By: Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP The best practice is to add any retrospective query response as an addendum to the health record. Although the goal of clinical documentation integrity…
adminJune 23, 2022
Learn about the specific outcomes of the emergency department pilot program during Dr. Timothy Brundage’s session at the ABQAURP Annual HCQ&PS Conference, “Optimizing Coordination Among Mid-Revenue Cycle Stakeholders,” on Friday,…
adminMay 13, 2022
By: Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP HACRP is designed to reduce rates of healthcare-associated infections Most clinical documentation improvement (CDI) professionals are aware of hospital-acquired conditions (HACs). In fact, reviewing…
adminApril 5, 2022
By: Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP “Upcoding” remains a common mechanism of improper payments. “Healthcare compliance is the process of following rules, regulations and laws that relate to healthcare…
adminMarch 22, 2022
By: Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP Do health information management (HIM) and clinical documentation integrity (CDI) professionals need a standard operational definition for “clinical documentation?” Put another way, should…
adminMarch 1, 2022
By: Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP As a former manager of clinical documentation integrity (CDI) and utilization review (UR) at an academic medical center, my focus was on understanding…
adminFebruary 9, 2022
Brundage Group is pleased to announce that Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDIP, has joined our team as Director of CDI, Case Management and Utilization Management. Described as a “visionary”…
adminDecember 6, 2021
By: Cynthia Tang, RHIA, CCS, Pinson&Tang In another unprecedented mid-year ICD-10 classification update, new COVID-19 related codes have been created effective January 1, 2021. The new COVID-19-related ICD-10-CM codes are:…
adminDecember 4, 2020
Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia (HCAP), and Why You Should Not Diagnose It By: Timothy Brundage, MD, CCDS, Medical Director & CEO of Brundage Group The diagnosis of Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia (HCAP) is clinically…
adminNovember 16, 2020
The SCCM and ESICM have published “Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for the Management of Septic Shock and Sepsis-associated Organ Dysfunction in Children” to provide guidance for clinicians caring for children with septic shock and other sepsis-associated organ dysfunction (not sepsis…
adminMarch 5, 2020
By: Pamela Bensen, MD, MS, FACEP Emergency departments (EDs), the US healthcare system “safety net”, are seeing sicker patients as the “less sick” are routed to offices and urgent care.…
adminJanuary 21, 2020
By Brian Murphy, director of ACDIS Provider/physician engagement (pick your synonymous term for the person who diagnoses and provides medical care) has always been a core function of CDI. CDI…
adminOctober 29, 2019
The health care industry continues to transition toward a value-based, pay-for-performance system, but there’s still confusion surrounding the different quality and value programs that have been introduced by CMS and…
adminOctober 24, 2019
By: Brett Hoggard, MD, CCDS, Chief Medical Officer, Brundage Group Documentation and coding myocardial infarction is a common pain point for CDI departments, caused by conflicting or incomplete documentation that…
adminOctober 17, 2019
Leading nationwide providers of documentation education and CDI join forces to offer inpatient, outpatient and quality improvement documentation education services St. Petersburg, Fla. (August 12, 2019) – Brundage Group today announces…
MeganAugust 12, 2019
The National Association of Healthcare Revenue Integrity (NAHRI) recently asked our medical director, Dr. Tim Brundage, for his insight on Medicare Advantage denials. Click to read the complete NAHRI Journal…
MeganApril 29, 2019
By: Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS, Brundage Group Physician Advisor DRG 853 Infectious and Parasitic Diseases with OR Procedure w/MCC is Under Attack! Be sure your operative…
MeganApril 10, 2019
By: Michael A. Salvatore, MD FACP CHCQM, Physician Advisor Suggestions for conducting peer-to-peer appeals for denials If you are wondering why you should read this if you think you are…
MeganApril 9, 2019
Let me ask you a question. Who is the most powerful person in the United States referable to medical terminology? Is it the most esteemed physician who edits the most…
MeganMarch 19, 2019
By: Dr. Timothy Brundage I just returned from the ACPA National Physician Advisor Conference where I met with physicians who truly care about providing support to their hospitals. As a…
SupportMarch 14, 2019
