Membership Update: New tools, 4th Quarter CDI Journal posted
CDI Strategies, October 13, 2011
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The October edition of the CDI Journal has been posted. This issue includes:
- ACDIS Director Brian Murphy discusses how the first CDI Week celebrations made history.
- Richard D. Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, offers tips for how to query successfully for severe malnutrition.
- Back to school: Two CDI managers offer lessons for providing CDI education to physicians.
- Training tips A–Z: We’ve compiled a list of helpful reminders on how to get physicians engaged in your CDI efforts. It’s all here, from A to Z.
- Jonathan Elion, MD, FACC, provides tips to assess your CDI program baseline metrics.
- Lynne Spryszak, RN, CCDS, CPC-A, offers ideas for how to incorporate radiology findings into record analysis.
- While most CDI specialists stick close to home, a new field of traveling CDI staff is emerging. Maxim’s Steven Robinson, MS, PA-O, RN, CPUR, explains how it works.
There are a number of new materials available in the Forms & Tools Library for ACDIS members, including:
- A new “shelf” in the library specifically for ICD-10 training, preparation, and queries. ACDIS members can expect more tools, training materials, and sample queries to be posted in the near future. If your program has materials that you’d like to share please e-mail mvarnavas@cdiassociation.com with a brief description explaining the item and how it was created. Currently available on this shelf are:
- An education poster regarding intracerebral hemorrhage
- An ICD-10-PCS crossword puzzle
- An ICD-10 preparation checklist
- Multiple new additions to our physician education materials shelf, including:
- A revenue cycle flow chart
- Tri-fold physician documentation tip sheet
- Heart failure handout
- Sample mortality letter
- New spreadsheets and checklists added to the policies and procedures materials include
- An Excel spread sheet containing FY 2012 MS-DRGs with the national base rate
- Length of stay, patient problem list worksheet
- New sample queries, including
- Diabetes type and status
- Signs and symptoms
- Staging for chronic renal failure
- Unspecified chest pain
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