The healthcare reimbursement landscape is changing resulting in penalties for organizations with perceived poorer quality of care and less than optimal patient outcomes. CDI Programs are imploding to support the morphing focus on “quality” documentation which results in the accurate...
The latest short-term Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) is available for acute care hospitals nationwide,...Read More »
Q: At my facility, we are to “pull” bad or un-credible queries from patient charts and report the query to our manager. Is there any official...Read More »
With special guest Kathy Kinser, RHIT, CCDS, CCS, Supervisor of the Clinical Documentation Improvement Program at UNC Health Care Hospitals, and co-host Sharme Brodie, RN...
Cynthia Raymond, RN, CPC, CPC-H, CCDS; Lindsay Wenk
Here’s a goal you can probably relate to: trying to review 100% of Medicare cases. But with a goal like that, how is anyone supposed to start reviewing other DRG payers, especially when hiring additional staff isn’t an option?...
Karen DiMeglio, RN, MS, CPC, CCDS; Jill O’Brien, MD
Are you struggling to get your physicians to understand why documentation is so important? Maybe you need the right physician advisor partner. This session will review how to choose the right physician advisor and identify...
Sam Antonios, MD, FACP, FHM, CCDS
This session will review how to use analytics to support and augment the power of your CDI program and leap into the next phase in healthcare. It will discuss the expansion of data and analytics, how to use analytics to prioritize optimization...
