The Cdi Quality Institute

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473685479
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
St Louis Park, MN, USA
Phone
9527384570
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$81,599
Assets
$390,749
Liabilities
$11,278

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

54 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHRISTOPHER CRANCER (SVP/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • CHRISTOPHER CRANCER (SVP/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $14,270 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

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What it reported doing in 2025

In 2021, the united states centers for medicare and medicaid granted the cdi quality institute requalification as a provider led entity (ple). Under this designation, the institute has and continues to develop specific appropriate use criteria for advanced imaging procedures. These criteria are electronically made available to the public and are licensed for use by federally-qualified clinical decision support mechanisms. Currently, medicare clinicians who order advanced imaging studies are encouraged to consult appropriate use criteria developed by a ple. Expenses are related directly to the administration of this program, including stipends for medical subject experts from across the country. The cdi quality institute is qualified by cms as a provider led entity and develops appropriate use criteria guidelines for advanced imaging. Over the past number of years, the institute had licensed these criteria to clinical decision support vendors. Currently, cms has paused the appropriate use criteria program, which has also paused any licensing of criteria from the institute. As congress continues to investigate a way forward for this program, there may be additional licensing seen again in future years.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 83
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 97.9%; rating input score 98; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.79; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -28.8% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 47 of 48 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $14K · 54 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.