Talk Ten Tuesdays is devoting the month of February to this critically important topic. It is asked to perform its signature task some 100,000
Predicting coding patterns using the HCC risk scores can be a valuable endeavor. EDITOR’S NOTE: Longtime RACmonitor contributing correspondent Frank Cohen, a senior healthcare analyst,
New guidelines from the AMA provide the groundwork for physicians to follow in accurately capturing their medical decision-making (MDM), which includes their clinical judgment and
New changes are coming for reporting obstetrics. “OB (obstetrics) CDI (clinical documentation integrity) will never be the same,” according to Dr. James S. Kennedy, president
New workflow manages DRG mismatches. Last week on Talk Ten Tuesdays, Lidiya Ter-Markarova, CEO of Innova Revenue Group, discussed a new process that reduces the
Workflow increases productivity, while proving itself to be successful in reconciling DRG mismatches. When asking many clinical documentation improvement specialists (CDISs) what they dislike most
Ultimately, a CDI program is only as good as how you use the data. Data can be a powerful tool. It is important to remember
CDI and coding professionals should consider the totality of the record when determining if a diagnosis is reportable. Some diagnoses can be validated with diagnostic
Diagnosis without supporting the judgment of the physician’s documentation is the phenomenon of nakedness. A recent Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists/American Health Information Management
AHIMA released its CDI Practice Brief Monday. At Yom Kippur services, I found myself thinking about the question Dr. Ronald Hirsch posed to me the
The updated guidelines were developed jointly by AHIMA and ACDIS. The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), in collaboration with Simplify Compliance’s Association of Clinical
A four-part series on PSIs is being produced by ICD10monitor and Talk Ten Tuesdays in cooperation with ChristianaCare. I bet some of you reading this
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