This 200+ page pocket manual helps CDI and coding professionals focus on the most common high-volume, high-yield opportunities to improve clinical documentation, coding, and DRG assignment. The 2011 CDI Pocket Guide helps you take clinical findings and dig deeper, and look for additional details such as medications and other conditions to develop the most accurate picture of the patient's condition. Authors Dr. Richard Pinson and Cynthia Tang draw on more than fifty years cumulative experience and provide the clinical coding authority to strengthen patient care quality and resource utilization, and improve compliance and reimbursement. Benefits * Time saving quick and easy reference to DRGs and diagnoses at your finger tips means you don't have to stop to do an internet search * Durable, portable, designed to be carried on the floor * Updated with latest coding guidelines and relative weights so you don t report inaccurate codes * Clinical indicators help you identify documentation opportunities and formulate an appropriate query to the physician Topics covered include: * Focus DRGs: A list of more than 50 DRGs, which have a high likelihood of another principal diagnosis, CC/MCC, or procedure. Also includes quality and resource management indicators that provide tips for better patient care and resource management, as well as RAC alerts. * MCC/CC List: Commonly missed MCCs, CCs, and the clinical indicators to help identify them in the record. * Coding Guidelines: Guidance to select the correct principal diagnosis based on the definition of the principal diagnosis or sequencing of coequal or interrelated diagnoses according to the Official ICD-9-CM Guidelines for Coding and Reporting. * Key References: Comprehensive clinical and coding information regarding 18 important diagnoses such as acute renal failure, pneumonia, and sepsis. * MS-DRG Table: A list of the current 747 DRGs and their relative weights for quick reference. Buy copies for your entire CDI team Earn special discounts when you buy multiple copies of The 2011 CDI Pocket Guide. Be sure every member of your team has this valuable guide. Call 800/650-6787 to learn more.

CDI Pocket Guide 2011

Medical Books

Tang, Cynthia L.

Pinson, Richard D., M.D.

Medicine

HCPro, Inc.

The 2014 CDI Pocket Guide helps you take clinical findings and dig deeper, and look for additional details such as medications and other conditions to develop the most accurate picture of the patient's condition. Authors Richard D. Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS and Cynthia L. Tang, RHIA, CCS, draw on more than fifty years' cumulative experience and provide the clinical coding authority to strengthen patient care quality and resource utilization, and improve compliance and reimbursement. The new 2014 edition includes critical new updates from the 2014 IPPS Final Rule, and additional ICD-10 documentation tips to ensure you are ready for the national Oct. 1, 2014 compliance deadline. Also new in this edition: New criteria for recognizing Acute Respiratory Failure Documentation strategies to address ICD-10 challenges New Key References with clinical indicators to support queries for HIV/AIDS, pericarditis, acute myocardial infarction APR-DRG overview and its impact on severity and mortality Strategies to effectively identify and capture diagnoses that impact APR-DRGs Severity levels for the key MCCs and CCs and a listing of other important diagnoses that impact APR-DRGs Updates to the Hospital Acquired Conditions (HAC) list with new section on Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) Tips to improve Pay for Performance and Value-Based Purchasing metrics What's inside: A portable, tabbed, and easy reference to keep DRGs and diagnoses at your finger tips The latest coding guidelines and relative weights so you don t report inaccurate codes Newly formatted and expanded DRG Tips section that includes DRGs with clinical and treatment indicators for alternate and optimal DRG assignment Clinical indicators to help identify documentation opportunities and formulate an appropriate query to the physician 2014 DRG table with relative weights, GMLOS, and transfer DRG indicator

CDI Pocket Guide 2014

Administration & Medicine Economics

The 2015 CDI Pocket Guide helps you take clinical findings and dig deeper, looking for additional details such as medications and other conditions to develop the most accurate picture of the patient's condition.Authors Richard D. Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, and Cynthia L. Tang, RHIA, CCS, draw on more than 50 years' cumulative experience and provide the clinical coding authority to strengthen patient care quality and resource utilization, and improve compliance and reimbursement.
The 2015 edition of this CDI best-seller includes critical updates from the 2015 IPPS final rule and additional ICD-10 documentation tips to ensure you are ready for the national compliance deadline of October 1, 2015. Also new this year is additional information on value-based purchasing (VBP) and how CDI specialists can incorporate VBP initiatives into their health record reviews.
What's new in this edition:
 - Addition of pediatric clinical indicators and diagnostic criteria - New key references for shock, neoplasms, pneumothorax, functional quadriplegia, cystic fibrosis, asthma, intellectual disability, and more - Standardized key references format for each clinical topic: definition, diagnostic criteria, treatment, references, coding and documentation challenges, and ICD-10 - Content expansion of MCC/CC section to comorbid conditions, including secondary diagnoses with a high-impact focus on MS-DRG and APR-DRG, quality, and CMS pay-for-performance outcome metrics - Strategies for integrating CMS pay-for-performance initiatives into your CDI program - Expanded reference citations of medical literature and other authoritative sources to support diagnostic definitions and criteria - Exclusive Web-based resource center with detailed supplemental information and updates for all CDI Pocket Guide customers - Expanded and updated ICD-10 tips and strategies
What's Inside
 - A portable, tabbed, and easy reference to keep DRGs and diagnoses at your finger tips - The latest coding guidelines and relative weights so you don't report inaccurate codes - Newly formatted and expanded DRG Tips section that includes DRGs with clinical and treatment indicators for alternate and optimal DRG assignment - Strategically placed ICD-10 Tips to start getting additional specificity now, in advance of the October 1, 2015 compliance deadline - Clinical indicators to help identify documentation opportunities and formulate an appropriate query to the physician - 2015 DRG table with relative weights, GMLOS, and transfer DRG indicator
Testimonials
 My CDI Pocket Guide is an invaluable tool! I reference it daily in my reviews, writing queries and educating physicians regarding documentation opportunities. I would be lost without it! 
 Norma B., Clinical Documentation Specialist, Bay Medical Center
 The CDI Pocket Guide is a practical, portable reference that the CDS can carry in his/her pocket and easily reference while reviewing the record on the Patient Care unit versus having to carry cumbersome ICD Coding books to the units with stickies and notes throughout the coding books. 
 Cindy Z., Corporate HIM Director, Yale New Haven Hospital
 An essential tool for our documentation specialists and coders each section provides the clinical criteria needed to recognize documentation improvement opportunities in the medical record! 
 Karen S., HIM Director, Nanticoke Hospital

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