Seminars

Thursday, May 10, 2012

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Registration and breakfast

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Keynote address – Change: The Choice is Ours
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Janet Lapp

9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. General session – Medicare claims recoupment: Case study of Department of Justice settlement
Benjamin S. Schecter, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Western District of Kentucky; Sarah B. Morris, Benefit Integrity Analyst, AdvanceMed Corporation

10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Networking break in exhibit hall

10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Breakout sessions (Choose one of three)

1. "Rock – A – Bye Baby" – Implementing CDI in women's and children's units
   Linda Rhodes, RN, BSN, CCDS; Monique Halyard, RN, CNOR
2. The CDI profession: Results of research study
   Gary David, PhD
3. Documentation is everything – No, really, it is everything!
   Vicki Sullivan Davis, RN

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Networking lunch and awards ceremony

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Breakout sessions (Choose one of three)

1. The kidney disease acronym spectrum: ARI, CKD, AKI, ARF, and ESRD
   Trey La Charite', MD
2. The art of communication in CDI and beyond
   Colleen Stukenberg, MSN, RN, CMSRN, CCDS 
3. CDI from home? How to implement and maintain a successful, productive telecommuting arrangement
   Michelle Callahan, RN, BSN, CCDS, CRCR; Jillian Fore, RN, MPH, ACM

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Networking break in exhibit hall

3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Breakout sessions (Choose one of three)

1. Focusing CDI for success with ICD – 10
   Mary Stanfill, MBI, RHIA, CCS, CCS – P, FAHIMA
2. CDI career ladder: Two perspectives
   Jennifer Love, RN, BA, CCDS; Janet Gentle, RN, BSN, MSN, CCDS
3. CMS Value Based Purchasing: Methodology and documentation opportunities
   Kristen Geissler

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Breakout sessions (Choose one of three)

1. Dear CDI – Please help! Resolving CDS and coder disagreements
   Kay Piper, RHIA, CCS
2. "Herding cats on a shoe string": Using low – cost tools to improve physician buy – in
   Catherine Morris, RN, MS, CCM, CMAC; Alice Greene, MD
3. Take your coding to the next level – clinical
   Michelle Custodio, BS, RHIA, CCDS; Vickie Balistreri, BA, RHIA, CCDS, CCS, CCS – P, CPC, CPC – H

5:30 p.m. Adjourn

Friday, May 11, 2011

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast in exhibit hall

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Breakout sessions (Choose one of three)

1. Coding Clinic updates for CDI
   James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS
2. Challenges of the EHR and electronic querying
   Joy Coletti, MBA, RN, CCDS
3. Improving CDI: Taking your program from good to great
   Fran Jurcak, RN, MSN, CCDS

9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Breakout sessions (Choose one of three)

1. ICD – 10 … The journey continues
   Adelaide M. La Rosa, RN, BSN, CCDS
2. Metrics: Measuring the impact of CDI and coder contributions
   Eric Ryland, RHIA, CHDA, CCS, CPC
3. Taking CDI to the next level: Building a successful observation CDI team
   Carnell E. Hall, DD, MBA/HCM, RHIA

10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Networking break in exhibit hall

10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Breakout sessions (Choose one of three)

1. Capturing shock in the ICU setting\
   Cindy Pritchett, RN, BSN
2. Tactics for reducing the RAC target on your organization
   Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN
3. Case study: How partnership with medical directors, clinical integration specialists, and coders impacts patient care
   Holly Flynn, RN, CCRN; Gene Peterson, MD, PhD

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Local chapter lunch and exhibit

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Breakout sessions (Choose  one of three)

1. ICD – 10 – CM/PCS: Specific documentation requirements and case studies
   Stephanie Samuels, MS, RN, CCS; Okemena Ewoterai, MA, RN, CCDS
2. RAC targets: The best offense is a good defense
   Vickie Balistreri, BA, RHIA, CCDS, CCS, CCS – P, CPC, CPC – H
3. Using outcomes data to effect change with CDI
   Richard D. Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS

2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Breakout sessions (Choose one of three)

1. Complex cardiac diagnoses often missed
   Sandy Miller, MD
2. Clinical documentation improvement as a response to federal recoupment strategies
   Barry S. Herrin, CHPS, FACHE, ESQ
3. Advanced practice CDI: Using a patient – centric model to take your program to the next level
   Jennifer Woodworth, RN, BSN, CCDS; Annabaker Garber, RN, PHD

