Assignment: Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI)
Physician documentation is the source by which the coder begins to select the correct diagnosis and procedure codes. There has been a lot of discussion for physicians to improve their clinical documentation.
Research Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) related to ICD 10 and indicate how this movement benefits the clinical coding specialist /medical coder in their day to day work.
Should be a minimum of 150 words. If you use any source outside of your own thoughts, you should reference that source.