Building an OP CDI Program: Where Do You Start? Tamara A. Hicks, RN, MHA, ACM-RN, CCS, CCDS, CCDS-O, director of clinical documentation excellence at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, plus Sandra Love, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CPC, senior...
Annual Wellness Visits: Creating a Process Using CDI Specialists Tamara A. Hicks, RN, MHA, ACM-RN, CCS, CCDS, CCDS-O, director of clinical documentation excellence at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, plus Sandra Love, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O...
Outpatient CDI Metrics and Management on a Shoestring Budget Barbi Kantner, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, lead CDI outpatient specialist, and Lori LaFaver, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDI director, at Reading Hospital-Tower Health System in West Reading, Pennsylvania
How do you...
Why Risk It All? Creating a Multidisciplinary Ambulatory CDI Program for a Fee-for-Service-Driven Academic Medical Center Sarah Kirchofer, MS, NP-C, NE-BC, primary care nurse director and board-certified nurse practitioner at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston,...
Risky Business: Introduction to Risk Adjustment Ashley Comiskey, MSN, RN, CCDS, quality director at Baptist Health Paducah in Paducah, Kentucky
During this session, participants will learn the basics of value-based care in the outpatient and inpatient...
Managing HCCs for Better Capture of Chronic Conditions and Improved RAF Scores Tonya Motsinger, MBA, RN, system CDI director at OhioHealth in Columbus, Ohio
In this case-study session, participants will learn best practices for implementing an HCC management...
Alternative Payment Models: Oncology and CDI Beth Wolf, MD, CPC, CCDS, medical director of HIM at Roper St. Francis Healthcare in Charleston, South Carolina
The Oncology Care Model, a five-year project (2016–2021) initiated by CMS, aimed to reduce the cost of...
Capturing Severity in the Outpatient Setting Susan Egan, CPC, CPMA, CRC, CEDC, associate director, Jessica M. Thurman, PA-C, MBA, MSPA, associate director of healthcare revenue cycle management-CDI, and April Vogel, RHIA, CHC, managing consultant, healthcare, at...
HCCs, Queries, and the Meteoric Rise of Telemedicine Encounters Mary Rogers, CCDS-O, CCS, CPC, COC, CRC, supervisor of CDI–professional practices, and Patricia Swierczynski, RN, CCDS, CRC, CCDS-O, manager, CDI department at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, New...
“Outpatient CDI” can mean a myriad of things. From outpatient clinics and physician practices to hospital-based outpatient services, CDI leaders looking to expand their program’s footprint have many avenues to explore. Leaders need to determine the top opportunities for their outpatient CDI...