3:45 p.m. Adjourn

• Develop strategies to improve physician participation in CDI programs
• Create a plan to ensure Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) preparedness through CDI
• Construct optimal techniques for medical record review and appropriate queries in traditional and severity of illness-based CDI programs
• Strengthen knowledge of documentation and coding requirements under forthcoming ICD-10-CM and ICD-10 PCS systems
• Modify existing CDI programs to include observation case review and electronic health records processes
• Apply greater clinical knowledge of complex diagnoses and conditions such as shock and kidney disease to strengthen physician queries
• Use data mining and reporting in your CDI program
• Explain how healthcare reform initiatives will impact the CDI profession
• Develop policies for integrating HIM/coding staff into CDI programs
• Incorporate quality initiatives into your existing CDI program
• Develop a career ladder to encourage professional growth of CDI staff members
• Apply lessons learned from legal cases involving documentation and coding to improve compliance

Who should attend?

• CDI specialists
• CDI managers/directors
• Coding compliance directors/managers
• HIM directors
• Case management directors/managers
• Revenue cycle directors
• Physician champions/advisors to CDI
• Quality improvement professionals
• Coding compliance specialists
• DRG coordinators
• Inpatient coders
• Coding managers/supervisors

Janet Lapp MD

Dr. Lapp is a former registered nurse and nurse manager, clinical psychologist, and professor. Lapp was born and raised in Canada, and her PhD is from McGill University in Montreal. She is the creator and host of the award-winning CBS series 'Keep Well' and author of five books including: Dancing with Tigers, Plant your Feet Firmly in Mid-Air, Positive SpinT, Why Won't They Listen to Me? and Leading at the Edge of Change. For the past 20 years she has been creating a mindset for positive change in populations from Russia to Argentina, and from Fortune 100 organizations to the underserved in Central Mexico.

Vickie Balistreri BA, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-H

Ms. Balistreri has over 27 years of healthcare experience and is currently teaching and training new clinical documentation specialists and physicians at JA Thomas & Associates. She has worked for Corporate HCA as a DRG auditor and her experience includes compliant query monitoring and RAC defense.

Michelle Callahan RN, BSN, CCDS, CRCR

Ms. Callahan helped launch and later manage the successful Clinical Documentation Improvement Program (CDIP) at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN in 2005. Since August 2010, she has served as clinical documentation integrity regional manager for Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA.

Joy Coletti MBA, RN, CCDS
Director of Clinical Documentation Improvement at Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in Houston, TX

Ms. Coletti is director of clinical documentation improvement at Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in Houston, TX. She manages over 20 CDI specialists at nine acute care facilities. Prior to her current position, she implemented new CDIS programs at community hospitals throughout Texas and conducted over 25 on-site CDIS trainings as an independent consultant.

Michelle Custodio BS, RHIA, CCDS

Ms. Custodio is the system CDI program manager at Banner Health System for over 14 years. She has implemented a home-grown CDI program for 19 hospitals in eight states and developed many tools and tips for monitoring performance and productivity.

Gary David PhD

Mr. David is an associate professor in the department of sociology for Bentley University in Waltham, MA. He has conducted more than five years of research on healthcare documentation, including medical transcription, speech recognition technology, EHRs, and for the last six months the CDI profession.

Vicki Sullivan Davis RN

Ms. Davis is the clinical documentation improvement manager at Alamance Regional Medical Center in Burlington, NC.

 

Cheryl Ericson MS, RN

Ms. Ericson is the manager of the Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) department at a large academic medical center in South Carolina. She has an extensive background in adult education, data analysis, healthcare revenue cycle, and CMS guidelines. Ericson also serves as a member of the ACDIS advisory board.

Okemena Ewoterai MA, RN, CCDS, CCS
Documentation Improvement Manager at Montefiore Medical Center, in Bronx, NY

Manager for the clinical documentation improvement program at Montefiore Medical Center, in Bronx, NY.

 

Holly Flynn RN, CCRN, CCDS

Ms. Flynn is a medical quality & clinical documentation improvement consultant who works with physicians and clinical teams using a care focused model to improve the accuracy and completeness of clinical documentation. Previously, Flynn held the position as the medical quality improvement consultant/coordinator reporting directly to the medical director of the University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) in Seattle. She also served as the manager of the clinical documentation program, where she provided organizational leadership for the first clinical documentation program at UWMC. Flynn has more than 26 years of critical care nursing and leadership experience in Canada and the United States.

Jillian Fore RN, MPH, ACM

Ms. Fore served as a Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) regional manager for Kaiser Permanente (KP) in Oakland, CA. Since August of 2011, she has chosen to work remotely from Redding, CA, as a staff level CDI senior consultant.

Annabaker Garber PhD, RN

Director of care delivery efficiency and effectiveness for Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, WA. This role encompasses components of process improvement, informatics, quality, and financial analysis.

