The ACDIS Podcast

With special guests Deanne Wilk, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CCDS-O, CCS, manager of CDI, and Ashley Vahey, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDI team lead at Penn State Health in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, a CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts.

Featured solution:

Today’s featured ACDIS solution is our new book, CDI and Quality Reporting: How Healthcare Record Review Can Improve Outcomes (http://ow.ly/uj5Y30qYCQJ).

Quality of care is an emerging area of expansion for CDI programs and professionals. As healthcare continues to move toward value-based purchasing and pay-for-performance reimbursement models, CDI efforts can target some of the risky diagnoses associated with those quality-of-care measures to ensure that ongoing CDI reviews don’t negatively affect quality scores of various types. CDI specialists and departments can use this comprehensive guide to advance to the next level of CDI—not just diagnosis review and clarification but how diagnoses affect hospital quality metrics and influence indirect revenues.

This book re-envisions CDI programs’ role in addressing documentation for quality of care measures bringing in the expert advice of Wilk and Vahey. These authors have decades of experience in the CDI realm and extensive knowledge about the intricacies of government endeavors in their field. They’ll provide case examples of how CDI can respond to changing initiatives and will contribute sample policies, procedures, and queries that will make this book a user-friendly, must-have addition to any CDI library

In the News links:

“News: 20% of patients identifying their own EHR errors, research shows,” http://ow.ly/K64y30qYCRW  

ACDIS Update: 

"Note from ACDIS: Addressing a public health crisis," http://ow.ly/o10w30qYD1l

With special guests Erica E. Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS, president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., in Beachwood, Ohio, and a member of the ACDIS Advisory Board. Co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, a CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts.

Featured solution:

Today’s featured ACDIS solution are the ACDIS Clinical Documentation Integrity Boot Camps (http://ow.ly/XEVZ30qT8ct).

Right now, you get access to our best-in-class CDI Boot Camps, in a convenient, practical, online format, for 50% off the listed price. ACDIS is extending this special discount in recognition that CDI professionals have been hard-hit personally and financially from the COVID-19 crisis.

Choose from the following boot camp types:

Clinical Documentation Integrity Boot Camp

CCDS Exam Prep Class

CDI and Quality Care Measures

Risk Adjustment Documentation and Coding Boot Camp

CDI for Outpatient Boot Camp

Please use code CDIONLINE when checking out at HCMarketplace to obtain your discount.

In the News links:

“News: 20% of patients identifying their own EHR errors, research shows:” http://ow.ly/unzd30qVt2i

With special guests Jennifer Cavagnac, CCDS, the assistant director of CDI at Baystate Health System in Springfield, Massachusetts, Nageshwar Jonnalagadda, MD, MPH, FACP, FHM, a hospitalist and physician advisor at Baystate Medical Center, Marisa MacClary, co-founder of Artifact Health, Inc. Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, a CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts.

Featured solution:

Today’s featured ACDIS solution are the ACDIS Clinical Documentation Integrity Boot Camps (http://ow.ly/XEVZ30qT8ct).

Right now, you get access to our best-in-class CDI Boot Camps, in a convenient, practical, online format, for 50% off the listed price. ACDIS is extending this special discount in recognition that CDI professionals have been hard-hit personally and financially from the COVID-19 crisis.

Choose from the following boot camp types:

Clinical Documentation Integrity Boot Camp

CCDS Exam Prep Class

CDI and Quality Care Measures

Risk Adjustment Documentation and Coding Boot Camp

CDI for Outpatient Boot Camp

Please use code CDIONLINE when checking out at HCMarketplace to obtain your discount.

In the News links:

“News: OIG audit finds Ohio hospital owes millions in outpayments:” http://ow.ly/leEb30qT8c4

ACDIS update links:

“2021 IPPS proposed rule bears stamp of the ACDIS Regulatory Committee:” http://ow.ly/GKYy30qT8br

With special guest William E. Haik, MD, FACCP, CDIP, director of DRG Review, Inc., and co-host Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts.

Featured solution:

Practicing social distancing is a must during the COVID-19 outbreak. But that doesn’t mean education and networking must stop. In fact, they’re more important than ever.

Please join us June 17-19 for Staying Engaged: ACDIS Presents Virtual Education and Community. Earn valuable CEUs, receive a part of the same educational sessions you’ve come to love at the ACDIS conference, and network with your colleagues and peers in a series of moderated chats—all from the easy-to-use conference app, that you’ve come to know and love!

Attendees of this one-of-a-kind event will receive ongoing access to all educational sessions, and the opportunity to network long after the event ends through ongoing app access. Learn, stay in touch with the CDI community, and help support your professional association—all in one convenient, easy-to-use package.

Resources mentioned during the show:

“Diagnosis and treatment of adults with community-acquired pneumonia: An official clinical practice guideline of the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America,” American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

“Physicians: Review new community-associated pneumonia guidelines for 2020,” by William Haik, MD, FCCP, CDIP. You can reach Dr. Haik at [email protected].

