The Physician Advisor s Guide to Clinical Documentation Improvement

This book will:

- Provide job descriptions and sample roles and responsibilities for CDI physician advisors
- Outline the importance of CDI efforts in specific relation to the needs and expectations of physicians
- Highlight documentation improvement focus areas by Major Diagnostic Category
- Review government initiatives and claims denial patterns, providing physician advisors concrete tools to sway physician documentation

Table of Contents

- CDI Foundation
- Risk and severity adjustments
- Payment models
- Coding foundations
- Query compliance
- Clinical conditions
- Regulatory oversight/auditors
- CDI program monitoring