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Antarctic Anecdotes: The real-life adventure of ex-CDI physician advisor Howard Rodenberg
There comes a point in our life when we all need to take an adventure. For most that means a vacation to an exotic faraway…
June 7, 2023
How do you handle “unable to determine” query responses?
By Brian Murphy Unable to determine. Love it? Hate it? Or do you understand why it must (usually) be offered as a query option? The…
Major Depressive Disorder: Report accurately, and shore up the medical record against denial
By Brian Murphy Large caveat to the following: I am not a clinician, nor a coder, though my work frequently brushes up to clinical coding….
Back from ACDIS, talking value-based care and outpatient CDI with Jason Jobes
By Brian Murphy After a short break that was not really a break because we were on the road at ACDIS 2023 we’re back with…
Foreign Medical Graduates: Finding a Clinical Calling, and a Career, Through CDI
By Brian Murphy Sulaiman Rasheed (“King Solomon,” or “Sully,” as his colleagues call him) took the long way to CDI. Literally and figuratively. A native…