2024 ACDIS Pocket Guide

Order your 2024 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 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 Laurie Prescott, ACDIS’s interim director and CDI education director, and Dr. James Manz, a practicing physician steeped in the latest physician documentation terminology, the 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 2024 ACDIS Pocket Guide offers the latest information CDI professionals need to know including:

• Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 guidelines
• AHA 2023 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 addition of a new condition - leukemia
• The inclusion of 75+ conditions

Owners of the 2024 ACDIS Pocket Guide will have access to significant updates to the following conditions:

• Cerebral edema/brain compression
• Chronic kidney disease
• Mechanical ventilation
• Myocardial ischemia/infarction and angina
• Atrial septal defect (neonatal/pediatric)
• Anemia
• Neoplasms
• 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 2023

Page Count: 624 + 6 Tabs
Format: Print, Spiral with tabs
ISBN: 978-1-64535-274-7

About the Authors

	Laurie Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, is the ACDIS interim director, education director, the lead developer and instructor for the CDI Boot Camps, and a member of the CCDS-O certification committee and the ACDIS Advisory Board. She is a frequent speaker on the ACDIS Podcast, at ACDIS conferences, and in webinars. She is the author of the Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialist’s Training Guide and the ACDIS Pocket Guide series.
	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, RN, CCDS, CCS, is the senior director middle revenue cycle for Tufts Medicine health system, based in Massachusetts. This role combines the four middle revenue cycle areas of utilization management, clinical documentation integrity, hospital coding and health information management. Downes also is a visiting professor for DeVry University where she teaches courses for the Health Information Technology program. She is a member of ACDIS, HFMA, and AHIMA, and serves on the 2023 ACDIS Leadership Council. Downes co-authored the ACDIS/AHIMA supported Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice—2022 Update. A nurse for 20 years, she obtained her BSN from Liberty University and MBA in Healthcare Administration from Western Governor’s University.