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The CDI Pocket Guide® by authors Dr. Richard Pinson and Cynthia Tang, the original and STILL the best resource for clinical documentation integrity and coding. Offered as an always up-to-date online version or the classic spiral-bound format sized to literally “fit in your pocket.”
Spiral-bound FY 2025 CDI Pocket Guide is SOLD OUT. Get the always-updated online version and/or preorder the FY 2026 spiral-bound version – slated to ship November 1.
Accurate and up-to-date information is essential for Clinicians, Coders and CDI specialists. The 2026 CDI Pocket Guide® is fully up-to-date for the FY 2026 code set.
Keep vital information at your fingertips with the #1 best-selling CDI Pocket Guide®. The CDI Pocket Guide® by authors Dr. Richard Pinson and Cynthia Tang is the ORIGINAL and STILL the best resource for clinical documentation integrity and coding.
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Each year, the authors research, revise, and clarify the content to update the original CDI Pocket Guide®. They capture significant changes in clinical diagnostic standards, ICD-10 codes, Official Coding Guidelines, Coding Clinic, and compliance issues and accommodate findings from their medical record reviews and useful feedback from readers. They also provide the wisdom of their experience as consultants helping hospitals sculpt their documentation and coding practices to their needs.
The CDI Pocket Guide® gives you access to the latest CDI updates including:
For almost 20 years, the CDI Pocket Guide® has been the essential, go-to resource for anyone involved in CDI and coding – don’t be without it! Each CDI Pocket Guide® customer will also have access to Free Monthly Webinars.
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Keep vital information at your fingertips with the online edition of the #1 best-selling authoritative original CDI Pocket Guide®. Complete with 12 months of on-going updates! The CDI Pocket Guide® by authors Dr. Richard Pinson and Cynthia Tang is the original and STILL the best resource for coding and clinical documentation integrity.
Dr. Richard Pinson and Cynthia Tang have been bringing you the most pertinent and up-to-date information in the clinical documentation field for over 15 years. With the launch of the online version in 2020, Pinson & Tang is changing the way that you access the most popular CDI reference guide on the market. Pinson & Tang created the original CDI Pocket Guide® to provide documentation specialists, coding professionals, and clinicians with the clinical information and guidance they need to help physicians accomplish thorough documentation. With the online version, the aim is to provide the same great information while expanding the ease of use, content, features and portability of the guide—at a more affordable annual price. You can also view the demo on this page’s Demo tab.
Pinson & Tang listened to the feedback that it received over many years of providing the original CDI Pocket Guide® and focused on four main areas to make your experience even better:
Accessibility. The original CDI Pocket Guide® is still “pocket-size” making it easy to take with you, but with the new online version you can leave the book behind! It is designed for ease of use and can be accessed from virtually anywhere your day takes you—your PC, laptop, or tablet. It can also be downloaded as an iPhone or Android app for your phone—free with your 12-month subscription.
Always Up-to-Date. The online version is continually updated with key refinements to all topics, the latest clinical diagnostic standards, as well as pertinent quarterly updates from Coding Clinic and the Official Coding Guidelines. Best of all, you will automatically receive notifications when your online edition has been updated—so you and your team will always be up-to-date!
Available as iPhone and Android app. The CDI Pocket Guide® online version provides you with complete online access across all of your devices. Upon purchase, you will receive a license code to log into your online version of the CDI Pocket Guide®. Although the web-responsive design allows you to access on any device, when accessing the guide on a small mobile device such as your phone, an iPhone or Android app is the way to go. Once you’re a registered user, you can download the CDI+ app from the App or Play store to access the app free with your subscription. Working from the office, from home, or on the go has never been easier.
And Customizable. The application can be customized to your own specific needs with personalized notes for any guideline or key reference topic and by selecting a Favorites list to allow even easier access to your frequently accessed topics.
As well as Affordable. The new online version gets rid of the need for printing, binding, and shipping costs, allowing Pinson & Tang to pass the savings along to you as an individual or to your organization. With a cost reduction up to 50%, the goal is to provide a new high-quality experience to a much wider audience without a large impact to your budget.
