With special guests Lara Faustino, RN, BSN, CCDS, a senior CDI specialist at Lifespan Corporate Services in Providence, Rhode Island, and Aimee Van Balen, RN, BSN, CCDS, a lead CDI specialist at Lifespan Corporate Services. Co-hosted by Melissa Varnavas, the associate editorial director for ACDIS 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).

This book re-envisions CDI programs’ role in addressing documentation for quality of care measures bringing in the expert advice of past-ACDIS Advisory Board member Deanne Wilk, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CCDS-O, CCS, and her colleague, Ashley Vahey, BSN, RN, CCDS. These authors have decades of experience in the CDI realm and extensive knowledge about the intricacies of government endeavors in their field. They provide case examples of how CDI can respond to changing initiatives and contribute sample policies, procedures, and queries that make this book a user-friendly, must-have addition to any CDI library. It covers not just diagnosis review and clarification, but how diagnoses affect hospital quality metrics and influence indirect revenues.

In the News links:

“News: OIG says hospitals overbilled Medicare $1 billion for severe malnutrition,” http://ow.ly/Oqru30r1uUl   

ACDIS update: 

Recognizing the 2020 ACDIS CDI Scholarship recipients, http://ow.ly/dRPm30r1uY5