CDIP Domain 2: Leadership Questions and Answers 100% Correct!

AHIMA - ANSWER-American Health Information Management Association ACDIS - ANSWER-Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists IDT - ANSWER-Interdisciplinary Team LOS - ANSWER-Length of Stay The RHIT, RHIA or CCS should have how many years of inpatient coding experience before becoming a CDI specialist? - ANSWER-at least 3-5 years Hospitalists - ANSWER-Physicians whose primary professional focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients Timeframes for completion of queries should be included in - ANSWER-the programs policies Physician Champions - ANSWER-Providers who are very engaged with the CDI program and understand and believe in the value of participating in a program that promotes specificity and consistency in documentation in the medical record Physician Advisor - ANSWER-Valuable resource who can help answer any clinical questions for the CDI specialist before writing a query, and will help ensure that the queries a brand new CDI specialist writes are as clinically accurate as possible. Query response expectations are up to the discretion of - ANSWER-the facility Retrospective Queries - ANSWER-Queries that are written post-discharge CDI Toolkit - ANSWER-provides information for establishing a CDI program Policies and procedures should be in what type of format for easy reference? - ANSWER-Written MS-DRG - ANSWER-Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Related Groups SOI - ANSWER-Severity of Illness ROM