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Sepsis. Septic shock. SIRS. Septicemia. Whether you’re new to the coding or CDI specialist profession or have been working in the field for decades, you know that accurately capturing the documentation needed for appropriate code assignment of sepsis-related diagnosis can be tricky—or downright difficult—given the wide variety of definitions physicians use and the rules governing code assignment.

In this webinar, experts James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, and Paul Evans, RHIA, CCDS, CCS, CCS-P, break out their dictionaries, dust off their history and rule books, and offer up their clinical acumen to help you decipher documentation improvement opportunities.

At the conclusion of this program, you will be able to:

Identify and contrast Sepsis-3 definitions, clinical indicators (e.g., SOFA, qSOFA), and supplemental advice from the Surviving Sepsis campaign
Explain the differences between the Sepsis-2 and Sepsis-3 clinical criteria and terminology
Incorporate new clinical criteria into existing clinical and coding workflows and processes
Explain key coding and quality documentation requirements associated with sepsis-related diagnoses
Compose effective queries related to the new definitions

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Meet the Speakers

James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, is the president of CDIMD-Physician Champions, a Nashville-based group of physicians, coders, and clinicians engaged nationwide as CDI physician advisors, ICD-10 medical informaticists, and DRG and HCC compliance advocates. His experience includes the private practice of medicine along with successful entrepreneurial healthcare-related business startups in the public and private sector. His expertise includes physician and hospital leadership, healthcare systems improvement, healthcare documentation and coding compliance, and government relations. He previously served on the ACDIS Advisory Board.

Paul Evans, RHIA, CCDS, CCS, CCS-P, is a clinical documentation integrity manager at a large healthcare firm located in California. Evans holds degrees in business administration and healthcare information management. He previously worked as a data quality coordinator, senior internal auditor, a project manager for a national consulting firm, and as the director of various HIM departments. A member of both the American Health Information Management Association and the ACDIS Advisory Board, he has published or contributed to multiple articles regarding quality and data management and has been a featured speaker for various educational seminars.

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