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Case Study: Boosting Revenue and Efficiency Through CDI​

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Medical Coding 101: Your Essential Guide to Types, Importance & 2025 Trends

In today’s complex healthcare landscape, medical coding is the foundation of a healthcare organization’s financial health, ensuring accurate billing, proper reimbursement, and high-quality patient care. From translating clinical documentation into standardized codes to ensuring compliance and audit readiness, coding plays a pivotal role in revenue cycle management.  This comprehensive guide offers healthcare providers with a high-level, expert-backed overview of medical coding fundamentals, common challenges, and emerging trends shaping 2025 and beyond, including key types like inpatient, outpatient, emergency and risk adjustment coding. What is Medical Coding? The Foundation of the Healthcare Revenue Cycle Medical coding is translating medical documentation from

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CDI in Physician Offices: The Time is Now

Clinical documentation improvement is the process of ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of patient documentation, which effectively tells a unique story. This story is conveyed through structured coded data. In the physician’s office, code assignment is completed by the physician. The advancement of electronic health records (EHRs) has allowed physicians the flexibility to perform these functions. While this sounds great, it often eliminates any interaction between CDI specialists and coders at the time of coding. In addition, CDI and coding have been primarily considered inpatient acute care functions. This elimination or rare interaction between a physician, CDI specialists, and coders

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Physician Documentation & Mid-Year Coding Check-In: What Healthcare Teams Need to Know in 2025

Physician Documentation &Mid-Year Coding Check-In:What Healthcare Teams Need to Know in 2025 Physician Documentation & Mid-Year Coding Check-In: What Healthcare Teams Need to Know in 2025 Explore key 2025 coding changes, documentation challenges, and how organizations can adapt for success in a value-based care world.  2025 Medical Coding Updates: Key Changes & Impacts Staying current with 2025 medical coding updates is essential for healthcare teams. This year has brought notable changes across several key areas: Telemedicine Coding: In 2025 there have been 17 new codes introduced for telemedicine to provide a higher specificity in billing. Cancer Coding: Codes for neoplasms

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Building Trust during Times of Change: A Better Legacy Managed Services Approach

Change in itself can often create an atmosphere of excitement and optimism, but it can also too easily cause concern, or even skepticism. The commitments made and reinforced during a time of change should ensure end users have an easy transition with minimal impact on their current daily routines. These communications and actions can result in building trust and buy-in to the changes in motion. Legacy Support Services, during an EHR implementation process for healthcare organizations, can directly help ensure that current systems continue to be properly supported with little to no interruption of ongoing operations. This also sets the

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Electronic Health Record Go-Live Success Starts Here CSI Companies’ Technical Dress Rehearsal

Electronic Health Record Go-Live Success Starts Here: CSI Companies’ Technical Dress Rehearsal

Planning an Electronic Health Record implementation and/ or preparing for your major Go-Live? Your success depends on more than just strong software—it depends on having the right Technical Dress Rehearsal (TDR) partner. At CSI Companies, we specialize in helping healthcare organizations ensure every device and station, system, and integration ready before the big day.  What Is a Technical Dress Rehearsal (TDR)?  A Technical Dress Rehearsal is a comprehensive end-to-end inventory and testing of your technical infrastructure ahead of a Go-Live. From verifying workstation connectivity to ensuring printers, scanners, and mobile devices function as expected, TDR validates the readiness of your

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CDI Awareness Why Accurate Documentation Matters

CDI Awareness: Why Accurate Documentation Matters

In the changing healthcare world, Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) is crucial. It helps ensure accurate, compliant, and quality patient care.  CDI Awareness is not just about keeping records. Creating a base for better results, less risk, and improved revenue cycle performance is essential. At CSI Companies, we understand the importance of accurate documentation and how it drives success for healthcare organizations.   What Is CDI and Why Is It Important?  Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) is the process of ensuring that medical records accurately show the care given to patients. CDI impacts everything from patient care and compliance to coding accuracy and

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