Guest Post: Physician collaboration: Identifying the keys to success?

June 27, 2011
CDI Blog - Volume 4, Issue 29
ACDIS Guidance, Physician Queries

by Donald A. Butler

Over and over again in CDI Talk, at the ACDIS conference, local chapters, anywhere two CDI professionals have...Read More »

Tip: Oregon QIO posts physician query policy

June 23, 2011
CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 13
Physician Queries, Quality & Regulatory

While the bulk of discussion regarding how to ethically and responsibly submit queries to physicians revolves around releases from the American...Read More »

Guest Post: Query questions: When should you not query?

June 9, 2011
CDI Blog - Volume 4, Issue 27
ACDIS Guidance, Physician Queries

by Robert S. Gold, MD

I recently attended the annual meeting of the ACDIS in Orlando where I heard a variety of perspectives...Read More »

Q&A: Keeping electronic query copies

May 26, 2011
CDI Blog - Volume 4, Issue 23
Ask ACDIS, Physician Queries

Q: Our program does not typically include query information as part of the medical record. If the physician responds to a...Read More »

Q&A: Determining factors for query rate increases

May 12, 2011
CDI Blog - Volume 4, Issue 22
Ask ACDIS, Physician Queries

Q: I have heard that some facilities have seen their number of generated queries actually increasing rather than...Read More »

2011 Conference: Physician Queries: An Effective and Compliant Method for Success

April 13, 2011
Conference Materials
Physician Queries, Education

Attached is the powerpoint presentation Physician Queries: An Effective and Compliant Method for Success by Andrew Rothschild, MD, MS, MPH, FAAP, CCDS. ♦ Note that this includes the updated slides presented live at the conference.

2011 Conference: Dealing with Difficult Physicians and Thorny Query Situations

April 13, 2011
Conference Materials
Physician Queries, Education

Attached is the powerpoint presentation Dealing with Difficult Physicians and Thorny Query Situations by Pamela P. Bensen, MD, MS, FACEP, CEO of Medical Education Programs, Inc., Buffalo Junction, VA. 
 

Nine tips to help improve physician queries

April 1, 2011
CDI Strategies - Volume 9, Issue 6
Physician Queries

CDI specialists and their coder counterparts may pose hundreds-even thousands-of queries throughout their careers. One thing remains constant;...Read More »

Ask ACDIS: Know when to query for postop acute respiratory failure

April 1, 2011
CDI Journal - Volume 5, Issue 2
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding, Physician Queries, Quality & Regulatory

Q: Are there any coding guidelines/definitions regarding code 518.5 (Pulmonary insufficiency following trauma and surgery) vs. the use of 518.81 (...Read More »

Take a closer look when reviewing lung cancer charts

April 1, 2011
CDI Journal - Volume 5, Issue 2
Clinical & Coding, Physician Queries

by Helen Walker, MD

CDI specialists should know what to look for when reviewing cancer admissions in order to capture the true...Read More »

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