Topic suggestions for 2027 ACDIS events

Interested in submitting a proposal for one of our 2027 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 (May 16–19, 2027)

• Professional development and leadership topics such as:
  • Retention, employee engagement, and succession planning
  • Remote work
  • Leadership skills (e.g., emotional intelligence, conflict resolution)
  • Mentoring
  • Writing job descriptions and building career ladders
  • Onboarding new team members
  • Developing and supporting existing team members
• Clinical and coding topics such as:
  • Pediatric focuses, including:
    • Cardiology
    • Oncology
  • Detailed clinical and/or coding guidance for adult diagnoses, including:
    • Burns or skin failure
    • Sepsis and SOFA
    • Oncology/neoplasms
    • Types of MI
    • Functional quadriplegia
    • Critical illness myopathy
    • Respiratory failure
  • Complications
  • Procedure coding
• Quality topics such as:
  • Mortality and readmissions
  • Audits
  • Patent Safety Indicators and exclusions
  • Regulatory updates
  • Compliance
  • Risk adjustment
  • Hierarchical Condition Categories
  • Medicare Advantage
  • CMS initiatives, such as TEAM
  • Failure to rescue
• CDI in settings such as:
  • Outpatient
  • Ambulatory
  • Pediatrics and PICU
  • Neonatal and NICU
  • Obstetrics and labor and delivery
  • Behavioral health and psychiatry
  • VA hospitals
  • Critical access/rural hospitals
  • Long-term acute care
  • Rehab facilities
• CDI focus areas such as:
  • Denials mitigation and appeals writing
  • Utilization review/utilization management
  • Queries
  • Physician engagement and education
  • Return on investment and impact calculations
  • Second-level reviews
  • Clinical validation
  • Artificial intelligence (AI) and AI governance
  • Data and analytics

ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI (May 16–17, 2027)

• Building an outpatient CDI program
• Expanding an existing outpatient CDI program
• Ambulatory or provider office-specific CDI
• Post-encounter/post-visit reviews
• Value-based care
• Evaluation and management (E/M) coding
• Medicare Advantage
• Regulatory updates
• Compliance and Office of Inspector General targets
• Hierarchical Condition Categories (both CMS-HCCs and HHS-HCCs)
• Risk adjustment
• Clinical validation for conditions commonly seen in the outpatient/ambulatory setting
• Pediatrics in the outpatient/ambulatory setting
• CDI in the emergency department and in observation
• Key performance indicators and performance metrics
• Data analytics
• Artificial intelligence

ACDIS Physician Advisor Forum (May 16–17, 2027)

• Building a physician advisor program
• Expanding a physician advisor program
• Recruiting and retaining physician advisors
• Coding for physician advisors
• Conditions with common documentation improvement opportunities including sepsis, MI, encephalopathy, etc.
• Denials and appeals
• Outpatient CDI for physician advisors
• Hierarchical Condition Categories
• Risk adjustment
• Regulatory and compliance updates
• Medicare Advantage
• Value-based care
• Collaboration with other departments
• Pediatrics
• Educating residents about CDI
• Case-mix index
• Metrics and return on investment
• Data analytics
• Artificial intelligence

Questions? Email ACDIS Editorial Manager, Products & Events Karla Kozak at karla.kozak@hcpro.com.

Note: Proposals do not need be limited to these topics, and submitting one of these topics does not guarantee that you will be selected for an event.