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Consulting

Consulting & Education Strategy

We work collaboratively with your team to maintain the integrity and accuracy of your health records with a focus on three specific avenues.


Assessment, Education, and Implementation.


Our team at CDI Answers works to identify coding opportunities, compliance issues, educational opportunities, and to optimize reimbursement by ensuring that the diagnostic, procedural codes, and supporting documentation accurately reflect/support the service rendered and comply with ethical coding standards/guidelines and regulatory requirements. 


  1. We provide a CDI Opportunity Assessment and Pre-Bill Review that allows us to pinpoint your main avenues for growth and opportunity with CDI.
  2. Based on your CDI Assessment, we create targeted education, training, and/or consulting referable to ICD-10-CM/PCS-based clinical documentation and coding integrity (CDI) with emphasis on  hospital and/or provider medical necessity subject matter.
  3. Continuous Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) Implementation and Maintenance Support from start to finish including staffing, education (and materials), mentoring, and progress analytics/reports.


We aim to provide clear, consistent service to any and all of our clients. CDI Answers works with a diverse mix of organizations and prides itself on custom tailoring solutions specific to each entity we partner with.  



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Matthew K.

"Last week was a giant win for us for sure. The project is huge and we will work to chip away at it bit by bit. 


Thank you for your time, your insight, and your overall direction with our CDI program.  


Having CDI Answers here this past week and seeing first hand everyone's level of commitment/involvement was very reassuring that we made the best choice for starting our CDI program! 


I look forward to continuing to work with all of you as we move forward!"


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We create a Targeted CDI Education Program based on the results of your CDI Assessment.

We take pride in our ability to provide education, training, and/or consulting referable to ICD-10-CM/PCS-based clinical documentation and coding integrity (CDI) or hospital and/or provider medical necessity subject matter expertise. We focus on a targeted CDI education program by providing Physician, Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialist (CDS), and Coding Education and Engagement as well as Physician Advisor Training.


Staying up to date is integral for our CDI Specialists and Educators. CDI Answers utilizes physician subject matter experts and our remote team to ensure the quality and integrity of our educational programs. 


Depending on the needs of your facility, we provide solutions and answers that meet the specific needs of your CDI Program.  


CDI Answers will provide Ongoing mentoring and support for the entire process.  Both onsite and virtually.


Clinical Documentation Integrity Education 

Implementation Process Outline


While all of our CDI Programs are case specific, we do provide a general outline of what to expect from our Implementation Process.


  1. Pre-implementation planning 
  2. CDI Steering Committee Participation 
  3. Policies and Procedures Development
  4. Provider environment
  5. Provider and Payer Coding and Clinical Validation Policies
  6. Clinical Definitions 
  7. CDI Query Revision
  8. Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialist (CDS) Recruitment(if necessary)
  9. CDI MD Tracker Fundamental-Internal Concurrent Analysis

Senior physician CDI consultant

Dr. Hardik Shah is the former Director of Clinical Documentation Integrity & Optimization at Community Medical Centers. 


He has more than 9 years of leadership experience in clinical medicine, clinical documentation integrity and data analytics in Public health.  He received his medical degree from Windsor University in St. Kitts & Nevis. He also holds a Master's in Public Health in Health Services Policy and Administration from University of South Carolina. 


In his former role as Director of Clinical Documentation Integrity & Clinical Optimization, he was responsible for directing cross-facility resources to facilitate planning, design, development, implementation, education, maintenance and evaluation of clinical processes, clinical documentation integrity and clinical information systems by constructing a structural bridge between academia and patient care services to maximize full human and technological potential for all clinical and non-clinical departments. His primary responsibilities included managing the continued development of the 1100 bed hospital wide clinical documentation integrity program and CDI nurse, physician and technological resources. 


In addition, he collaborates, consults, and advises Hospital systems, revenue cycle management, leadership staff to architect best clinical documentation integrity practices and processes through strategic analysis and interpretation and redesign of workflows in order to reduce variation in clinical documentation in an effort to optimize and maximize clinical outcomes.


Dr. Shah is currently our Senior Physician Consultant is responsible for delivering CDI Education to clients regarding appropriate diagnoses for capturing accurate Severity of illness, Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC’s) and Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Group (MS DRG’s) -  He reviews and analyzes health records to identify relevant diagnoses and procedures for distinct patient encounters.  He works closely with medical and HIM staff and has an approach that immediately promotes collaboration.  


Request a custom drg assessment

We will provide you a custom analysis utilizing proprietary software from CDIMD and data analytics to show you the potential value of utilizing our team of physician CDI experts at your facility.

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  • Looking for greater positive financial impact due to lost opportunity because of inaccurate documentation?


  • Hoping to optimize and streamline Clinical Documentation in your organization? 


  • Attempting to improve patient quality outcomes through improved documentation?


  • Not able to locate specific opportunity to educate your staff?

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