Conference Materials

Attached is the General Session PowerPoint presentation by Nell Leon-Chisen, RHIA, executive editor of AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM.

Gloryanne Bryant, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, CCDS, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer; Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer; and Trey La Charité, MD, discuss the ICD-10 implementation delay including:

• What happened? An insiders’ look at the delay
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Donna Smith, RHIA, discusses how to analyze the impact of ICD-10 on reimbursement. This presentation explores the top 20 documentation issues that cause changes in DRG assignment and offers a step-by-step analysis to determine the areas and service lines with the greatest exposure under ICD-10,...

Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP, AHIMA-Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer, presentation includes information about how CDI roles and responsibilities may change with the new code set implementation. This presentation focuses on how CDI departments should evaluate their current query practices to...

Natalie Sartori, MEd, RHIA, AHIMA-Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer, and Rebecca A. “Ali” Williams, RN, MSN, CCDS, explain how children's hospitals will need to focus CDI efforts to address the specific documentation that is needed for ICD-10-CM/PCS code will enumerate documentation requirements to...

James P. Fee, MD, CCS, CCDS, AHIMA-Approved ICD-10- CM/PCS Trainer offers a presentation that reviews changes to the guidelines for the ICD-10 diagnostic coding of acute myocardial infarction, acute cerebrovascular infarction and its sequela, and atherosclerotic coronary artery disease in...

Gloryanne Bryant, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, CCDS, AHIMA-Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer offers tools to adjust training timelines and prepare query forms, make revisions, and create new forms.

Natalie Sartori, MEd, RHIA, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer, and Rebecca A. “Ali” Williams, RN, MSN, CCDS, present ways to expand CDI efforts to include the specific documentation needed for ICD-10-PCS code assignment. This presentation helps CDI professionals recognize additional ...

Christine Block, RN, BSN, explains the significance of documentation related to SOI/ROM in the oncology service line. It demonstrates how teaching results in more specific documentation, which in turn leads to more accurate coding. The presentation explains how to identify opportunities directed...

Tim Weister, RN, MSN, CCDS, explores how to include medical students in CDI training and presents how
Mayo Clinic CDI team partnered with its medical school to create a CDI training program.