Symposium spotlight: Speaker applications for 2020 ACDIS outpatient conference open

The fourth annual ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI conference, takes place November 12-13, 2020, at The Scottsdale Resort at McCormick Ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona, and the call for speaker applications is now open.

The 2020 Symposium planning committee recently began meeting to discuss the educational needs of this unique committee and seeks sessions on the following topics in our traditional two tracks:

Management track

• Hand-on tools for getting an outpatient CDI program started
• Data/metrics
  
  • for program growth opportunities/CDI staff monitoring
  • for physician engagement
  • for return on investment for administrative (c-suite) buy-in
• Additional revenue opportunities (Medical Wellness visits, transition of care visits, E/M leveling, auditing coders, observation patients, emergency department)
• OIG and regulatory agency efforts related to outpatient audits
• What to do when EHRs go awry
• EHR panel
  
  • What do you wish your EHR platform could do for you?
    • workflow process
    • data output
• Managing large number of staff
• Remote CDI in the outpatient setting
• Collaborating
  
  • with inpatient CDI
  • with coding
  • with quality

Clinical/coding track

• Outpatient query policies and procedures
• Compliance 101 for CDI professionals
• Problem list
• Specialty service line focus
• Same-day surgery
• Risk-adjustment models beyond CMS-HCCs
• E/M coding
  
  • E/M coding and billing change effective 01/01/2021
• Coding education for physicians
• CDI reviews for annual wellness visits
• Top five/10 opportunities for clarifying outpatient clinical diagnoses
• Seven things your coder wishes physicians would document consistently

The speaker submission portal will remain open through the end of March. If you have any questions or concerns email ACDIS Editorial Director for Events Melissa Varnavas at Mvarnavas@acdis.org.