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CCDS Exam Study Guide

Get ready for the CCDS exam

The CCDS Exam Study Guide has been updated to prepare candidates for the Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS) exam. It follows the content outline established by the advisory board that created the exam.

Each chapter reviews clinical documentation improvement program principles and contains sample questions for self-testing.

The CCDS Exam Study Guide will:

  • Help candidates determine whether they are ready to take the CCDS exam
  • Give qualified candidates the confidence they need for success
  • Provide sample questions for self-assessment
  • Deliver proven test-taking strategies
Table of ContentsChapter 1: IPPS Payment System
  • MS- DRGs
  • Complication/comorbidities (CCs) and major CCs
  • Case mix index implications for CDI
Chapter 2: Coding Guidelines and Coding Clinics
  • International Classification of Diseases
  • Code identification and sequencing
  • ICD-9-CM Official Coding Guidelines, compliance, and CDI
Chapter 3: The Query Process
  • Retrospective/concurrent queries
  • AHIMA Physician Query Practice Brief
  • Leading/non-leading queries
Chapter 4: Identification of Clinical Indicators
  • Query opportunities in Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC)
  • Test result interpretation for query opportunities
  • Common clinical documentation improvement scenarios
Chapter 5: Program Metrics
  • Baseline statistics
  • Scope/goals of CDI program
  • Data mining/data tracking
  • Analysis of public quality data
Chapter 6: RAC Preparedness
  • RAC target areas
  • CDI on the RAC prep team
  • Self-audits
Appendices
  • Determining the MS-DRG
  • Glossary
  • Core Measures


About the Author :
Fran Jurcak, RN, MSN, CCDS, is a director in CDI Solutions at Huron Healthcare, a division of Huron Consulting in Chicago and a former project manager with J. A. Thomas and Associates. She served as a member of the CCDS Certification Committee since 2010, and was recently chosen to serve on the ACDIS Advisory Board. Jurcak has implemented successful CDI programs in more than 50 hospital systems in the past five years. With more than 25 years of nursing experience, Jurcak has clinical experience in critical care and emergency medicine, and taught as an assistant professor of nursing at Madonna University in Livonia, MI, for more than 15 years. She was among the first CDI specialists to earn the CCDS certification in 2009.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781601469182
  • Publisher: Hcpro, a Division of Simplify Compliance
  • Publisher Imprint: Hcpro, a Division of Simplify Compliance
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 166
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 216 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1601469187
  • Publisher Date: 28 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Spiral bound
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 408 gr


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