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Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) is just emerging in home health and hospice, and like so many changes in healthcare, it pays to stay ahead of the curve. Join home health coding expert Joan L. Usher to learn how CDI allows you to improve your agency's productivity and uncover the steps for creating a CDI program.
This comprehensive 90-minute webinar will help you: - Understand CDI in home health and hospice
- Why is it essential now?
- Brief history of CDI
- Learn the steps for creating a CDI program
- Best structure for your program
- Necessary qualifications
- Needed policies for program support
- Recognize an effective query that meets regulatory standards
- Guidance for query development
- Reviewing the record for clinical factors
- Reviewing for common documentation deficiencies
- Test Your Knowledge examples demonstrating how quality documentation impacts outcomes
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Meet our Expert Trainer
 Joan L. Usher, BS, RHIA, ACE, AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM trainer, is the president of JLU Health Record Systems and is a nationally recognized expert in the field of ICD-10-CM coding and health information management. She has been consulting for more than 30 years and has been a certified OASIS specialist for over nine years. Joan is the author of The CDI Guide for Home Health & Hospice. She received the Distinguished Member Award from the Massachusetts Health Information Management Association in 2017. Joan is also a Board of Director for the Home Care Alliance of MA and the Hospice & Palliative Care Federation of MA. |
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