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Poll Archives
 
  • Does your facility support your conference attendance?
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  • CDI manager salary?
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  • Most respondents do not query physicians on ICD-10 related specificity requirements
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  • Update: How have physicians reacted to your CDI program and query requests?
  • What is highest on your CDI wish list for Santa?
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  • Are your queries part of the suspension process?
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  • Do HIM/coding staff follow up on outstanding, CDI staff generated clarifications/queries?
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  • Do you include items for ICD-10 specificity on physician queries now?
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  • Does your CDI program enable staff to work from home?
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  • Does your CDI staff work Monday through Friday?
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  • How much money do you budget for CDI training?
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  • What is the primary method you use to query physicians in your facility?
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  • Regarding the 2012 ACDIS conference, which level of session would you be most likely to attend?
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  • ICD-10 training and budgeting
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  • How many total years of professional experience do you have in healthcare (CDI, plus other)?
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  • Acute renal failure without support
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  • How long do you think it takes to achieve an
  • Do your CDI specialists work holidays?
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  • Crediting physician queries
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  • Do you generate your own CDI data reports or use a consultant/vendor?
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  • Update: Does your CDI program employ a physician advisor?
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  • Do you as a CDI program have access to and use your hospital's PEPPER report?
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  • Which of the following diagnoses are most prone to over reporting?
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  • What is your planned primary method/vehicle for ICD-10 training?
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  • What are your initial impressions of ICD-10?
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  • Do your CDI reviewers work from home?
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  • Do you assign CDI staff to cover your emergency department?
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  • How long is your training period for new CDI specialists?
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  • What is highest on your CDI wish list for Santa?
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  • How much ICD-9 coding knowledge do you expect your CDI staff to possess?
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  • Does your CDI department have productivity standards?
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  • Which nursing credential do you prefer for your CDI specialists?
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  • Update: Which type of professional(s) comprises the majority of your CDI program's chart reviewers?
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  • Update: Does your hospital use the 3M APR-DRG grouper for tracking severity?
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  • Do you review expired patients' charts for documentation improvement opportunities?
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  • Are you following the latest AHIMA physician query guidance?
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  • What is your level of access to CDI data and reports?
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  • Does your CDI program have written policies and procedures in place?
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  • What level of access do you have to risk of mortality/severity of illness data?
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  • What is your process when a working/concurrent DRG differs from the final billed DRG?
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  • Do verbal queries bother physicians in your facility?
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  • What is your process/policy for ensuring that physician queries are compliant (i.e., non-leading)?
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  • How well do your physicians document in the discharge summary?
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  • Updated: Are your query forms a permanent part of the medical record, or do you remove them?
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  • Do you provide CDI education for your psychiatrists?
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  • Do you provide CDI coverage on the weekends?
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  • Have you found electronic health records to be a help or a hindrance to your CDI duties?
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  • What is your opinion on CMS' proposal to reduce acute renal failure from an MCC to a CC?
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  • What do you find works best for getting physicians to provide good documentation?
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  • Do you think the newly-passed health care reform will impact the CDI profession?
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  • Do you assign working DRGs to cases?
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  • Do you feel significant financial pressures to perform?
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  • What are your typical working hours as a CDI specialist?
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  • Do you audit your CDI specialists queries?
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  • Do your physicians frequently document chest pain?
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  • Have you begun to receive any RAC medical record requests for complex review of MS-DRGs?
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  • Do you have an agreed-upon definition for common diagnoses?
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  • What are your CDI resolutions for the new year?
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  • As a CDI specialist/manager, what is your favorite part of the job?
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  • What do you least like about being a CDI specialist?
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  • Have a COW?
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  • Do you have physicians who say,
  • How long did it take you to get up to speed as a new CDI specialist?
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  • For your daily CDI activities, what is your most indispensable reference?
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  • Do you have a verbal query policy at your facility?
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  • How comfortable is your CDI department querying for/reporting complications of surgery?
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  • What penalties do you have for physicians who fail to respond to queries?
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  • As your program matures, has your query rate changed?
