Clinical Validation for Newborns: New Sepsis and Jaundice Guidelines
Lucinda Lo, MD, and Sheilah J. Snyder, MD, FAAP. This session will review new clinical practice updates in pediatrics, including febrile infant and hyperbilirubinemia guidelines. Specifically, ...
To Query or Not to Query: A Decision-Tree Approach to Sepsis
Heather J. Luton, BSN, RN, CCDS, and Jillian Mazurek, MSN/Ed, RN, CCDS, CCS. CDI departments across the country struggle with identifying and validating sepsis. This is especially difficult when one’s...
Diagnoses That Challenge Providers: A Physician Advisor Perspective
Timothy Brundage, MD, CCDS, and Hassan Rao, MD, CPC, CCS. Providers, CDI professionals, and coders each use a different lens when viewing the health record, and it is often difficult for...
Rhoda Chism, MHL, RN, CCDS, CCS, CPHQ, and Sheila Duhon, eMBA, RN, CCDS, CCS, A-CCRN. In this session, hear how the speakers recognized that documentation was skewing quality reporting at their organization. In an effort to...
Flourishing by Design: Building Organizational Structure and Partnerships for a Flourishing CDI Department
Jessica Risner, BSN, RN, CCDS, and Beth Simms, BSN, RN, CCDS. CDI departments are subject to many forces of change: CMS, internal stakeholders, technology,...
Joy Bombay, RN, MSN, MHA, CCDS, and Sandra H. Love, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CPC. The pediatric CDI program at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist has enhanced documentation integrity by capturing diagnoses that can improve outcomes for...
Kimberly M. Huff, BA, COC, CCDS, and Robin Sewell, CDIP, CCDS-O, CCS, CPC, CIC. The root cause of many coding and clinical validation denials can be traced to a lack of overlapping knowledge between coding and CDI...
Leveraging Data to Improve CDI Outcomes Beyond $$$
Kearstin Jorgenson, MS, CPC, COC; Laura Ogaard, RN, MSN; and Sathya Vijayakumar, MS, MBA. Attendees will learn how the CDI team at Intermountain Healthcare has evolved to efficiently evaluate the impact of...
Shoot for the Stars: How CDI Can Assist in Obtaining a Better CMS Star Rating
Cheryl Manchenton, RN, BSN. The healthcare industry’s focus on the CMS Five-Star Quality Rating System for inpatient hospitals continues to increase. Understanding the Five-Star...
Evolving Communication in a Changing Work Environment
Karen Lynn Armetta, RN, CCS, CCDS, and Sydney Neblett, CCS, CCDS. This session will review the changes one coding/CDI team implemented when transitioning to a fully remote functional unit. Attendees will learn...
