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 2011 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 Topics covered include: * Focus DRGs: 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: Commonly missed MCCs, CCs, and the clinical indicators to help identify them in the record. * Coding Guidelines: 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: Comprehensive clinical and coding information regarding 18 important diagnoses such as acute renal failure, pneumonia, and sepsis. * MS-DRG Table: A list of the current 747 DRGs and their relative weights for quick reference. Buy copies for your entire CDI team Earn special discounts when you buy multiple copies of The 2011 CDI Pocket Guide. Be sure every member of your team has this valuable guide. Call 800/650-6787 to learn more.

CDI Pocket Guide 2011

Medical Books

Tang, Cynthia L.

Pinson, Richard D., M.D.

Medicine

HCPro, Inc.

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

The 2013 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 patients 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. Whats Inside * A portable and easy reference to keep DRGs and diagnoses at your finger tips * The latest coding guidelines and relative weights so you dont report inaccurate codes * Clinical indicators to help identify documentation opportunities and formulate an appropriate query to the physician * 2013 DRG table with relative weights, GMLOS, and transfer DRG indicator Also included in this edition is an ICD-10 overview and a preview of the ICD-10 changes in each of the individual sections.

CDI Pocket Guide 2013

Pinson, Richard D.

Administration & Medicine Economics

The 2014 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 Richard D. Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS and Cynthia L. Tang, RHIA, CCS, 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. The new 2014 edition includes critical new updates from the 2014 IPPS Final Rule, and additional ICD-10 documentation tips to ensure you are ready for the national Oct. 1, 2014 compliance deadline. Also new in this edition: New criteria for recognizing Acute Respiratory Failure Documentation strategies to address ICD-10 challenges New Key References with clinical indicators to support queries for HIV/AIDS, pericarditis, acute myocardial infarction APR-DRG overview and its impact on severity and mortality Strategies to effectively identify and capture diagnoses that impact APR-DRGs Severity levels for the key MCCs and CCs and a listing of other important diagnoses that impact APR-DRGs Updates to the Hospital Acquired Conditions (HAC) list with new section on Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) Tips to improve Pay for Performance and Value-Based Purchasing metrics What's inside: A portable, tabbed, and easy reference to keep DRGs and diagnoses at your finger tips The latest coding guidelines and relative weights so you don t report inaccurate codes Newly formatted and expanded DRG Tips section that includes DRGs with clinical and treatment indicators for alternate and optimal DRG assignment Clinical indicators to help identify documentation opportunities and formulate an appropriate query to the physician 2014 DRG table with relative weights, GMLOS, and transfer DRG indicator

CDI Pocket Guide 2014

The 2015 CDI Pocket Guide helps you take clinical findings and dig deeper, looking for additional details such as medications and other conditions to develop the most accurate picture of the patient's condition.Authors Richard D. Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, and Cynthia L. Tang, RHIA, CCS, draw on more than 50 years' cumulative experience and provide the clinical coding authority to strengthen patient care quality and resource utilization, and improve compliance and reimbursement.
The 2015 edition of this CDI best-seller includes critical updates from the 2015 IPPS final rule and additional ICD-10 documentation tips to ensure you are ready for the national compliance deadline of October 1, 2015. Also new this year is additional information on value-based purchasing (VBP) and how CDI specialists can incorporate VBP initiatives into their health record reviews.
What's new in this edition:
 - Addition of pediatric clinical indicators and diagnostic criteria - New key references for shock, neoplasms, pneumothorax, functional quadriplegia, cystic fibrosis, asthma, intellectual disability, and more - Standardized key references format for each clinical topic: definition, diagnostic criteria, treatment, references, coding and documentation challenges, and ICD-10 - Content expansion of MCC/CC section to comorbid conditions, including secondary diagnoses with a high-impact focus on MS-DRG and APR-DRG, quality, and CMS pay-for-performance outcome metrics - Strategies for integrating CMS pay-for-performance initiatives into your CDI program - Expanded reference citations of medical literature and other authoritative sources to support diagnostic definitions and criteria - Exclusive Web-based resource center with detailed supplemental information and updates for all CDI Pocket Guide customers - Expanded and updated ICD-10 tips and strategies
What's Inside
 - A portable, tabbed, and easy reference to keep DRGs and diagnoses at your finger tips - The latest coding guidelines and relative weights so you don't report inaccurate codes - Newly formatted and expanded DRG Tips section that includes DRGs with clinical and treatment indicators for alternate and optimal DRG assignment - Strategically placed ICD-10 Tips to start getting additional specificity now, in advance of the October 1, 2015 compliance deadline - Clinical indicators to help identify documentation opportunities and formulate an appropriate query to the physician - 2015 DRG table with relative weights, GMLOS, and transfer DRG indicator
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 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

