2025 ACDIS Pocket Guide

2025 ACDIS Pocket Guide

Order your 2025 version today and be sure to receive the #1 CDI resource!

CDI professionals need a day-to-day reference when conducting their medical record reviews—one that can provide trusted clinical indicators for compliant and effective physician queries and at-a-glance, easy-to-use comorbidity lists.

The 2025 ACDIS Pocket Guide is the essential resource for regulatory and coding guidance, IPPS reimbursement updates, compliant query best practices and standards, clinical validation, and diagnostic definitions. Co-written by industry veteran and former ACDIS Director Laurie Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, and Dr. James Manz, MD, CCDS-O, a practicing physician steeped in the latest physician documentation terminology, the 2025 ACDIS Pocket Guide is a winning combination of practical, tailored CDI tips and resources and clinical, regulatory, and coding guidance adapted from the official sources.

The 2025 ACDIS Pocket Guide offers the latest information CDI professionals need to know including:

• Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 guidelines
• AHA 2024 Coding Clinic guidance
• New provider tips from James Manz, MD, CCDS-O of Mayo Clinic
• Updated critical thinking tips, treatment protocols, and diagnostic criteria
• The latest updates related to social determinants of health
• The inclusion of 75+ conditions
• And more!

Plus, the Comorbid Conditions Offering Impact table has been updated include more specific codes and to highlight those conditions that directly impact certain Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) quality programs: Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HAC), Patient Safety Indicators (PSI), 30-Day Mortality, and Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program/30-Day Readmissions (HRRP).

Published: November 2024

Page Count: 658
Format: Print, Spiral with tabs
ISBN: 978-1-64535-292-1

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About the Authors

Laurie Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, is an experienced CDI subject matter expert, former interim ACDIS director, and former CDI education director at HCPro. While at ACDIS and HCPro, she was also the lead developer and instructor for the CDI Boot Camps as well as a member of the CCDS-O certification committee and the ACDIS Advisory Board; she also frequently spoke on the ACDIS Podcast and at ACDIS conferences and webinars. She is the author of The Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialist’s Complete Training Guide and the ACDIS Pocket Guide series. Prescott has served in a variety of health systems and settings since joining the nursing profession in 1985 and she developed and implemented a CDI program in 2007.

James Manz, MD, FAAOS, CCDS-O, is a consultant in spine and neurological surgery with the Mayo Clinic Health System as well as assistant professor of healthcare administration. Manz serves as physician chair of the Mayo Enterprise Outpatient CDI Subcommittee, physician vice chair of the Mayo Enterprise Inpatient CDI Subcommittee, and physician chair of the Mayo Clinic Problem List Stewardship Committee. Manz is also a member of the CCDS-O subcommittee of the ACDIS Certification Committee.

About the Reviewer

Keisha Downes, MBA-HM, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCS, is the vice president middle revenue cycle for Beth Israel Lahey Health, based in Massachusetts. Downes also is an adjunct professor, teaching courses in coding and health information management. Her volunteer experience includes contribution to the AHIMA CCS Standard Setting Panel as a subject matter expert and elected ACDIS Advisory Board member for the 2024–2027 term. Downes co-authored the ACDIS/AHIMA supported Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice—2022 Update and was the reviewer for 2024 and 2025 ACDIS Pocket Guide. A nurse for 21 years, she attained her BSN from Liberty University and MBA with Healthcare Management concentration from Western Governor’s University. She is currently pursuing her Doctor of Medical Science in Healthcare Leadership at Northeastern University.