The Essential
CDI Pocket Guide
Keep vital information at your fingertips with the best selling CDI Pocket Guide now for ICD-10-AM and AR-DRGs. Everything you need to know to achieve excellence in clinical documentation, coding and DRG assignment.
Benefits of CDI Pocket Guide
Keep your coding and CDI practice up to date with the latest release of the essential CDI Pocket Guide ICD-10-AM by Jenny Fitzpatrick, Sam Heynemann, Dr. Richard Pinson and Cynthia Tang.
Proven Value
For over 13 years, the CDI Pocket Guide has been the essential, go-to resource for anyone involved in clinical documentation improvement – don’t be without it!
Overcome Challenges
We address the issues of both clinical documentation and coding so that coding and CDI specialists can meet the on-going challenges of clinical documentation.
KEEP Up To Date
We capture pertinent changes in clinical diagnostic standards, coding guidelines, ICD-10-AM codes, HACs, etc. and explain in a way that everyone can easily understand.
Easy to Use
The CDI Pocket Guide is “pocket-sized” so it is easy to search through and learn from. Keeping it simple and focusing on what matters is our motto.
About the Authors
As the field of CDI has emerged in Australia, Jenny Fitzpatrick and Sam Heynemann of the Uplift Group recognised the need for a resource for the Australian context. When they found the original CDI Pocket Guide™, they reached out to Cynthia and Richard, and together these four seasoned experts created the CDI Pocket Guide™ for ICD-10-AM and AR-DRGs.
Jenny Fitzpatrick
Uplift Group Director, Jenny Fitzpatrick, has maintained an active presence across Victorian hospitals for twenty years as a qualified Health Information Manager. She is also a proud member of the Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA).
Jenny’s professional experience and expert knowledge of clinical coding, casemix analysis, and Health Information Management have supported both private and public healthcare organisations to ensure high-quality revenue integrity and clinical coding practices.
A major part of Jenny’s career comprises of providing senior leadership across high performing Health Information Management departments in several organisations. She has facilitated a learning and development culture that attracts and retains high-quality staff.
Jenny also holds a Certificate of External and Internal Clinical Coding Auditing from La Trobe University. This qualification is held only by a select, experienced number of Health Information Managers who possess advanced knowledge, analysis skills, and reporting aptitudes related to auditing competency. The credentials ensure accuracy of national and state morbidity collections funding, financial justification, and accountability. Her involvement in numerous revenue optimisation projects, clinical coding audits, and clinical documentation improvement initiatives has led to significant revenue uplift across multiple healthcare facilities.
Sam Heynemann
BHlthSc(MedClass) & BHlthInfoMgt
Uplift Group Director, Sam Heynemann, has a strong interest in health classification, casemix analysis, and its application to health care funding. As a qualified Health Information Manager, he has utilised his skills in stakeholder engagement, health classification and casemix funding, data analysis, and reporting. His work has successfully produced comprehensive audit reports and education for both non-clinical and clinical staff and executive teams.
Prior to Uplift, Sam spent several years working as a Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialist. He provided education to relevant hospital personnel on casemix and revenue integrity issues relating to documentation deficiencies in both public and private hospital settings.
Sam successfully facilitated the implementation of a pilot CDI program in Australia’s second-largest private hospital network. He looks forward to sharing his frontline experience in Clinical Documentation Improvement programs and promote the idea of how such programs can be impactful for hospital clinical coding and reimbursement opportunities.
Dr. Richard Pinson
Dr. Richard Pinson is a physician, educator, administrator, and healthcare consultant. He practised Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine in Tennessee for over 20 years having board certification in both. Dr. Pinson is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and former Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Vanderbilt, and has assisted hospitals as a physician consultant for the past ten years.
Cynthia Tang
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