In the News links:

“News: FY 2021 IPPS proposed rule includes 600 code changes, 3.1% pay increase for acute care hospitals,” from CDI Strategies

“News: AHA continues fight against CMS price transparency, star ratings on hold,” from CDI Strategies

“Hospitals balk as CMS doubles down on price transparency,” from HealthcareDive

ACDIS update links:

May Quarterly Membership Conference Call recording

With special guest Jugna Shah, MPH, CHRI, the president and founder of Nimitt Consulting, Inc., and co-host Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, the CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts.

Featured solution:

Practicing social distancing is a must during the COVID-19 outbreak. But that doesn’t mean education and networking must stop. In fact, they’re more important than ever.

Please join us June 17-19 for Staying Engaged: ACDIS Presents Virtual Education and Community. Earn valuable CEUs, receive a part of the same educational sessions you’ve come to love at the ACDIS conference, and network with your colleagues and peers in a series of moderated chats—all from the easy-to-use conference app, that you’ve come to know and love!

Attendees of this one-of-a-kind event will receive ongoing access to all educational sessions, and the opportunity to network long after the event ends through ongoing app access. Learn, stay in touch with the CDI community, and help support your professional association—all in one convenient, easy-to-use package.

In the News links:

“News: FY 2021 IPPS proposed rule includes 600 code changes, 3.1% pay increase for acute care hospitals”

ACDIS update links:

Quarterly Membership Conference call, Thursday, May 21

With special guest Timothy N. Brundage, MD, CCDS, medical director of the Brundage Group and former ACDIS advisory board member, and co-host Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, a CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts.

Featured solution:

Practicing social distancing is a must during the COVID-19 outbreak. But that doesn’t mean education and networking must stop. In fact, they’re more important than ever.

Please join us June 17-19 for Staying Engaged: ACDIS Presents Virtual Education and Community. Earn valuable CEUs, get educated, and network with your colleagues and peers in a series of moderated chats—all from the easy-to-use conference app, that you’ve come to know and love!

Attendees of this one-of-a-kind event will receive ongoing access to all educational sessions, and the opportunity to network long after the event ends through ongoing app access. Learn, stay in touch with the CDI community, and help support your professional association—all in one convenient, easy-to-use package.

ACDIS update link:

Download the May/June 2020 edition of the CDI Journal

In the news links:

“Will life and medicine go back to normal after COVID-19?” by Milton Packer, MD, in MedPage Today

Resources shared by Dr. Brundage following the show:

Documentation and coding tip sheet for COVID-19

COVID-19 documentation essentials webinar

With special guest Christopher Petrilli, MD, SFHM, assistant professor for the department of medicine and the clinical lead of value-based management at NYU Langone Health in Manhattan, and co-host Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CDIP, CCDS, a CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts.

Featured solution:

Practicing social distancing is a must during the COVID-19 outbreak. But that doesn’t mean education and networking must stop. In fact, they’re more important than ever.

Please join us June 17-19 for Staying Engaged: ACDIS Presents Virtual Education and Community. Earn valuable CEUs, receive a part of the same educational sessions you’ve come to love at the ACDIS conference, and network with your colleagues and peers in a series of moderated chats—all from the easy-to-use conference app, that you’ve come to know and love!

Attendees of this one-of-a-kind event will receive ongoing access to all educational sessions, and the opportunity to network long after the event ends through ongoing app access. Learn, stay in touch with the CDI community, and help support your professional association—all in one convenient, easy-to-use package.

ACDIS update link:

COVID-19 impact survey

“Hybrid engagement model: Orlando Health, NYU Langone offer flexible approaches,” ACDIS case study from the Provider Engagement Series

In the news links:

“Almost half of med practices furloughing staff, 1 in 5 have layoffs: Survey” from Medscape

With special guest Deborah Jones, MSN, RN, the director of CDI at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a large academic medical center affiliated with Harvard Medical school in Boston, and co-host Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts.

Resources mentioned during the show:

U.S. News & World Report 2019-2020 Best Hospital and Conditions Ratings

A Modification of the Elixhauser Comorbidity Measures Into a Point System for Hospital Death Using Administrative Data

In the News links:

“News: Medicare Advantage plans get 1.66% payment increase in 2021” from CDI Strategies

“Pandemic delays federal probe into Medicare Advantage health plans” from Kaiser Health News

ACDIS update links:

"Note from the ACDIS Editor: Staying sane while working from home" from CDI Strategies

Working from home conversation on the ACDIS Facebook page

With special guests James Fee, MD, CCS, CCDS, the chief medical officer at Enjoin in Eads, Tennesee, and Shannon Wyatt, a clinical informatics analyst II at Enjoin, and co-host Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CDIP, CCDS, a CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts.

ACDIS update link:

The third and final case study in the ACDIS Advisory Board’s Provider Engagement Series

With special guest Cesar Limjoco, MD, the chief medical officer of T-Medicus LLC, and co-host Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts.

Resources mentioned during the show:

“Secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and severe sepsis/system inflammatory response syndrome/multiorgan dysfunction syndrome/macrophage activation syndrome shar common intermediate phenotypes on a spectrum of inflammation,” from Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, volume 10, issue 3

Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting supplement regarding COVID-19 coding

Dr. Limjoco’s article on mitigating COVID-19 documentation confusion

Dr. Limjoco’s article on hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis

ACDIS update links:

Note from ACDIS: Open note to the CDI community—how can we help you?