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Poll Archives
 
  • Do you review pediatric records?
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  • Do your physician advisors receive formal training?
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  • Do you track severity queries?
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  • 2014 ACDIS conference poll
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  • Are you using Computer Assisted Coding (CAC) as part of your CDI work flow or tool set?
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  • Does your CDI staff perform retrospective queries?
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  • Do you currently conduct 'yes'/'no' queries?
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  • Do you have a formal CDI specialist training program?
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  • Does your CDI/HIM program perform concurrent coding along with concurrent record reviews?
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  • Does your facility allow advance practice nurses to go on rounds?
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  • Does your CDI program concurrently review core measures?
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  • What tools do you use to capture data and work flow analysis?
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  • Are you planning on expanding your CDI staff?
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  • Which department houses your CDI program?
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  • How are you celebrating CDI Week?
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  • Are you relieved about the ICD-10 implementation delay?
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  • Multi-facility CDI programs: Do you have standardized policies, procedures, and education modules?
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  • Does your facility mandate physician education regarding CDI
  • Does your facility uses an outside vendor for second level Recovery Auditor appeals?
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  • UPDATE: How old is your CDI program?
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  • Where would you like the 2014 ACDIS Conference to be held?
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  • Does your CDI program conduct record reviews for ambulatory surgery?
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  • Is your CDI team involved in Recovery Audit reviews and/or denial management?
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  • Are you currently involved in EHR implementation?
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  • How often do CDI staff round with their medical teams?
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  • As a CDI professional, how prepared are you for ICD-10?
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  • 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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    Do you review pediatric records?
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