5 strategies to maximize CDI Impact

Comprehensive clinical documentation can significantly improve the quality and ROI of patient care initiatives. Some of the impact areas include case-mix index (CMI), revenue, physician and hospital admission risk profiling, medical necessity and supply, and recovery audit contractor and compliance. Regulations like Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are impelling the shift from quantity-based to value-based clinical documentation improvement (CDI). That being said, despite the intensive focus on CDI, many medical institutions are still largely dependent on manual systems and processes. A 2017 ACDIS CDI Week Surveyrevealed that more than 48% of the respondents do not use computer assisted technologies like computer-assisted coding (CAC) and Natural Learning Processing (NLP).