While the new category of clinical documentation improvement specialist started before recovery audit contractors came on the scene, CDI specialists can help hospitals guard against RAC recoupment, ...
These days, clinical documentation improvement is on everyone’s mind. As hospital’s focus on ramping up documentation to prepare for ICD-10, the demand for CDI specialists continues to grow. In fact, ...
Clinical coding is a process by which descriptions of diseases, injuries or procedures are assigned a numeric or alphanumeric designation. Coding provides a mechanism for standardizing the recording ...