Posts Tagged ‘off the record’

Listen to the full episode here: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/mQEUhXavSIb If you’ve ever been a member of ACDIS you’ve almost certainly encountered Dr. Trey LaCharite’. ACDIS advisory board member? Check. Regular columnist for CDI Journal? Check. Author of the CDI Field Guide to Denial Prevention and Audit Defense? Check. Speaker at the physician advisor pre-conference every year since…

Listen to the full episode here: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/S5y8KpFOKHb Listeners of Off the Record may recall our episodes on the OIG audit of severe malnutrition directed at North Carolina based Vidant, now ECU Health. Vidant/ECU won a landmark case against the OIG in large part because it had a multidisciplinary clinical and coding team in place to…

Listen to the full episode here: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/qadqA4R6mHb In 2009 ACDIS was growing. The association’s boot camps were taking off. We were at the point where we needed to hire our first full-time instructor and CDI educator. That person was Lynne Spryszak. Lynne had been in CDI since 2002 and volunteered as an inaugural ACDIS inaugural…

Listen to the episode here: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/hGVETlHd0Gb If you’re an aspiring medical coding professional and on LinkedIn, you might know my guest today. In fact, you probably do. She’s positively burst onto the scene. Not necessarily as a content expert dropping coding or clinical expertise (although that’s coming, to be sure), but someone who has documented…

By Brian Murphy On the new episode of Off the Record Dr. Nicole Fox offered up a terrific suggestion for setting up your new year for success. A reflective CDI department audit. Not a standard chart audit for query compliance and accuracy (though that’s part of it), but a person-to-person audit, with the goal of…

Listen to the full episode here: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/DciQHilcGGb Having worked in and around medical coding and CDI for almost 20 years, I can say for certain that few topics vex coders and CDI professionals more than the dreaded recertification process. Credential maintenance. CEUs. CEU fees. Conference CEU codes. Certificates. On and on. It’s a cottage industry…

The end of the year is a time to reflect, to look back on what we’ve accomplished and learned. And enjoy the time away from the office and have some fun. On today’s show I’m joined by couple of guests and friends from my home base at Norwood for remembrance, lessons learned, and some meaningful…

Generative AI in healthcare is … truly wild. A technology in bloom with little to no regulations, with all the messiness and breathless optimism that entails. The accuracy of these products including ChatGPT are a work in progress. As this podcast debuts ChatGPT outperformed humans on a mock version of the American Board of Psychiatry…

Technology. I’m of a mixed mind. Broadly, I think technology is a blessing for humanity. It saves lives. In my small corner of the world I interview guests from across the nation over Zoom, and deliver the final product via the magic of podcast. That may or may not be a blessing depending on your…

It’s often said that to be a good CDI or coding professional you have to roll up your sleeves and get clinical. If you code just what is explicitly documented you will miss opportunities; if you don’t understand A&P and pathophysiology, you will make mistakes. But what about those who take the opposite path? Katie…