Forms

November 28, 2012
Health information management

This 61-page orthopedic superbill includes ICD-10 and CPT codes and descriptions for a variety of orthopedic services. Roberta Bosank-Cera of Hospitals for Special Surgery, New York, NY, submitted the superbill to the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists.

March 4, 2015
Clinical documentation

Lori-Lynne A. Webb, CPC, CCS-P, CCP, CHDA, CDIP, COBGC, AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer, provided this documentation and coding example for reporting fetal status for ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM.
October 8, 2014
Training

Use this 10-question quiz to determine how well you know common medical prefixes and suffixes.  
March 13, 2013
Physician queries

This policy establishes guidelines for inpatient physician queries. It is provided by Donald A. Butler, Manager of Clinical Documentation at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville NC. It was originally published on the Association for Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists website.

January 14, 2015
Physician queries

Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDIP, AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer, CDI education director at HCPro, a division of BLR, in Danvers, Massachusetts, provided this sample multiple-choice query for chest pain.

July 15, 2015
Physician queries

These sample malnutrition queries were donated by Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CDI education director for HCPro, a division of BLR, in Danvers, Massachusetts, and ACDIS Advisory Board member Mark LeBlanc, RN, MBA, CCDS, clinical documentation manager, at Hennepin (Mo.) County Medical Center, who spoke during the June 10 webinar “Physician Queries: Ensure Effective, Compliant, Regulatory-Based Clarifications.” The queries also appear on the ACDIS website.

October 1, 2014
Training, Anatomy and terminology

Test your knowledge of medical terminology and anatomy with this 10-question quiz created by HCPro's Boot Camp instructors.
November 20, 2013
Physician queries

These sample ICD-10-CM queries address establishing the relationship between conditions in ICD-10 t. These queries are adapted from The CDI Specialist’s Guide to ICD-10, created and donated by Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDIP, AHIMA approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer, CDI education director at HCPro, Inc., in Danvers, Mass.

October 31, 2012
Physician queries, Clinical documentation

This query form is a request for documentation clarification of pathology findings. It was submitted by Paul Evans, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, supervisor of clinical documentation integrity at Sutter Health in San Francisco. It originally appeared on the Association for Clinical Documentation Specialists website.

May 23, 2012
Physician queries

The Winthrop University Hospital clinical documentation improvement (CDI) specialists and HIM team implemented a new query for cerebral infarctions in preparation for the transition to ICD-10. The newly created form incorporates the language necessary to capture documentation within this new area of enhanced specificity.

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