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Poll Archives
 
  • Do you have physicians who say, "Just tell me what to write?"
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  • 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 have physicians who say, "Just tell me what to write?"
    Yes, this happens frequently
    Yes, but it happens very rarely
    No, they would never do this
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