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Certified Documentation Integrity Practitioner (CDIP)

Licensing authority: Commission on Certification for Health Informatics and Information Management · Application information

Initial by examination
CDIP exam
Eligibility Alternatives
["Hold an associate’s degree or higher","Successfully complete the academic requirements of an HIM Certificate of the Degree (Post-Baccalaureate) program approved by the CAHIIM","Hold a CCS®, CCS-P®, RHIT®, or RHIA® credential"]
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CDIP exam

Format
Computer-based or remotely proctored examination
Exam questions
Total questions: 140; Scored questions: 106; Unscored questions: 34; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
Time limit
Three hours
Passing score
300
Examination outline

The authority publishes percentage ranges for each content area. The practice percentages below use the midpoint of each range, normalized to 100%; they are not exact percentages published by the authority. Practice question counts may differ slightly because of rounding.

  • Clinical Coding Practice — Official range: 15–18% (Practice allocation: 16.5%)
    • Reference resources for code assignment
    • Principal and secondary diagnoses
    • Diagnosis and procedure code assignment and sequencing
    • Coding conventions and guidelines
    • Working and final DRG assignment
    • Coding and HIM discrepancy resolution and updates
  • Education and Leadership Development — Official range: 21–26% (Practice allocation: 23.5%)
    • Promotion of CDI efforts
    • Multi-disciplinary collaboration
    • Documentation improvement projects
    • Physician champions
    • CDI policies and procedures
    • Query response documentation requirements
    • Unanswered query chain of command
    • CDI education topics and delivery
    • Implications of accurate documentation and coding
  • Record Review & Document Clarification — Official range: 27–33% (Practice allocation: 30%)
    • Clinical documentation in health records
    • CDI case identification and prioritization
    • Documentation gaps
    • Query development and processes
    • Provider query responses
    • Provider clarification of documentation
    • Post-discharge query opportunities
  • CDI Metrics & Statistics — Official range: 8–11% (Practice allocation: 9.5%)
    • Dashboard metrics and departmental performance
    • Quality audits of CDI content
    • Physician query metrics and trends
    • Physician benchmarking and trending
    • External institutional benchmarks
    • Key performance metrics for CDI professionals
    • CDI data and departmental workflow
  • Compliance — Official range: 18–23% (Practice allocation: 20.5%)
    • Ethical CDI best practices
    • Regulatory environment and agency compliance
    • Technology risks
    • Second level reviews
    • Clinical validation queries
    • Non-compliant queries
    • Query process stages, time frames and retention
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