CDI & Revenue Cycle

Revenue Cycle

• VIDEO! Social Determinants of Health Where Are We Now? (March 15, 2023)
• VIDEO! Risk Adjustment Basics (April 24, 2023)
• VIDEO! Medical Coding's Connection to Risk Adjustment (June 26, 2023)
• The Current State of AI in Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management (July 31)
• VIDEO! Denials Management Process (October 2, 2023) 
• VIDEO! Autonomous Medical Coding (December 11, 2023)
• Essential Elements of Charge Protection Language (January 29, 2024)
• VIDEO! Coding Denials Workflow (February 12, 2024)
• VIDEO! Demystifying MS-DRGs (July 9, 2024) 
• Navigating the Complex Landscape of Payer Policy Changes (July 29, 2024)
  
  

CDI

• Revamping the Outpatient Setting with Clinical Documentation Improvement (September 26, 2017)
  
• Passionate about CDI with Glenn Krauss (November 20, 2017)
  
• Important CDI and Coding Updates (November 28, 2017)
• Documentation that Serves a Purpose (January 22, 2018)
  
• The Coder as the Last, Best Hope for the Right DRG (February 6, 2018)
• Q&A: Clinical Validation of Sepsis (February 13, 2018)
• Maximizing Resources for ICD-10 Coding Audits (March 7, 2018) 
• Book Excerpt: What are the Recovery Auditors Anyway? (March 12, 2018)
• Tip: Using ED Documentation That’s Absent from the Discharge Summary (April 23, 2018)
• Key Performance Indicators- Revisited (May 15, 2018)
• Putting a Proper Perspective on "Proper" Documentation (May 21, 2018)
• Hospital Operating Income Falls for Two-Thirds of Health Systems (December 3, 2018)
  
• When is it appropriate to use other clinicians' documentation to record a diagnosis? (February 26, 2019)
  
• Book Excerpt: Creating a Career Ladder (April 17, 2019)
• Juggling Definitions for Sepsis (June 17, 2019)
  
• Book Excerpt: Outpatient CDI Reporting Structure (February 24, 2020) 
• Book Excerpt: Etiology of Pediatric Respiratory Conditions  (July 7, 2020)
• Sepsis Education and Denial Prevention & the CDI Tip Sheet (September 14, 2021)
• A Typical Day for a CDI Specialist (December 26, 2022)
• Alert! Missing Clinical Documentation (October 30, 2023)
  
  
  

Denials

• Documentation Improvement-A Strategy for Denials Avoidance (August 15, 2017)
• Eight Top Denial Focus Areas for Auditors (September 20, 2017)
• Staunching The Tide of Medical Necessity Denials (June 4, 2018) 
• Common Inpatient DRG Validation Coding Denials in 2020  (October 19, 2020)
• Using Coding Denials to your Advantage – Coder Education (October 23, 2020)