Education

by Lisa Dias, MD, and P. Roger DeVersa, MD, MBA, FHM, CPE, CDIP, CHDA, CCS
Residency training typically serves as physicians’ first...Read More »

The amount of energy it takes to stay up-to-date on all the relevant CDI news can be overwhelming. It can take valuable time away from daily...Read More »

Chocolate is a great motivator. Many a CDI professional has earned inroads with providers by rewarding good documentation habits through appealing...Read More »

“When I first started getting interested in the topic of CDI, […] I asked my more senior colleagues and got blank stares,” says Joseph A....Read More »

by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS
Many newer CDI specialists are trained on encoders right off the bat, often never using a DRG Expert...Read More »

Where there are documentation holes, denials flood in.

“It’s just amazing how infrequently the doctor is even aware of the denial. If they...Read More »

by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
In the past, I have advised CDI professionals against promoting the monetary benefits...Read More »

by Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CDIP

Dear Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialist,

I remember my first day as a...Read More »

CDI specialists reviewing outpatient observation records are “essentially playing the clinical detective,” said Seth Kirschner,...Read More »

Did you come to the 10^th annual ACDIS conference this year? Did you sadly miss it and wish you could have gone? Well, every year, the...Read More »