The ACDIS Podcast

With special guests Katy Good, RN, RBS, CCS, CCDS, Training Materials Specialist for Enjoin CDI, and Fran Jurcak, MSN, RN, CCDS, Vice President of Clinical Affairs for Iodine Software. Both were contributors to the new query brief. Co-hosted by Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CDI Education Specialist for ACDIS.

To read Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice--2019 update in its entirety, please click here.

With special guests Ann Donnelly, RN, BSN, CCDS, manager of CDI for Ardent Health Services, Tulsa Region, Hillcrest Medical Center, and Darcy Watts, RN, CDI specialist with Hillcrest Medical Center. Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer, a full-time instructor for the CDI Boot Camps as well as a subject matter expert. 

To download the slides presented on today's program, please click here.

To view the article "AHRQ Analysis Finds Hospital-Acquired Conditions Declined By Nearly 1 Million from 2014-2017" as featured on In the News, please click here.

To nominate a colleague for the 2019 ACDIS Achievement Awards, please click here.

With special guest Abby Steelhammer, MBA, MHA, RN, director of clinical documentation excellence at Novant Health, a multi-facility system based in Winston-Salem and Charlotte, North Carolina.  Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer, a full-time instructor for the ACDIS CDI Boot Camps as well as a subject matter expert.

To learn more about the CDI Managment Essentials pre-conference event to the 12th annual ACDIS Conference as featured on today's show, please click here.

To view The Expanding Role of Clinical Documentation Improvement Programs in Research and Analytics as covered on In the News, please click here.

With special guests Tamara A. Hicks, RN, BSN, MHA, CCS, CCDS, ACM, the director of clinical documentation excellence (CDE) at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Yvonne Whitley RN, BSN, CPC, CRC, CDEO, the Manager for the Novant Health Ambulatory Clinical Documentation Improvement team. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, the CDI Education Director for ACDIS in Middleton, MA. 

To learn more about ACDIS' new CCDS-O certification, please click here.

With special guest James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, president of CDIMD-Physician Champions, a Nashville-based group of physicians, coders, and clinicians engaged nationwide as CDI physician advisors, ICD-10 medical informaticists, and DRG and HCC compliance advocates. Co-hosted by Melissa Varnavas, the Associate Editorial Director for ACDIS. 

To view the article "CMS releases rule on the risk adjusment program for the 2018 benefit year," please click here.

To view the article "3M to acquire M*Modal's Technology Business" as featured on In the News, please click here.

To review the categories for the 2019 ACDIS Achievement Awards or nominate a colleague, please click here.

After the show, Dr. Kennedy provided the following link, which provides a map of ICD-10 codes to HCCs. Please click here to access.

With special guests Katy Good, RN, RBS, CCS, CCDS, a Training Materials Specialist for Enjoin CDI, and Jeff Morris, RN, BSN, CCDS, the supervisor of CDI at the University of South Alabama Health System in Mobile. Both are ACDIS advisory board members, and were two of the authors who collaborated to write the ACDIS white paper "How to conduct a medical record review."

To download the white paper discussed on this show, please click here (requires ACDIS membership).

To read "Florida, California lead Leapfrog's Top Hospital List" as covered on In the News, please click here.

With special guest Sheila M. Duhon, MBA, RN, CCDS, A-CCRN, CCS, the national director of clinical documentation improvement (CDI) education at Tenet Healthcare in Dallas, Texas. Co-hosted by ACDIS editor Linnea Archibald.

To view $188.1M Providence Health alleged upcoding lawsuit set for potential dismissal in January as featured on In the News, please click here.

To learn more about or order a copy of CDI Workbook: Investigating Complex Cases and Formulating Queries as featured on ACDIS Update, please click here.

With special guest Karen Elmore, RN, BSN, CCDS, documentation quality coordinator for BJC Healthcare in St. Louis, Missouri. Elmore serves on the ACDIS Chapter Advisory Board and is a chapter leader for the ACDIS Heart of Missouri local chapter. Co-hosted by Melissa Varnavas, the Associate Editorial Director for ACDIS. 

To read CMS Delays E/M Payment Changes to 2021 in Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule as covered on In the News, please click here.

With special guest Brian Cui, RHIA, CDIP, an HIM professional with more than 15 years of experience in a variety of roles in health information technology, clinical documentation improvement, adult education, and social media marketing. Brian is founder of Medical Coding Geek, and the creator and host of Not Elsewhere Classified, a podcast created to share stories and insights from professionals in the medical coding, HIM, and CDI community. Co-hosted by Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CDI Education Specialist for ACDIS.

Check out the Not Elsewhere Classified podcast here.

To view "Proposed changes to Medicare Advantage audits could put insurers on the hook for billions" as covered on In the News, please click here.

With special guest Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, principal of Pinson and Tang in Chattanooga, TN. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, the CDI Education Director for ACDIS in Middleton, MA. 

To download the slides presented on today's program, please click here. Source: GLIM Criteria for the Diagnosis of Malnutrition: A Consensus Report From the Global Clinical Nutrition Community (in press) online pre-publication.

To view the article "UHC adopts sepsis-3 criteria" as presented on In the News, please click here.