As part of the first Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Juanita B. Seel, RN, CCDS, supervisor of documentation integrity at Greenville (SC) Hospital Center...
CDI specialists are in general optimistic about the growth of the profession, but not necessarily within their own departments; aren’t involved all that much in RAC defense; use CMI as their primary metric for success; and have found electronic queries beneficial, even though their hospitals are slow to adopt the new technology. Following is an overview of the survey results and Kennedy’s commentary.
JA Thomas expanded its CDI offerings to include the ED and other points of entry roughly two years ago, says Mel Tully, MSN, CCDS, senior...Read More »
Attached is CMS Transmittal 2246, which lists pending new, revised, and discontinued ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes for fiscal year (FY) 2012. CMS lists coding changes its web site on an annual basis. CDI...
Legible. Complete. Dated, timed, signed, and authenticated. That's what section 482.24 of the Medicare Conditions of Participation requires...Read More »
The attached PowerPoint was created by the CDI team at High Point (NC) Regional Health System as a teaching tool to help the group communicate the CDI roles and responsibilities to the nurse management team.
This attached powerpoint presentation is to instruct nurse managers in the purpose and benefits of clinical documentation improvement. This presentation is courtesy Janice Davis, RN, BA, CCDS, clinical documentation analyst for High Point Regional Health System.
