This 200+ page pocket manual helps CDI and coding professionals focus on the most common high-volume, high-yield opportunities to improve clinical documentation, coding, and DRG assignment. The 2012 CDI Pocket Guide helps you take clinical findings and dig deeper, and look for additional details such as medications and other conditions to develop the most accurate picture of the patient's condition. Authors Dr. Richard Pinson and Cynthia Tang draw on more than fifty years cumulative experience and provide the clinical coding authority to strengthen patient care quality and resource utilization, and improve compliance and reimbursement. Benefits: * Time saving quick and easy reference to DRGs and diagnoses at your finger tips means you don't have to stop to do an internet search * Durable, portable, designed to be carried on the floor * Updated with latest coding guidelines and relative weights so you don t report inaccurate codes * Clinical indicators help you identify documentation opportunities and formulate an appropriate query to the physician Table of Contents * Focus DRG o A list of more than 50 DRGs, which have a high likelihood of another principal diagnosis, CC/MCC, or procedure. Also includes quality and resource management indicators that provide tips for better patient care and resource management, as well as RAC alerts. * MCC/CC List o Commonly missed MCCs, CCs, and the clinical indicators to help identify them in the record. * Coding Guidelines o Guidance to select the correct principal diagnosis based on the definition of the principal diagnosis or sequencing of coequal or interrelated diagnoses according to the Official ICD-9-CM Guidelines for Coding and Reporting. * Key References o Comprehensive clinical and coding information regarding 18 important diagnoses such as acute renal failure, pneumonia, and sepsis. * MS-DRG Table o A list of the current 747 DRGs and their relative weights for quick reference. What's New: The 2012 CDI Pocket Guide has been updated with the FY 2012 MS-DRGs, and now comes with an additional downloadable PDF copy. New to this edition is an ICD-10 overview and a preview of the expected ICD-10 changes that impact the CDI process.

2012 CDI Pocket Guide

Richard D. Pinson

HCPro, Inc.

The 2014 CDI Pocket Guide

HCPro

2021 Acdis Outpatient Pocket Guide

Medical Books

Allied Health Professions

Keep vital information at your fingertips with the new 2020 edition of the #1 best-selling authoritative CDI Pocket Guide. The CDI Pocket Guide by authors Dr. Richard Pinson and Cynthia Tang, now in its 13th edition, is the original and STILL the best resource for coding and clinical documentation improvement and available to order now. For over ten years, the CDI Pocket Guide has been the essential, go-to resource for anyone involved in clinical documentation improvement - don't be without it! - Testimonials - My CDI Pocket Guide is an invaluable tool! I reference it daily in my reviews, writing queries and educating physicians regarding documentation opportunities. I would be lost without it! Norma B., Clinical Documentation Specialist, Bay Medical Center The CDI Pocket Guide is a practical, portable reference that the CDS can carry in his/her pocket and easily reference while reviewing the record on the Patient Care unit versus having to carry cumbersome ICD Coding books to the units with stickies and notes throughout the coding books. Cindy Z., Corporate HIM Director, Yale New Haven Hospital An essential tool for our documentation specialists and coders each section provides the clinical criteria needed to recognize documentation improvement opportunities in the medical record! Karen S., HIM Director, Nanticoke Hospital

2020 CDI Pocket Guide

Cynthia L. Tang

Pinson&Tang

From the authors of the best-selling CDI Pocket Guide comes the first definitive reference guide for outpatient CDI. This third edition published in 2020 of the Outpatient CDI Pocket Guide: Focusing on HCCs features an easy to understand approach, boiling HCCs down to a few basic principles which, when mastered, make them a breeze. Authors Richard Pinson and Cynthia Tang explain how HCCs affect both providers and payers and clarify the chief considerations in outpatient reimbursement, documentation, and coding guidelines. Let the latest edition of the Outpatient CDI Pocket Guide show you how to master HCCs. You will benefit from this guide if you are a CDI or coding specialist, risk adjustment auditor, nurse, or physician who seeks to: Focus on areas of greatest impact as you expand your CDI program to the outpatient setting, improve capture of HCC diagnoses that will optimize hospital and physician risk adjustments for value-based payments, or increase risk adjustment factor scores for Medicare Advantage health plans. Ensure your organization’s outpatient coding practices are compliant and meet clinical validation and documentation requirements. This book is your reference guide to steer you through outpatient CDI and HCCs.

Outpatient CDI Pocket Guide: Focusing on HCCs

Keep vital information at your fingertips with the 2021 edition of the #1 best-selling authoritative CDI Pocket Guide. The CDI Pocket Guide by authors Dr. Richard Pinson and Cynthia Tang, now in its 14th edition, is the original and STILL the best resource for coding and clinical documentation integrity. Each year, the authors research, revise, and clarify the content to update the original CDI Pocket Guide. They capture significant changes in clinical diagnostic standards, ICD-10 codes, Official Coding Guidelines, Coding Clinic, and compliance issues and accommodate useful feedback from readers. They also provide the wisdom of their experience as consultants helping hospitals sculpt their documentation and coding practices to their needs. Each CDI Pocket Guide customer will also receive our in-depth, interactive webinars that will keep you informed and further enhance your knowledge and skills. For over a decade, the CDI Pocket Guide has been the essential, go-to resource for anyone involved in coding and CDI – don’t be without it! Note: The 2022 CDI Pocket Guide will be available in late October 2021.

2021 CDI Pocket Guide®

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