The CDI Pocket Guide 2015 (Pinson, CDI Pocket Guide)

Allied Health Professions

Nursing Professional Development Competencies: Tools to Evaluate and Enhance Educational Practice is the only resource of its kind that provides nursing professional development specialists with a framework for career development and competence.Barbara A. Brunt's research has developed more than 70 evidence-based competencies, aligned with the Scope and Standards of Practice and Benner's novice to expert continuum.
 Staff educators can use this book in numerous ways from personal development, such as measuring and demonstrating proficiency, to training new educators. With more than 70 evidence-based competencies, educators can immediately download the tools and incorporate them into practice.
 Nursing Professional Development Competencies provides nursing professional development specialists with tools to move through the nursing professional development role and develop expertise.
 Table of Contents
 Section I Competency Assessment and Validation
 Chapter 1: Overview of the Competency Movement Chapter 2: Developing Educator Competencies Chapter 3: Additional Competencies Based on Revised Standards Chapter 4: Benner's Novice to Expert Continuum Chapter 5: Creating a Framework for Educator Competencies Chapter 6: Methods to Validate Competencies
 Section II Applications of the Competencies to Practice
 Chapter 7: Self-Assessment Tool Chapter 8: Developing Criterion-Based Position Descriptions Chapter 9: Orientations for New Educators Chapter 10: Performance Appraisals, Peer Review, and Professional Development Plans Chapter 11: Creating a Professional Portfolio Chapter 12: Developing Cultural Competence Chapter 13: Understanding Generational Differences
 Section III Future Trends
 Chapter 14: Applications of the Competencies Chapter 15: Educational Implications of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report
 Appendix: Nursing Professional Development Competency Tool
 After reading this book, you should be able to:
 - Discuss the evolvement of nursing professional development competencies - Describe the use of Benner's novice to expert theory as applied to nursing professional development competencies - Recognize the role of ANA's Scope and Standards of Practice for Nursing Professional Development in creating nursing professional development competencies - Apply the nursing professional development competencies in professional practice
 Nursing Contact Hours:
 HCPro is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
 This educational activity for 2.7 nursing contact hours is provided by HCPro.
 Nursing contact hours for this activity are valid from August 2014 until August 2016.
 HCPro is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing to provide 3.2 nursing contact hours. California BRN Provider #CEP 14494.
 Disclosure Statement:
 The planners, presenters/authors, and contributors of this CNE activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with any commercial companies pertaining to this activity.

Nursing Professional Development Competencies: Tools to Evaluate and Enhance Educational Practice

Brunt, Barbara A.

Nursing

<div>The Resident's Orientation Handbook: Guide to the ACGME Requirements, Third Edition Vicki L. Hamm ACGME answers at your fingertips! Here is all the key information your residents need to know about the ACGME requirements in a concise, easy-to-reference handbook.&nbsp; Residents will find tips and explanations of the ACGME standards related to:&nbsp; <ul> <li>Milestones and core competencies</li> <li>Duty hours</li> <li>Evaluations</li> <li>Information security and privacy</li> <li>Documentation &nbsp;</li> </ul> This handbook will become residents' go-to resource as they learn the ins and outs of your residency program's requirements. This is the perfect handbook to distribute to residents as they enter your program. What's New? New sections: <ul> <li>Title IX</li> <li>Privacy and Information Security</li> <li>Due Process</li> </ul> Updated to include: <ul> <li>Next Accreditation System</li> <li>Milestones</li> <li>Clinical Competency Committee</li> </ul> </div>

The Resident’s Orientation Handbook: Guide to the Acgme Requirements

Hamm, Vicki L.

Verify and Comply, Sixth Edition, includes both credentialing and medical staff standards and regulations in one easy-to-navigate manual, giving MSPs one book that answers all their accreditation questions. This expanded guide includes ambulatory care, acute care, and managed care standards for the most popular regulators and accreditors: CMS, The Joint Commission, NCQA, DNV, HFAP, and AAAHC. From initial appointment to reappointment to medical staff functions, these standards are side by side in an easy-to-read grid. Use this resource to study for the NAMSS certification exam and to keep up to date with regulators and accreditors credentialing and medical staff standards.
 This book will help you: Understand the differences between the stages of the credentialing process: appointment, reappointment, and ongoing assessment Determine which verifications are necessary to obtain in the credentialing process Discuss the importance of having an organized medical staff Define the structure of your medical staff and its responsibilities Determine the appropriate area in medical staff governance documentation to include specific items required by accreditation standards and regulatory requirements Explain your medical staff s involvement in organizational leadership functions
 This book includes downloadable resources that will help your organization ensure compliance through all the steps of the credentialing and medical staff membership process.

