Join us as Outpatient CDI takes
center stage | | | | Outpatient CDI means different things to different people in the industry. CDI professionals have spent the past decade delving into reimbursement, coding, and documentation rules governing healthcare outside the “traditional” acute inpatient care space. CDI departments nationwide are increasingly exploring what it means to move clinical documentation integrity into a variety of outpatient settings.
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| | | What can you expect? | | Join us for our three-day online symposium to hear first-hand how program leaders and staff have structured their outpatient efforts.Obtain tools related to outpatient policies and procedures, CDI staffing structures, and query processes. Get tips and best practices for provider engagement in busy physician practice offices.
Check out a few Day 1 & 2 agenda highlights below! |
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| | | | | | | Fire Up So You Don’t Burn Out: How to Prevent, Break Through, and Extinguish Burnout (and the Power of Resiliency) - KEYNOTE | | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m | Jessica Rector
Burnout is like a wildfire… spreading quickly and affecting everything in its path. Jessica Rector shares her Burnout Success Formula, the misconceptions with burnout, and easy-to-implement actionable steps to improve motivation, productivity, and mind wellness. She is not just talk; she demonstrates strategies, so you know exactly how to do them (and why they are important). .
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| | | | | A Team Approach to Outpatient Denials: CDI and Coding Working to Improve Documentation and Reduce Outpatient Denials | | 12:00 p.m. – 12:50 p.m. - Kim Conner, BSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, and Camille Ruiz, RHIA
CDI’s role in the outpatient setting has not traditionally included evaluation and management (E/M), but with the increased volume of outpatient denials, E/M leveling and professional billing regulation can no longer be siloed. Collaboration between CDI, professional coders, HIM, and the revenue cycle team is essential in reducing denials. |
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| | | | | Live Panel Discussion | | 1:10 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Join outpatient CDI experts Kim Conner, BSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, Tami McMasters-Gomez, MHL, CCDS, CDIP, and Jessica Vaughn, DNP, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CRC, for a lively discussion moderated by ACDIS Director of Programming Rebecca Hendren. Topics to be discussed include: Risk adjustment and problem diagnoses,
queries and IT tools (2022 ACDIS/AHIMA Query Practice Brief update/What works and what doesn’t), and artificial intelligence (AI) in the outpatient CDI space |
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| | | | | Ambulatory Clinical Documentation Excellence: An Ongoing Process | | 1:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. - Denice Hebert, RN, CCDS-O, Lisa Schmidt, BS, RN, and Hilary Walters, BSN, RN
Ochsner’s outpatient CDI program is one of the earliest in the country and this session will discuss the highs and lows of getting the program off the ground and where the program is headed in the future. The speakers will cover opportunities for record review, how they educate providers about documentation improvement opportunities related to their medical records, and much more! |
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| | | | | Ambulatory Adventures in CDI | | 2:10 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. - Jennifer Boles, BS, CPC, CRC, CCDS-O
Follow the five-year long adventure of developing and expanding an ambulatory CDI program, including how to choose staff and which certifications make for a good fit. Boles will cover varied ways to track productivity, examine focus areas, select projects, determine strategies, and identify specialties on which to focus resources. |
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| | | | | Clinical Risk Adjustment: Ensuring Compliance through Complete and Accurate Documentation and Coding | | 2:00 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. - Wilson Gabbard, FACHE, and David Enevoldsen, CRCR
During this session, the speakers will discuss critical success factors and program framework to leverage while developing an ambulatory CDI program—with an emphasis on clinical risk adjustment—while reviewing case studies that have achieved outsized impacts. |
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| | | | | What’s the Risk? Understanding Risk Adjustment Across the Healthcare Continuum | | 3:30 p.m. – 4:20 p.m. - Jessica M. Vaughn, DNP, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CRC
Risk adjustment is becoming a popular theme in CDI. But few understand what it is and why it matters. This session will explore the elements and different models of risk adjustment and the importance of using HCC codes to accurately reflect patient care and improve value-based outcomes. |
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| | | | | Outpatient Query Creation and Compliance | | 3:20 p.m. – 4:10 p.m. - Kenzi Brooks, CCDS-O, CCS, COC, CRC, CPC-A
Join Kenzi Brooks for a look at compliant querying in the outpatient setting and how West Virginia Medicine created a process for writing and communicating compliant queries. Brooks will discuss the difficulties in getting queries to healthcare professionals in the outpatient setting, along with how West Virginia Medical is now able to communicate with providers and track their responses to queries. |
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