CDI-Cast, CDI Program Compliance: Why physician training is your best defense

Program Description

The Office of the Inspector General and other federal agencies have begun investigating hospital clinical documentation programs.  In most cases, the compliance issues could have been prevented if physicians had received the appropriate training in clinical documentation practices. Many organizations take the less challenging route with their physicians by training clinicians and other support staff around the physicians.  Today, clinical documentation practices need to involve the physicians, the authors of the documentation.  Every organization needs to work through and with their physicians to achieve both high quality clinical documentation and compliance. In this program, you will learn about strategies to engage physicians in the training process. You will also hear about successful results of other healthcare organizations. Specifically, managing and scheduling training as well as addressing the issue of time management, one of the biggest concerns of most physicians, is addressed.

Session tools

• Communication tools for informing physicians about clinical documentation training
• Scheduling examples for creating a master training plan
• Time management Web sites for physicians

Objectives

• Create a sense of urgency and importance with executive leaders in your organization regarding clinical documentation training for physicians
• Work with physicians to provide solid and sustainable clinical documentation training
• Bring physician leaders into the clinical documentation training process
• Compile a master plan for training that includes all physicians and clinicians
• Acknowledge time management as a common concern for all physicians and provide suggestions that may help

Intended Audience:

• Compliance officers, reviewers and managers
• Clinical documentation managers and specialists
• Coders
• Nurse managers
• Clinicians/managers who document in the patient record
• Health information managers
• Physician documentation leaders
• Educating and training managers

CDI-Cast Self-assessment: 

Assess your program by answering a few key questions that will be provided at the end of the session.  Use your responses to improve your current CDI program.

Q&A:

You can submit your questions on the CDI-Cast Web site.  We will address as many of the questions as possible and post responses on the Web site.  Responses will only be available for CDI-Cast subscribers to view.

Take-aways

• Improve your current training schedule using suggestions from the CDI-Cast
• Add some time management tips to your current documentation training for physicians
• Enhance your current documentation training announcements and communications using examples from the CDI-Cast

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