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5 Basic Practices to Strengthen Your Employer-Employee Relationship
Your boss is a critical part of your everyday life. They have the authority to hire and fire, and they may dictate what work you do throughout the day. Because of this necessary and pivotal relationship, you want to have the best working partnership with your boss. Here are five ways to be the employee…
Read MoreTraveling Medical Social Worker | Oakland
To Apply for this Job Click Here Job Summary: Coordinates and facilitates the care of the patient population through effective collaboration and communication with the Interdisciplinary Care Transitions (ICT) team members. Follows patients throughout the continuum of care and ensures optimum utilization of resources, service delivery and compliance with external review agencies. Provides ongoing support…
Read MoreNew definition of Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA): Coding, auditing, and CDI professionals take note
By Brian Murphy The clinical definition of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is changing. CDI and coding professionals take notice. A recent article on Medscape (link below) says a forthcoming definition will “de-emphasize glucose from the diagnostic criteria for DKA, along with many other updates to the last statement on the topic, which was published 14 years…
Read MoreTraveling Licensed Medical Social Worker
To Apply for this Job Click Here 1. Performs high level triage of all patients, with focus on identifying those with complex psych-social or financial issues, placement needs and community service needs within 24 hours of admission. 2. Receives RN Care Manager referrals to social work based on identified Social Work Triggers (see SW Referral…
Read MoreUtilization Review Nurse | Coding Certified | Texas
To Apply for this Job Click Here A Norwood Partner, based in Houston, TX is seeking a Remote Denials Specialist to assist with a growing number of company-wide backlogged denials. UR Specialist Responsibilities Reviews and completes continuous daily work queue volume of denials. Most, if not all denials will be from post-acute care facilities. (mostly…
Read MoreThe time for risk adjustment coding, outpatient CDI is now
By Brian Murphy In my ACDIS days we launched the CCDS-O (outpatient) certification in 2017. The response, while positive, was not nearly the same as the CCDS (inpatient) received in 2009. In hindsight we were ahead of the curve. While risk adjustment was a concern, and a big one for some facilities, for others the…
Read MoreImprove outpatient CDI outcomes, risk adjustment metrics with Owl by Norwood
The cat is out of the bag—or more appropriately, the Owl has flown the coop. The team at Norwood has been working behind the scenes on a piece of assistive software, and we’re ready to give it flight. Owl by Norwood was born out of a need we saw while performing chart audits…
Read MoreBanner Health’s Jami Woebkenberg: Managing the Constant Changes of Modern Healthcare Delivery
“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” – John C. Maxwell It’s been said that there is no constant in life except for change. Jami Woebkenberg is proof. Jami is the Senior Director of HIM operations at Banner Health. Or at least, that’s her title now.…
Read MoreTop 10 strategies to land your first coding or CDI job
Brian Murphy I’m a newly-minted CPC-A, but every employer wants a CPC with a couple years of coding experience! What do I do? I’m an RN who wants to leave the bedside and get into CDI, but everyone wants a CCDS! I’m stuck…can you help!?! If these pleas sound familiar to you, well, it’s because…
Read MoreYou Need a Pediatric CDI Program – Here’s Why
By Brian Murphy The pediatric population is not just little adults. Not clinically, and not when it comes to CDI and coding. Think about the extended long lengths of stay in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) that can range from >128 days due to extreme prematurity, or occasionally up to 2 years, where…
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