Study guide
CDIP study guide
Read a lesson, then practice the ideas you want to remember.
Lessons
- General Coding Conventions, Punctuation & In
- Official Coding Resources: Scope, Authority
- Chapter-Specific and Setting-Specific Coding
- Evaluating CDI Professional Performance
- Using Data to Design CDI Workflow and Staffi
- External Benchmarking: CMI, Severity, Mortal
- Provider Documentation Benchmarking — Free Study Guide 2026
- Departmental Metrics: Definitions, Calculati
- Internal CDI Quality Audits and Reviewer Cal
- Query Trends: Understanding the Process and
- Inpatient Review Prioritization: High-Risk &
- Pharmacotherapy, Clinical Trajectories & Dis
- Payer Prioritization, Length of Stay & Re-Re
- Systematic Identification of Documentation G
- AKI Criteria, Tubular Injury, and CKD Stagin
- Sepsis Definitions, SEP-1, and Coding — Free Study Guide 2026
- Resolving Conflicting, Ambiguous & Copy-Forw
- Interpreting Diagnostic Imaging, Pathology &
- Synthesizing Provider Notes, Consults & Prog
- Principles of a Compliant, Nonleading Query
- Malnutrition Assessment, Severity, and Provi
- Open-Ended, Multiple-Choice, and Yes/No Quer
- Clinical Validation and Coding Clarification
- Clinical Validation Queries and Denial Evide
- Detecting Leading, Biased and Unsupported Qu
- AHIMA/ACDIS Practice Brief Standards in Poli
- Medical Record Integration of Provider Query
- Policies for Electronic, Paper, and Verbal Q
- Partnering with Nursing, Pharmacy & Allied H
- Executing, Piloting & Measuring CDI Project
- Documentation Improvement Project Identifica
- Encephalopathy, Delirium, and Acute Cognitiv
- Heart Failure Phenotype, Acuity, and Hyperte
- Respiratory Failure: Acuity, Evidence, and S
- Documentation Impacts on Case Management, LO
- Delivery Methods: Microlearning, Case Studie
- Documentation Impacts on Clinical Research &
- Organizational Models, Inpatient/Outpatient
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: HIM, Quality
- Articulating CDI Value to C-Suite & Hospital
- Applying AHIMA Ethics to CDI Decisions — Free Study Guide 2026
- Responding to Financial Pressure and Upcodin
- Maintaining Competence and Professional Inte
- CDI-Coding Reconciliation & Annual Regulator
- MS-DRG Logic, CC/MCC Exclusions & Severity L
- Working vs. Final DRG Assignment & Optimizat
- Developing Standard CDI Operational Policies
- Selection, Role & Credibility of the CDI Phy
- Peer-to-Peer Engagement, Coaching & Overcomi
- Two or More Diagnoses Equally Meeting Criter
- UHDDS Definitions & Principal Diagnosis Sele
- Secondary Diagnosis Reporting Standards & PO
- Applying Official References to Ambiguous Re
- ICD-10-PCS Root Operations & Inpatient Proce
- Principal Procedure Selection & Surgical Seq
- Clarifying Acuity, Cause, Site and Severity
- Post-Discharge Query Opportunities and Limit
- Managing Post-Discharge Query Workflows
- Present on Admission Clarification and Selec
- Assessing Stakeholder Learning Needs & Speci
- Conflict Resolution & Professional Feedback
- Chain of Command & Protocols for Unanswered
- Capturing and Clarifying Query Responses
- Electronic Query Systems, Templates, and Tec
- Collaborating With the Appropriate Query Rec
- Query Timeframes, Aging and Measurement
- Query Records, Retention and Evidence Preser
- Query Remediation and Corrective Action
- EHR Templates, Copied Text and Record Integr
- False Claims, Overpayments and Referral Laws
- Regulatory Agencies, Review Contractors and
- CAC, NLP and AI: Context, Oversight and Perf
- Selecting Cases for Second-Level Review
- Conducting and Closing a Second-Level Review