Full Alert! A Guide to Improving Trauma Service Documentation

Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS. While achieving buy-in from trauma service physicians may seem incredibly daunting, it is possible to effect meaningful change. Learn how the CDI program at...

Building a Resilient CDI Program by Creating a Second-Level Review Team

Aliette Castor, CCS, CCDS, and Marie G. Mathieu, MS, RN, NE-BC, CDIP, CCDS. Hear how Hackensack University Medical Center started a CDI second-level review team that looks at charts post-...

Evolve Your CDI Program With the Changing Quality Landscape

Vicki Galyean, BSN, RN, CCDS; Tamara A. Hicks, MHA, BSN, RN, CCS, CCDS, CCDS-O; and Erik Christian Summers, MD, FACP. Join this session to learn how Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s clinical...

Key Conversations: Cracking the Code of a Multigenerational Workplace

Ella Elizee, MSN, APRN, CCDS, and Gregory S. Simms, RN, CCDS. As the popularity of the CDI profession booms, younger workers are taking up the clinical spyglass and diving into record review ...

Engaging New Sites: Community and Critical Access Hospitals

Jessie Roske, MD, FHM, and Ann Zierden, RN, CCDS. Participants will hear one health system’s journey to expand its CDI program to critical access and community hospitals. The speakers will identify the...

What’s in a Drop? Interpreting CBC Results

Rhoda Chism, MHL, RN, CCDS, CCS, CPHQ, and Sylvia Luna, MSN, RN, CCDS. Join this session to understand the components of complete blood count (CBC) lab reports and various disease processes associated with abnormal...

From Worst, Our Way to First: Our Quality Improvement Journey

Jennifer Brettler, DO, CHCQM-PHYADV; Kimberly Seery, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, CHDA, CPC, CRC; and Danielle N. Thompson, MSM, BSN, RN-BC. In this session, attendees will learn how to leverage a ...

From Worst, Our Way to First: Our Quality Improvement Journey

Jennifer Brettler, DO, CHCQM-PHYADV; Kimberly Seery, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, CHDA, CPC, CRC; and Danielle N. Thompson, MSM, BSN, RN-BC. In this session, attendees will learn how to leverage a ...

Denials Management: A CDI Approach to DRG Validations

Marilyn Sanchez, BSN, RN, CCDS, and Sharra Way, RN, CCDS. In this session, the speakers will provide strategies for implementing a CDI-based denials management team. Attendees will gain tools for denials...

Emerging Opportunities for CDI in the SNF

Kalena Britt, RN, BSN, CCM, CCDS. The change to the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) for skilled nursing facilities (SNF) as of FY 2020 resulted in the increased importance of documentation to support ICD-10-CM...

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