The companion online edition, CDI Pocket Guide® Unbound Edition, contains the same industry-leading clinical information and guidance contained in the print edition for inpatients, but offers additional content and features such as:
Outpatient HCCs: Outpatient coding guidelines and detailed clinical information and guidance for the new CMS-HCCs V28.0
Pediatrics and Neonates: By recognizing the unique needs of the pediatric population, Pinson & Tang partnered with the Pediatric Resource Group (PRG) to provide over 40 pediatric and neonatal key reference topics.
Patient Safety Indicators: PSI overview and quick reference guides for PSI-04 and PSI-90 with links to code lists and detailed technical specifications for each PSI
Physician (CDI+MD): The CDI+MD section caters to providers with tailored content on key CDI terms providing the essential information only.
Query Templates: For commonly queried diagnoses and situations.
Webinar library: Full access to the Pinson & Tang webinar library for in-depth learning and where users gain CEUs
Official Coding Guidelines: Complete ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Official Coding Guidelines that can be searched with copy/paste
Other Key Features: Intuitive navigation designed for efficiency with copy-paste functionality, the ability to save Favorites, and export topics to PDF. With robust global search capabilities to quickly find information and the option to add and manage notes streamlines and improves workflow.
The CDI Pocket Guide® by authors Dr. Richard Pinson and Cynthia Tang, now in its 18th edition, is the original and STILL the best resource for clinical documentation integrity and coding. Here is the table of contents from the 18th edition:
KEY REFERENCES
PEDIATRICS BY PRG
GUIDELINES
OFFICIAL CODING GUIDELINES
COMORBID CONDITIONS
DRGS
OUTPATIENT HCCS
QUERY TEMPLATES
Dr. Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS
Dr. Richard Pinson is a physician, educator, administrator, and healthcare consultant. He practiced 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.
His personal understanding of the mindset of both doctors and managers allows him a unique vantage point from which to promote cooperation between physicians, hospital staff, and administrators toward achieving beneficial and practical changes.
Cynthia Tang, RHIA, CCS
Cynthia brings over 30 years of experience in health information management, coding and clinical documentation, and clinical resource management. For the past twenty years she has traveled to hospitals throughout the country to assess their processes for managing health information and clinical documentation and to provide her much-sought after expertise in redesigning operations to promote better patient care and hospital financial health.
Her focus is on workflow design and improving clinical documentation with a view to optimizing reimbursement, ensuring compliance, and improving quality and pay for performance measures.
Dr. Richard Pinson and Cynthia Tang were honored to receive the AHIMA Triumph Award in the Influencer Category for their work on the CDI Pocket Guide®.
“As a CDI professional, this is hands down the best reference out there! I have been using the CDI Pocket Guide® for at least five years and each year the new edition and updates keep me up to date. Thank you!” — Lisa B.
“I am new to the CDI profession and this guide has helped me tremendously. I don’t know what I would do without it. It has been a great help to me in learning the ins and outs of coding and DRGs, and also what to focus on during my record reviews and querying physicians.” — Carol S.
“Thank you for another great edition of the CDI Pocket Guide®! I so appreciate the excellent webinar on the updates – very helpful to learn what’s new for 2020. And thanks for adding the DRG Tips section back this year!” — Melissa S.
“I can’t do my work without it!” — Mindy L.
“As a coder, this guide teaches me all the clinical definitions and criteria that I need to help me recognize diagnoses that I should code or not. I feel it is a must guide for any coding professional.” — Nat G.
“As a long time user of the CDI Pocket Guide® (I still have my 2009 edition!), it has been my trusted resource for conducting record reviews, meeting with physicians and more recently responding to denials. Keep up the good work Dr. Pinson and Cynthia!” — Karen M.
“I LOVE the digital version of the CDI Pocket Guide®! Being able to click the links for references is a game changer!” — Jackie Judd, CCS
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