Your organization is in the process of implementing a clinical documentation improvement program. "The newly appointed CDI director has made it clear that she is not interested in having input from the HIM department on the program's development.

However, in your role as HIM director, someone has made you aware of a CDI policy stating that once a query is answered and the information passed on to the coder, the query form will not be retained.

1. How are you going to approach the CDI director with your differing opinion on this policy?
2. Justify the position you take. 

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When approaching the CDI director with a differing opinion on the policy regarding the retention of query forms it is important to do so in a respectf... View the full answer