The Top 25: If You Can Make It Here, You Will Make It EVERYWHERE!
Candace Blankenship, RN, CCDS, Clinical Project Manager with Iodine Software, based in in Austin, Texas
During this presentation, participants will learn how the top 25 codes in the final...

A Breath of Fresh Air: Pediatric Respiratory Failure
Pam McCall, BSN, RN, CCM, CPN, and Marietta Morhardt, BSN, RN, CPN, CCM, CDI Specialists at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska
During this session, speakers will address the...

Why Mortality Reviews Matter
Sheri Blanchard, RN, MSN, FNP-BC, CCDS, CCS, CDI corporate director, and Julian Everett, RN, CDIP, regional CDI manager, at Orlando Health Hospital, Florida
A story can be told through documentation. Missing pages, chapters, and...

Gotcha! A CDI Physician Advisor’s Guide to Effective Chart Reviews
Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS, medical director for CDI and coding at the University of Tennessee Medical Center (UTMC) in Knoxville, Tennessee
Would you like to get more out of...

Defining and Querying for AKI and CKD: Could It Be ATN?
Rhoda Chism, RN, CCDS, CCS, Manager of CDI Audit and Education, and Sheila Duhon, MBA, RN, CCDS, A-CCRN, CCS, CDI Director from Steward Healthcare, in Dallas
Attendees will learn how the incidence of...

Using Custom HCC Tools and Workflows to Manage the Medicare Advantage Population
Kathryn McLaughlin, DNP, FNP-BC, Senior Clinical Advisor, Lead Risk Adjustment Nurse, and Jessica M. Thurman, MBA, Certified Physician Assistant, Risk Adjustment Provider, from Scripps...

Risk Adjustment: Why CMI and SOI/ROM Aren’t Enough
Cheryl Ericson, RN, CDIP, CCDS, Clinical Program Manager at Iodine Software in Austin, Texas
Many CDI specialists working in the inpatient setting are unfamiliar with HCCs, a risk-adjustment tool based on...

The Power of CDI Metrics
Tara Bell, RN, CCDS, CCM, CDI/UM Manager, and Staci L. Josten, RN, CCDS, Director of CDI/UR services for UASI in Des Moines, Iowa
During this presentation, participants will learn how to improve CDI metrics to showcase program...

Back to the Laboratory! Assessing Lab Values for CDI Outcomes
Verona Lodholz, CCDS, CCS, MT(ASCP), DC, CDI director for Accuity Delivery Systems, LLC., based in New York, New York
Session attendees will learn how results from laboratory tests provide vast...

Ready, Set, Go: Launching an OP CDI Program From Start to Finish
Tami McMasters Gomez, CCDS, CDIP, BS, (MHL), CDI director, Shirlivia Parker, MHA, RHIA, CDIP, CDI manager, and Reggie Ahlfield, MBA-HA, BSHI, RN-BC, CDI specialist from University of California Medical...

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