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  • How do you determine your CDI specialists' salaries?
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  • Update: Which professional does your hospital use for its CDI specialists?
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  • Physician accountability
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  • Are your surgeons reluctant to document acute blood loss anemia?
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  • Has the down economy affected your CDI department?
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  • Who do you use to perform quality audits on your CDI staff?
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  • What is your opinion on CMS' documentation and coding adjustment (DCA)?
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  • Do you find many query opportunities in your surgical unit?
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  • What do you wear on the job as a CDI specialist?
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  • Inpatient rehab and CDI
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  • How many years of experience do you require for new CDI hires?
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  • Initiating concurrent, non-verbal queries
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  • Does your CDI department use an APR-DRG grouper to track severity?
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  • How well do your physicians document encephalopathy?
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  • How do you keep up with the IPPS changes?
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  • How often do you provide formal education for physicians?
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  • Do you have access to Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM?
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  • How well do you understand ICD-9-CM coding?
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  • How does your program pay its physician advisor?
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  • Do you initiate queries that don't affect MS-DRG assignment/reimbursement?
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  • Written queries
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  • Do your physicians still document unspecified CHF?
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  • How do you track, trend, and analyze denials?
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  • Does your facility maintain two separate query policies for CDI and coding?
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  • Do your physicians still document urosepsis?
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  • When are you planning to start ICD-10 training?
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  • What future sites would you like to see for the annual ACDIS conference?
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  • For every 1 CDI specialist you employ, how many Medicare discharges do they review annually?
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  • Is your CDI program home-grown or consultant-based?
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  • What are your CDI coverage plans for Christmas Day?
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  • What trait do you feel is most important for a CDI specialist to possess?
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  • What is the focus of your CDI program?
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  • Do you have any physicians who refuse to participate in your CDI program?
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  • AHIMA query brief
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  • How many new cases (not reviews) do your CDI specialists review daily?
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  • What is your physician response rate to queries?
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  • How often do your working DRG assignments differ from the final, coded DRG?
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  • Are your physicians catching on to your CDI program?
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  • How would you describe the documentation of your surgeons/surgical department?
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  • How do you compare to CMS' anticipated MCC capture rate?
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  • Is your CDI program involved with Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) preparation?
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  • Does your CDI program employ a "physician champion" to help get other physicians involved?
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  • How would you describe the current state of your CDI program?
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  • Which types of patient cases do you review?
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  • Have your CDI program and processes gone electronic?
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  • Does your compliance department have input on your query forms and processes?
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  • Are your query forms a permanent part of the medical record, or do you remove them?
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  • Does your CDI staff also perform outpatient documentation review?
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  • Are your CDI specialists dedicated to CDI, or do they perform other functions?
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  • Why did you get into the CDI field?
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  • How have physicians reacted to your CDI program and query requests?
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  • Does your CDI staff use encoders as an informational tool?
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  • How are cases assigned to your CDI specialists?
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  • What diagnosis or diagnoses do your physicians most frequently fail to document properly?
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  • How would you describe your relationship between your CDI specialists and your HIM/coding staff?
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  • Who oversees your CDI department?
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  • How many cases do your CDI specialists review on a daily basis?
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  • How much of an operational impact are you experiencing under Medicare Severity DRGs?
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  • Are you planning to hire additional clinical documentation improvement staff?
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  • Do HIM/coding staff still perform physician queries in your hospital?
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  • How do you rate the quality of your physicians' clinical documentation?
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  • Which professional does your hosptial use for its clinical documentation improvement specialists?
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  • How long has your facility had a clinical documentation improvement program?
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    Does your facility support your conference attendance?
    Yes, it is paying for me and my team to attend.
    Yes, it pays for CDI team members to attend on a rotating basis (one or more staff get to go each year).
    Yes, it pays for the cost of the conference but does not reimburse us for room and board, travel costs.
    Yes, but only in granting us paid time to attend. We pay for conference attendance and travel ourselves.
    No, it only supports attendance for manager-level staff.
    No, it has cut travel and training budgets due to the economy.
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