This presentation details the journey of a behavioral health hospital’s quest to embrace CDI when there was no precedent to do so. Behavioral health hospitals need to employ CDI tenets and practices to support great quality of care, accurate coding, and...
by Sara Atwater, MD, MPH, and David Reece, BSN, RN, CCDS
Outpatient CDI has blurred definitions, few established guidelines/metrics, limited software, and a mostly “home-grown” group of relatives. This session provides insight from an established outpatient CDI program on...
by Sandra Surratt, BSN, RNC-OB, and Michelle Walters, MSN, RNC-OB
This presentation includes detailed strategies for physician engagement and education to ensure accurate documentation of diagnoses and procedures as they affect quality measures and publicly reported data.
How can CDI staff identify sepsis query opportunities when there is so much confusion? What policies and processes should your organization have in place to aggressively manage sepsis denials? This presentation will provide a comprehensive overview...
Based on review of the current literature, attendees will learn about a unique study based on actual data and risk adjustment factor (RAF) aggregated from a large number of institutions. To “bring the data to life,” participants will explore a scatter-plot...
by Stephanie Hill-Sandoval, RN, and Lucinda Lo, MD
While 100% concurrent review might be touted as the gold standard, there are usually more charts to review than time and resources. Speakers will share three methods to prioritize CDI workflow and share case examples...
Here are photos of posters and descriptions we received from the 2017 Poster Presentation participants. You can contact each presenter for more information about their poster.
Nelly Leon-Chisen, RHIA, Director of Coding and Classification, American Hospital Association
Hear the most important updates to AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-10 of the past year as they relate to CDI, and straight from the source: Nelly Leon-Chisen is the Director of Coding...
