by Aimee M. Van Balen, RN, BSN, CCDS, and Laurie A. Morelle, RN, MS, CCDS
Struggling with how to educate your MDs? Having difficulty with engagement and query response rates? We can help! Come on in to learn from our mistakes and successes over the last eight years. In this...
by Pamela Hess, MA, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, CPC, and Susan Schmitz, JD, RN, BSN, CCS, CDIP, CCDS
Engage in a discussion on mortality scoring and analysis by understanding expected versus actual mortality calculation. Take home a step-by-step approach to integrating mortality scoring as...
by Amy Fletcher, RN, CCDS, and Jacie Kramer, RN, BSN
CDI programs aren’t only for the acute inpatient arena; they are also being implemented in critical access hospitals (CAH) and Medicare dependent hospitals. Learn how to build a successful program to meet the varying regulatory...
The volume of denials due to lack of medical necessity for outpatient services is increasing. As a result, providers must ensure that they develop processes around improving documentation to justify services in all areas of care provided....
by Sandra Love, RN, BSN, CCDS, and Melinda G. Matthews, RN, BSN, MHA, CCDS, CDIP
This session offers strategies to optimize your pediatric CDI program, including hidden opportunities to drive severity of illness and risk of mortality while supporting final coding and audit...
While the ICD-10-CM/PCS Index, Table, and Guidelines serve as the foundation for code assignment, the American Hospital Association’s Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS provides interpretative advice deemed by many to be official. This...
by Jennifer A. Crumb, RN, BSN, CCDS, Ashlyn Hard, RN, BSN, CCDS, and Jennifer Woodworth, RN, BSN
Now that CDI efforts have been around for quite a few years, organizations are noticing a plateau effect—the case-mix index has found its happy place, physicians are comfortable with...
by Jennifer Eaton, RN, MSN, CCDS, and James Fee, MD, CCS, CCDS
The impact of clinical documentation and coding has expanded as CMS and other payers shift from fee-for-service to value-based payments linked to quality and cost outcomes. Speakers will take participants step by step...
Documentation in the long-term acute care setting (LTAC) differs compared to documentation optimization for typical short-term care centers. This session provides documentation improvement methodologies you can teach to physicians to support...
by Cherri Sanders, RHIT, and Heather Marie Smith, CCS-P
Our facility serves a large Medicare population, making it vulnerable to Medicare’s LCD/NCDs, and it experienced thousands of dollars in denials annually without fully understanding what was being denied and why. Everything...
