Conference Materials

Amy Czahor, RHIT, CDIP, CCS; Angela Franceschi, RN, BA/BS

Today’s CDI directors must be able to immediately identify the root cause of CDI program disparities and query rate fluctuations. Data is the answer. Join this session to explore how one large, multi-hospital health system...

Joseph A. Cristiano, MD; Tamara A. Hicks, RN, BSN, MHA, CCS, CCDS, ACM-

This session informs CDI and leadership on differences in clinical medicine in the academic environment and how to stimulate collaboration, efficiency, and educational partnership in this setting. The session...

Candace Blankenship, BSN, RN, CCDS; Deborah Neville, RHIA

The Maryland ACDIS chapter along with Elsevier invite you to learn more about the APR-DRG coding system. Join us to learn what secondary diagnoses impact the common APR-DRGs of CHF, CVA, COPD, AMI, and pneumonia for...

Cheryll A. Rogers, RHIA, CDIP, CCDS, CCS, CTR

This session will include an overview of neonatal clinical concepts and coding guidelines, with case example discussion and compliant query formulation. This session will additionally include details on disease process and code...

Erica E. Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS

This session will walk the CDI specialist or physician advisor through the steps to select high-yield DRGs, analysis methodology to recoup lost revenue, and case-based examples to provide feedback and education for the medical staff.

Kay M. Blue, RN, BSN, CCDS, ACM; Holley P. Pegram, RN, MSN, CCM; Sandie R. Pressley, BSN, RN

This discussion with CDI and quality leadership from Carolinas Healthcare System describes how CDI specialist participation in interdisciplinary rounds incorporates CDI specialists as...

Claudia E. Baker, RN, CPHQ, CDIP, CCDS; Kellie B. Halsted, MSN, MHA, RN, CCM; John A. Poulin, RN, BSN

This session will examine one academic medical center’s implementation of a “relationship-based” CDI program, helping attendees with those elements that affect provider...

Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS

CDI programs can no longer afford to remain focused on simple CC/MCC capture; they need to understand how the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) Program works and what documentation risks hospitals face under this increasingly important payment...

Seth Kirschner; Lori Sackela, RN, CCM, CCDS

Mount Carmel Health System successfully implemented one of the nation’s first observation CDI programs. Attendees will learn how in addition to reducing observation patient length of stay and supporting appropriate patient status, the...

Susan Haley, AAS, RHIT, CCS, CCDS; Patricia Nemeth, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS

CDI provides a crucial link to assist in clinical validation of the documented diagnosis to support compliant coding. This session describes conditions that are targeted due to a lack of clinical support and...