Topic suggestions for 2026 ACDIS events
May 3, 2025
Interested in submitting a proposal for one of our 2026 in-person events, but not sure where to start? The following are a list of topics we'd love to see more of at each event!
ACDIS Conference (April 20–23, 2026)
- Professional development and leadership topics such as:
- Retention and employee engagement
- Remote work
- Succession planning
- Leadership skills (e.g., emotional intelligence)
- Conflict resolution
- Mentoring
- Writing job descriptions
- Building career ladders
- Clinical and coding topics such as:
- ICD-11
- Pediatric clinical conditions
- Detailed clinical and/or coding guidance for common adult diagnoses
- Burns
- Procedural coding
- High-impact clinical conditions
- Quality topics such as
- Mortality
- Audits
- Patent Safety Indicators
- Regulatory updates
- Compliance
- Risk adjustment
- HCCs
- CDI in expanding settings such as:
- Outpatient
- Pediatrics
- Obstetrics and labor and delivery
- VA hospitals
- Critical access hospitals
- Long-term acute care
- Foundational and expanding CDI focus areas such as:
- Denials and appeals
- Utilization review/utilization management
- Queries
- Physician engagement and education
- Metrics and return on investment
- Second-level reviews
- Clinical validation
- Artificial intelligence
ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI (April 19–20, 2026)
- Building an outpatient CDI program
- Expanding an existing outpatient CDI program
- Ambulatory or provider office-specific CDI
- Value-based care
- Evaluation and management (E/M) coding
- Medicare Advantage
- Regulatory updates
- Compliance
- Hierarchical Condition Categories
- Risk adjustment
- Clinical validation
- Pediatrics
- CDI in the emergency department and in observation
- Key performance indicators and performance metrics
- Clinical conditions commonly seen in the outpatient setting
- Data analytics and artificial intelligence
ACDIS Physician Advisor Forum (April 19–20, 2026)
- Building a physician advisor program
- Expanding a physician advisor program
- Recruiting and retaining physician advisors
- Coding for physician advisors
- Denials and appeals
- Burnout symptoms and management
- Physician advisors in outpatient CDI
- Hierarchical Condition Categories
- Risk adjustment
- Collaboration with other departments
- Pediatrics
- Educating residents about CDI
- Metrics and return on investment
- Data analytics and artificial intelligence
Questions? Email ACDIS Editorial Manager, Products & Events Karla Kozak at karla.kozak@hcpro.com.
Note: Proposals need not be limited to these topics, and submitting one of these topics does not guarantee that you will be selected for an event.