ACDIS Online: CDI Summer Retreat

During this session, Peterson shares tools that can immediately be used to build personal resilience as well as tools to help positively impact those around us. Participants will complete a self-assessment to identify current strengths and opportunities for growth as well as exploring key areas of resilience including growth mindset, self-compassion, optimism, and innovation.

Professional success is always at the forefront of our minds. We read about it, we hear about it and we want it for ourselves. But what prevents us from reaching our maximum potential? The answer is quite simple… we do! During this session, Elizabeth Aguirre, MD, CCDS, an inpatient clinical documentation physician lead in Texas, encourages participants to slow down and focus on the personal development necessary to become their best selves.

Too often, organizations see denials as a detraction from the benefits of CDI reviews. Ronald Singell, RN, CCDS, CDI specialist at TMC Healthcare in Tucson, Arizona, says such denials can provide CDI program insight and build clinical knowledge. During this session, participants will understand how to leverage denials into educational and collaborative opportunities.

Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CDIP, CCDS, CDI education specialist and CDI Boot Camp instructor for HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts, explores how CDI specialists’ roles of differ from that of traditional coding or clinical roles and how applying compliant coding and querying practices are essential aspects of any CDI program. Participants will learn how the ACDIS Code of Ethics, Guidelines for Compliant Query Practices, and the evolution of the medical record all play a part in helping CDI professionals practice their craft effectively.

Misty Hollandsworth, RN, CCDS, CDI supervisor and Amber Horton, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDI specialist for Parkview Health, share their effort to adapt physician education to a virtual platform. During this session, participants will explore opportunities to collaborate with coding on education, understand challenges and benefits of transitioning to a virtual platform, and focus in on top concerns Parkview reviewed in collaboration with its hospitalist physician team.

Submit your questions any time during the event day and join us live with selected speakers from our three-day event. Join the conversation! Check back soon for confirmed speakers.

Regulatory Committee Update: Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS, chair of the ACDIS Regulatory Committee and the CDI physician advisor at Baptist Health in Jacksonville, Florida, and Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDI education specialist and CDI Boot Camp instructor for HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts, discuss proposed changes to the inpatient prospective payment system, how to compose effective feedback to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) related to those changes, and how to best address regulatory concerns related to CDI practices.

William Rivas, CDI manager/educator at AdventHealth in Deland, Florida, shares tips related to successfully onboarding 14 new hires into frontline CDI roles at his facility while working remotely. Rivas focuses on how to grow the team, improve productivity metrics, and train new hires with no CDI experience.

With this presentation, Vladimir-Ducarmel “Vlad’” Joseph, MD, provider CDI education lead for Trinity Health of New England in Hartford, Connecticut, shares the evolution of provider CDI education and engagement within his organization while touching base on the barriers and methods to efficiently engage providers.

Sharon Krug, Med, BSBA, RN, CCDS, teaches attendees how clinical career ladders, advanced CDI roles, CDI education, performance management, and remote work can all lead to greater staff satisfaction.

During this session, Steven L. Griffin, DNP, RN, CCM, CCDS, senior CDI director at Ascension Health in Soddy Daisy, Tennessee, explores the theory of “Mutually Accountable Leadership (MAL),” an evidence-based management philosophy which asserts that managers and employees are equally accountable to each other for the success of the team. Participants will gain a methodological understanding of MAL and learn how to incorporate such practices into their own programs.

Hassan Rao, MD, and Pence Livingston, BSN, RN, offers attendees an opportunity to learn an efficient system of tracking and reporting to identify highly accurate financial and quality metrics with an eye toward how these metrics can be developed and tracked without the need for sophisticated CDI software.

Do you have physicians or other clinicians who get the same queries over and over again? Join Clarissa Barnes, MD, physician advisor at Avera, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to understand how to help your providers learn from their queries as you adapt education to each individual. In this session, attendees will explore Avera’s comprehensive but individualized education plan and learn how to leverage known query data to target areas of learning for clinicians.