Verify and Comply: Credentialing and Medical Staff Standards Crosswalk

Matzka, Kathy

Cairns, Carol S.

Shared Governance, Third Edition, is your complete shared governance toolkit and has more than 60 helpful tools, from policies and procedures, to decision-making aids, to templates for councils. Plus, the book incorporates the most widely used and respected tools for measuring the impact of shared governance programs on the quality of care: the Index of Professional Governance and Index of Professional Nursing Governance, created by the book's coauthor and founder of the Forum for Shared Governance Robert G. Hess, Jr.
This book will help you change your culture for the better and begin a true method of shared governance. If previous attempts at shared governance have stalled or failed, the new edition provides helpful strategies for changing course and building a truly effective model.
Take a look at the Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: The Concept Behind Shared Governance Chapter 2: Design a Structure to Support Shared Governance Chapter 3: Build a Structure to Support Shared Governance Chapter 4: Building the Unit-Level Practice Council for Implementing Shared Governance at Points of Service Chapter 5: Implementing Shared Governance at the Organization Level: Roles of Stakeholders Chapter 6: Measure Your Process and Outcomes at the Point of Service (Bob Hess) Chapter 7: Case Studies: A Snapshot of Shared Governance and Best Practices Chapter 8: Relationships for Excellence: ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (Sylvia Samuelson) Chapter 9: Tips for Success Chapter 10: An International Clearinghouse for Research and Resources (Bob Hess) Chapter 11: Conclusions and Recommendations: Where Do We Go From Here? Bibliography Appendix A: Index of Professional Nursing Governance (IPNG) Appendix B: Index of Professional Governance (IPG)
Benefits:
- Provides a professional, proven framework for developing and supporting effective shared governance within the healthcare environment - Includes a core collection of important tools, best practices, processes, adaptable forms, and training materials for designing, implementing, and evaluating shared governance within the organization - Features updated and comprehensive information related to new research, the latest IPNG and IPG measurement tools, and information on the interprofessional and interdisciplinary approaches to shared governance - Will help your organization enhance staff autonomy and increase competency and accountability - Will help you build a collaborative relationship among units and departments

Shared Governance: A Practical Approach to Transforming Interprofessional Healthcare

Swihart, Diana, Ph.D.

Hess, Robert G., Jr., R.n., Ph.d.

Medicare coverage for maintenance therapy in the post-acute world has been unclear, causing improper documentation and reimbursement for home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities (SNF), outpatient therapy, and rehabilitation facilities.
This guide contains both regulatory information and analysis as well as hands-on, practical advice for care and documentation. Advice given is specific to each post-acute care setting. The guide also features tips from consultants, tools from the Center of Medicare Advocacy and information from CMS, downloadable materials, and sample forms and worksheets for easy comprehension of information.
This book ensures Medicare coverage by:
- Guiding providers through the documentation process related to maintenance therapy - Explaining how to document at key instances - Tips for defending medical necessity - Providing practical advice and information on how to identify patients who require maintenance therapy, conduct patient assessments, and write goals
After reading this book, readers will be able to:
- Understand the proper use of maintenance therapy - Identify when and how to document care as maintenance therapy - Determine which patients qualify as needing maintenance therapy - Plan and assess care of maintenance therapy patients - Document maintenance therapy with confidence - Use the tools provided to help with comprehension and documentation
Table of Contents
Foreword Chapter 1: Are We Providing Maintenance Therapy? Chapter 2: Defining Key Terms Chapter 3: Understanding the Regulations Chapter 4: Identifying Maintenance Patients Chapter 5: Assessments and the Maintenance Patient Chapter 6: Goals Capturing the Impact of Therapy Chapter 7: Care Planning With a Maintenance Focus Chapter 8: Defending Medical Necessity on Routine Visits Chapter 9: Reassessments in Maintenance Cases Mandatory and Clinically Driven Chapter 10: Tips for Identifying Maintenance Patients Chapter 11: Tips for Qualified Therapists Chapter 12: Tips for the Quality Review Process Appendices
This book contains tips, tools, and resources on: 
- Identification of maintenance candidates - Goal writing strategies - Compliance with reassessment expectations - Care planning for the maintenance patient
Also included:
- Documentation auditing tool
Judith Stein, a lead attorney on the Jimmo v. Sebelius case and executive director for the Center for Medicare Advocacy, has provided tools to help agencies better use maintenance therapy in their practice, including a Self-Help Packets for Home Health Care/Outpatient/Nursing Appeals, Including 'Improvement Standard' Denials.
A specific scenario is used throughout to demonstrate key concepts. To enhance knowledge application, a practice scenario is provided as well.

The Post-acute Care Guide to Maintenance Therapy

Krafft, Cindy

Kornetti, Diana L.

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