Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) Basics Course

Clinical documentation is widely recognized as the foundation for better patient outcomes, compliant coding, and timely reimbursement. Proper documentation is also essential for correct, quality reporting under value-based care and MACRA’s various quality payment programs.

Over the past decade, clinical documentation improvement (CDI) departments have been established in hospitals and health systems to assess and improve documentation quality. The physician office is now shifting to be included in this clinical documentation focus and rather than being reactive, you need to be proactive so that you continue to meet filing reimbursements and shift to new methodologies. As organizations now expand their CDI programs into outpatient settings and across all payers, the need for trained clinical documentation improvement professionals continues to grow.