CDI Solution Center
Many organizations acknowledge that having a CDI program cover both inpatient and outpatient settings improves the accuracy of risk scores and reporting of diagnoses while mitigating risks associated with inaccurate coding (i.e. overcoding or undercoding). Our solutions, backed by the Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists, will help you optimize your existing CDI program while positioning your CDI program for success.
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CCDS Certification
Signify your profiency in the core skills and knowledge required of CDI specialists by taking the The Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS) exam.
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2022 ACDIS Pocket Guide
Protect your agency from mistakes that could lead to claim denials and revenue loss with the 2022 ACDIS Pocket Guide & new, interactive Online Tool!
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Staying Engaged: ACDIS Presents Virtual Education and Community
Practicing social distancing is a must during the COVID-19 outbreak. But that doesn’t mean education and networking must stop. In fact, they’re more important than ever.
Join us for Staying Engaged: ACDIS Presents Virtual Education and Community. Earn valuable CEUs, receive a part of the same educational sessions you’ve come to love at the ACDIS conference, and network with your colleagues and peers in a series of moderated chats—all from the easy-to-use conference app, that you’ve come to know and love!
CDI and Quality Care Measures Boot Camp Online
This intensive course designed for CDI departments/programs looking to move to the next level of CDI—not just diagnosis review and clarification, but how diagnoses impact hospital quality metrics and influence indirect revenues.
Students will learn the why and how of reviewing complex cases involving Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) and hospital-acquired infections (HAI), and gain measurable strategies for improving their hospital profiles and positively influencing their facility’s value-based incentive payments.
Clinical Documentation Integrity Boot Camp Online
ACDIS’ premier training for CDI specialists this course defines the role of CDI specialists and provides comprehensive training on their responsibilities.
Improve your CDI know-how with ACDIS-endorsed best practices for medical record review and compliant physician querying.
Clinical Validation Boot Camp Online
Mastering Clinical Concepts in CDI Boot Camp Online focuses on key pathophysiological concepts that will improve the quality of clinical indicators used in provider queries.
The practical material covered enhances critical thinking skills and prepares CDI specialists to be leaders in their field and communicate collaboratively with providers.
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CDI for Outpatient Boot Camp
The CDI for Outpatient Boot Camp Online is the new go-to source for outpatient CDI professionals and those seeking to begin a CDI program in the outpatient arena.
This course defines the role of CDI specialists in the outpatient arena, provides comprehensive training, and applies ACDIS-endorsed best practices.
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CCDS Exam Prep Class Online
The CCDS Exam Prep Class Online is a convenient addition to your preparation for the CCDS exam and your efforts to advance in your professional career. It provides an overview of CDI knowledge and test-taking skills. Adding this course to your CCDS preparation will allow you to tackle the exam with confidence.
Students have direct access to our nationally recognized instructors through the Ask the Expert feature, where they can ask questions and ensure understanding.
Risk Adjustment Documentation and Coding Boot Camp Online
The Risk Adjustment Documentation and Coding Boot Camp will take you all the way from tackling the concept of risk adjustment and how it is calculated, to focusing on specific diagnoses and conditions that may affect overall risk scores.
It will ensure you understand all facets of risk adjustment and help you position your organization to make the best decisions.
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2022 ACDIS Pocket Guide & New, Interactive Online Tool
Protect your agency from mistakes that could lead to claim denials and revenue loss with the 2022 ACDIS Pocket Guide & new, interactive Online Tool!
ACDIS is back at it again and has built an all new online tool to help you easily access all the query, coding and documentation resources you love and need every day - anywhere, any time!
And as a special introductory offer - all 2022 ACDIS Pocket Guide book purchasers will receive access to the new online tool FOR FREE!
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ACDIS Apprenticeship Program
The Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS) is proud to launch a new certificate program for those seeking to enter the clinical documentation profession.
The ACDIS CDI Apprenticeship is a certificate program comprised of foundational CDI education paired with a review of core compliance and ethical principles. Candidates who pass the final exam receive a certificate of CDI foundational training and are allowed to designate themselves as an ACDIS-Approved CDI Apprentice.
Learn more about the apprenticeship program
Clinical Documentation Essentials for Hospital Resident
This library of 17 courses provides residents and other hospital-based physicians with a thorough grounding in the basics of compliant clinical documentation. Learners will be able to describe how complete and accurate documentation ensures an accurate depiction of a patient’s severity of illness.
After completing all courses in the library, learners will have the opportunity to take a final examination and earn a certificate of documentation integrity along with CME and CCDS credits.
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Clinical Documentation Essentials for the Hospital Provider
This library of 17 courses provides hospital-based physicians with a thorough grounding in the basics of compliant clinical documentation. Learners will be able to describe how complete and accurate documentation ensures an accurate depiction of a patient’s severity of illness.
After completing all courses in the library, learners will have the opportunity to take a final examination and earn a certificate of documentation integrity along with CME and CCDS credits.
Learn more about the clinical documentation essentials course
eLearning Library
All Access eLearning Library: CDI
Our All-Access Learning Libraries are a convenient, flexible way for all your employees to get training when and where they need it. Whether you have someone brand new to CDI or a team of veterans, this library is designed to provide continued instruction for all levels in your CDI department - all while providing critical CEUs.
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CDI Competency Assessment
The CDI Competency Assessment is the perfect tool to self-assess your CDI educational needs, or to evaluate your staff to pinpoint areas where they will benefit from education.
This 100-question, easy-to-use online assessment tool is divided into four sections:
- General knowledge
- Clinical content
- ICD-10-PCS
- Quality and risk adjustment
The Assessment is offered singly or as a three-pack.
