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CDI Strategies

CDI Strategies is a free bi-weekly e-mail resource for CDI specialists and Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS) members. CDI Strategies offers biweekly news on the latest coding changes and regulatory updates as well as tips for day to day program improvement and problem-solving.

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Issue 8, December 27, 2007

• News: CMS steps up its present-on-admission and hospital-acquired conditions training resources

  News: CMS steps up its present-on-admission and hospital-acquired conditions training resources

• Tip: Consider this top 10 list when training embedded case management staff as clinical documentation improvement specialists

  Tip: Consider this top 10 list when training embedded case management staff as clinical...

• Strategy: Follow these suggestions to help formulate compliant queries

  Strategy: Follow these suggestions to help formulate compliant queries

Issue 7, December 13, 2007

• News: Providers to implement 5010 HIPAA transactions by 2014, NCHICA and WEDI estimate

  News: Providers to implement 5010 HIPAA transactions by 2014, NCHICA and WEDI estimate

• Tip: Connect your coding, clinical documentation improvement staffs by establishing clear roles

  Tip: Connect your coding, clinical documentation improvement staffs by establishing clear roles

• Strategy: Provide proper training for case management, other embedded CDI staff

  Strategy: Provide proper training for case management, other embedded CDI staff

Issue 6, November 30, 2007

• News: CMS issues value-based purchasing program proposal

  News: CMS issues value-based purchasing program proposal

• Tip: Use Web-based resources to help get physicians on board with your CDI program

  Tip: Use Web-based resources to help get physicians on board with your CDI program

• News: CMS announces continued decline in improper payments

  News: CMS announces continued decline in improper payments

Issue 5, November 15, 2007

• News: Recovery Audit Contractors reined in

  News: Recovery Audit Contractors reined in

• Tip: Asking the right question can lead to the right answer

  Tip: Asking the right question can lead to the right answer

• Strategy: Put CDI benchmarks in yearly evaluations

  Strategy: Put CDI benchmarks in yearly evaluations

Issue 4, November 1, 2007

• News: Recovery Audit Contractor program to expand nationwide in March

  News: Recovery Audit Contractor program to expand nationwide in March

• Tip: Cut to the chase for effective queries

  Tip: Effective queries cut to the chase

• Strategy: Check the anesthesiology note for missed CCs/additional diagnoses

  Strategy: Check the anesthesiology note for missed CCs/additional diagnoses

Issue 3, October 18, 2007

• News: Behavioral offset for inpatient claims reduced under new legislation

  News brief: Behavioral offset reduced

• Best practice: The value of a real-time, concurrent review

  Physicians prefer to be queried concurrently (real-time, not after the record is complete and the...

• Tip: Use measurable results to get reluctant physicians on board

  Tip: Use measurable results to get reluctant physicians on board

• Get talking: Sign up for ACDIS and CDI Talk

  Get talking: Sign up for ACDIS and CDI Talk

Issue 2, October 4, 2007

• Present on admission indicator now in effect

  Present on admission indicator now in effect

• Tip: Teach physicians 'The three P's'

  Tip: Teach physicians 'The three P's'

• Tip: Keep your clinical documentation improvement department separate

  Keep your clinical documentation improvement department separate from other departments. It's a...

Issue 1, September 25, 2007

• Tip: Use technology to improve your CDI efforts

  Tip: Use technology to improve your CDI efforts

• Tip: Construct a clinical documentation improvement oversight committee

  Construct a clinical documentation improvement oversight committee

• Tip: Use POA examples to educate physicians

  Tip: Use POA examples to educate physicians

• Tip: Understand new CC categories under MS-DRGs

  Tip: Understand new CC categories under MS-DRGs