Paola Dees, MD, is presenting a poster titled “Take 5 to improve satisfaction of resident CDI education” at the 2019 ACDIS conference. Dees is a pediatric hospitalist and medical director of utilization management, at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. Make sure to stop by her poster and say hello.

Every year, ACDIS celebrates exceptional CDI professionals through the ACDIS Achievement Awards. Nominations come from peers in the industry. The ACDIS Conference Committee then reviews applications and chooses the final winners. This process takes hours of work and dedication to complete. To read about the award criteria, nomination, and selection process.

This year’s winners are: Tamara A. Hicks, RN, BSN, MHA, CCS, CCDS, ACM, Paul Evans, RHIA, CCDS, CCS, CCS-P, Brigham Strelow, MD, CCDS, Barinder Gill, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, and Ashley Comiskey, MSN, RN!

This morning, two OIG representatives, Truman Mayfield, CPA, CPE, and Scott Perry, CPA, took the stage to discuss the OIG’s Work Plan, audit activities, and offer some words of wisdom (and perhaps consolation) to those under OIG scrutiny. To kick off the session, Mayfield discussed the ins and outs of the OIG’s various offices, how the Work Plan is developed and updated on a monthly basis, and how the various offices interact and intersect with each other. After covering the basics, Mayfield turned the podium over to Perry to discuss the different types of audits and some background into the methodologies for those audits. Perry emphasized the need for complete and accurate documentation.