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JustCoding.com
JustCoding will keep your skills sharp, test your coding knowledge, and help you stay abreast of CMS changes whether you’re working as a hospital inpatient or outpatient coder or in a physician practice.
Let our team break down anatomy, terminology, documentation rules, and coding guidelines for settings that report ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, CPT®, and HCPCS codes.
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CCDS Certification
As clinical documentation specialists have expanded their work outside the walls of the acute-care hospital setting to include clinics, surgery centers, and physician practices The Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS) credentialing program was developed to accommodate the rapid expansion of CDI.
Applicants who pass the exam receive the designation CCDS, which signifies proficiency in the core skills and knowledge bases required of CDI.
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2022 ACDIS Pocket Guide
The perfect resource for CDI professionals who need a day-to-day reference when conducting their medical record reviews.
Conditions covered in the 2022 ACDIS Pocket Guide are organized by their Major Diagnostic Category (MDC), and then in alphabetical order.
CDI Workbook: Investigating Complex Cases and Formulating Queries (CDICSQ)
Reviewing cases and formulating queries is the central work of a clinical documentation improvement (CDI) professional. However, different chart and different review focus change the way a CDI specialist conducts their review.
This workbook provides CDI professionals, at all levels, with the practical tools and tips needed to hone their CDI reviews and skills. The workbook will walk professionals through in-depth case scenarios covering the most frequent documentation trouble spots and examining theoretical records through the lens of different programmatic focal points.
The Provider Query Toolkit: A Guide to Compliant Practices (PQH4)
Queries are the hallmark of CDI specialists’ work, no matter the setting or programmatic structure. Along with query compliance updates and coding guidelines, the introduction of electronic health records (EHR), clinical validation denials, quality programs, and more have made following industry and compliance standards more difficult.
The Provider Query Toolkit: A Guide to Compliant Practices provides a comprehensive analysis of query guidelines and easy-to-follow strategies to improve query processes.
Pediatric CDI: Building Blocks for Success
The disease processes for children don’t always mimic those typically seen in the adult population. CDI reviews to pediatric units or children’s hospitals is a challenge—but every challenge is an opportunity.
This is a must have resource for both new CDI specialists and experienced CDI specialists who have pediatric chart review added to their responsibilities.
Pediatric CDI Essential Skills
Children's conditions can be much more complex than those faced by adults and they come with very specific diagnositic evaluations that CDI professionals need to know in order to query effectively, win physician's trust, and ensure the appropriate story about their patients' care gets captured accurately.
This course will help explain the differences in coding rules related to common childhood diagnoses,identify clinical indicators related to specific diseases, help develop processes for effective medical record review processes for pediatric populations, and create compliant queries related to conditions frequently seen in children's hospitals
Learn more about the essential skills needed for pediatric CDI
CDI Specialist's Complete Training Guide
The CDI Specialist’s Complete Training Guide, Second Edition, serves as a bridge between your new CDI specialists’ first day on the job and their first effective steps reviewing records.
The Complete Training Guide is the perfect resource for CDI program managers to help new CDI professionals understand their roles and responsibilities.
The CDI Specialist's Guide to Evaluation and Management
As organizations expand into outpatient/physician practices and other settings, a firm understanding of evaluation & management (E/M) code assignment factors will help ensure not only physician support for CDI efforts on the inpatient side but also medical record and reimbursement accuracy on the outpatient side.
The CDI Specialist's Guide to Evaluation and Management training guide outlines the essentials of the E/M coding system and provides analysis and insight into what aspects of CDI efforts work best to engage physicians and improve outcomes related to the complexities of E/M.
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CDI Field Guide to Denials Prevention and Audit Defense
The world of denials prevention and audit defense is filled with a host of watchdog agencies—an alphabet soup of acronyms—to audit claims and take back funds for inappropriate submissions. Your hospital must work to protect its reimbursement, and your CDI program can help.
This CDI field guide provides step-by-step tools to help your program improve its denials prevention efforts.
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CCDS Exam Study Guide
For those planning to sit for the CCDS exam, the CCDS Exam Study Guide is their resource to help prepare.
The guide aligns the testing content domains chronologically, matching how CDI professionals obtain core skill sets. It provides targeted information regarding test objectives prepared by the CCDS Certification Committee, letting candidates focus their time on areas of CDI practice with which they are least familiar.
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ACDIS Membership
ACDIS is the nation's only association dedicated to the CDI profession. It is a community of CDI professionals who share the latest tips, tools, and strategies to implement successful CDI programs and achieve professional growth.
Some of the benefits afforded to members include:
- Advocacy and leadership from a peer-elected ACDIS Advisory Board, including peer-reviewed Position Papers and White Papers.
- Weekly tips, news, and strategies in our e-newsletter, CDI Strategies
- In-depth news and regulatory information, clinically-based articles, case studies on building successful CDI programs, and membership profiles in our bi-monthly electronic journal, the CDI Journal
- An opportunity to network with peers and colleagues in the ACDIS Forum
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Custom CDI Training at Your Facility
Bring our instructors to your facility to teach one of our existing Boot Camps or a program customized for you. Your team gets best-in-class compliance education and the benefit of exclusive facetime with renown experts. Save on travel and deliver the convenience of onsite training.
We also offer custom virtual CDI training to serve a remote working environment.
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When you partner with leading healthcare experts for training and guidance around your top strategic challenges, you can expect to see stronger metrics and take fewer financial risks. Membership includes year-round, full-team access to recognized instructors, customized virtual education, and specially curated resources. Members get top-grade insight and information without having to worry about the meter running.
