Elaine King, MHS, RHIA, CHP, CHDA, CDIP, FAHIMA, explores how emerging legislation and technology has created tremendous demand for CDI that extends beyond the traditional inpatient-focused initiatives into the outpatient arena. This session will explain how organizations can implement practical...
Bernadette Slovensky, RN, MSN, CCDS details how Stony Brook Medicine designed a CDI program for its emergency department with a focus on quality and capturing POAs. It will also explain how the effort required more than physician engagement and support. Practical solutions and best practices...
Teresa Hegard, RN, BSN, CCDS, and Emily Jazdzewski, RN, BSN, MAN, explore the too often overlooked area of psychiatry. Paying close attention to the details of this patient population can improve overall severity of illness and risk of mortality. CDI staff can emphasize the importance of the...
Trisha McCauliff Streb, RN, BSN, CCDS, focuses on the little understood and explored obstetrics service line. Most obstetrics patients are not Medicare, but many opportunities for improved APR billing/coding exist in this population. Participants will leave able to identify frequently missed...
Vicki Sullivan Davis, RN, Clinical Documentation Improvement Manager at Cone Health System at Alamance Regional in Burlington, N.C., provides participants with the tools to achieve excellence while confidently managing their CDI team. Davis outlines qualities a good leader should possess and...
In 2008, only 11% of respondents to an ACDIS poll indicated their CDI program either reviewed outpatient records for documentation improvement...Read More »
“If ICD- 10-PCS is not necessary, why the debate? Why should we bother assigning codes when we don’t have to?”The ICD-10 system was designed to...Read More »
