By Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC

It’s easy to pick on physicians. As CDI specialists, we joke about the physician who still writes “urospesis” in the record, or the provider who consistently answers queries with “unable to be determined.”

Sure, it can be frustrating, but, over the years, I have been privileged to work with a number of excellent physicians. Physicians who set high standards, care about patient outcomes, work long hours and make sacrifices their patients would never know about. Over the years, I met many, many physicians who were open to learning and willing to share their knowledge with others.

Tomorrow, might I suggest that you and your CDI teams take a moment to offer treats and thank you notes to your physicians.

We need our ACDIS members to take a few minutes out of your day for a very important duty: Voting in the next group of advisory board members.

Every now and again, someone asks us what they need to do to recertify their CCDS credential. It’s easy!

CDI professionals need to think outside the box when it comes to physician engagement.

This week we want to share a few tips for chapters holding quarterly meetings.

An OIG audit of the University of Michigan Health System revealed noncompliance with four types of inpatient claims, including those associated with the billing of high-severity-level MS-DRGs.

Q: Can the physician be queried as to why the patient is taking methadone or suboxone? If yes, how would it be presented?

Sixty-one percent of the selected claims for outpatient physical therapy services did not comply with Medicare medical necessity, coding, and/or documentation requirements.

Johns Hopkins researchers say they’ve made a breakthrough in understanding the biology behind pulmonary HTN.