 

Kristen Geissler MS, PT, MBA, CPHQ

Ms. Geissler is a principal with the Berkeley Research Group in Baltimore, MD. She has more than 15 years' experience in the health care field, both in direct patient care and administrative and consulting roles. She has expertise in various quality-based reimbursement methodologies, including CMS IQR (Inpatient Quality Reporting) and VBP (Value Based Purchasing).

Janet Gentle RN, BSN, MSN, CCDS

Ms. Gentle is a clinical documentation specialist at Northern Michigan Regional Hospital in Petoskey, Michigan. She is the 2011-2012 Clinical Ladder Council Chair.

 

Alice Greene MD

Dr. Greene is an assistant professor of medicine who has over 15 years of experience in both inpatient and outpatient internal medicine. For the past five years she has served as the medical director of care management at Stony Brook University Medical Center in NY while maintaining her clinical role as a hospitalist.

Carnell E. Hall DD, MBA/HCM, RHIA

Dr. Hall works for Duke University as a revenue integrity auditor for the Program Revenue Management Organization (PRMO) in Durham, NC. She has over 11 years of progressive healthcare experience with an extensive background in Health Information Management.

Monique Halyard RN, CNOR

Ms. Halyard is a clinical documentation specialist at New Hanover Regional Medical Center and was instrumental in the development and implementation of the CDI program in the Women and Children's hospital at New Hanover. Her prior healthcare experience includes five years as a staff nurse in the operating room and three years as a professional coder.

Barry S. Herrin CHPS, FACHE, ESQ.,

Mr. Herrin is a partner with Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP. He regularly represents health care providers in all segments of the industry. He is admitted to the bars of Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina. Herrin is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and is Certified in Healthcare Privacy and Security by AHIMA.

Fran Jurcak RN, MSN, CCDS

Ms Jurcak is a director with Huron Healthcare's Clinical Documentation Improvement practice in Chicago, IL.

 

 

James S. Kennedy MD, CCS
Director in the FTI Healthcare group of FTI's corporate finance practice in Brentwood, TN

Dr. Kennedy is a director in the FTI Healthcare group of FTI's corporate finance practice in Brentwood, TN. 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 also serves on the ACDIS advisory board.

Trey La Charité MD
Physician Advisor

Dr. La Charité is the physician advisor for the University of Tennessee Medical Center's clinical documentation integrity project and for coding. Dr. La Charité completed his internship and residency training in internal medicine at UTMCK and is currently an assistant professor in the department of internal medicine and a hospitalist at UTMCK. He also serves on the ACDIS advisory board.

Adelaide M. La Rosa RN, BSN, CCDS

Ms La Rosa is the initiator, developer, and director of the CDI program at St Francis Hospital in Roslyn, NY, which now includes a staff of 18. She has 26 years of varied clinical health care and leadership experience and extensive knowledge of healthcare revenue cycle, ICD-9-CM coding rules and regulations, and DRG methodology. She is the founder of New York ACDIS chapter whose membership now includes 11 hospitals. She was a recipient of the 2010 CDI Professional Achievement Award at the third annual ACDIS conference.

Jennifer Love RN, BA, CCDS

Ms. Love is the area director of CDI for Kindred Healthcare in Greensboro, North Carolina and Richmond, Virginia. She is a recipient of the 2010 ACDIS Recognition of CDI Professional Achievement award.

 

Sandra Miller, MD

Dr. Miller is a independent consultant located in Palm Beach Gardens, FLA. She was a senior manager of case management at a level II trauma center and is a board certified internist with more than 20 years experience in the healthcare industry.

Catherine Morris RN, MS, CCM, CMAC

Ms. Morris is the executive director of care management and CDI program administrator at Stony Brook University Medical Center in NY. She has over 30 years of healthcare experience spanning multiple aspects of the continuum, including administrative roles in the clinical, provider, and payer arenas. She has been an active member of the NYC CMSA chapter for over ten years serving as treasurer, president, past-president, and board member. She was awarded national CMSA Case Manager of the Year for 2009.

Sarah Morris

Ms. Morris is a Benefit Integrity Analyst for AdvanceMed Corporation, an NCI Company, Medicare's Program Safeguard Contractor for Kentucky. Her expertise includes Medicare IPPS and OPPS fraud and abuse schemes.

Gene Peterson MD, PhD

Dr. Peterson is associate professor of anesthesiology and the associate medical director for quality at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle and is co-director of the Center for Clinical Excellence. Concurrent with his administrative responsibilities, Dr. Peterson remains active as a clinician in the department of anesthesiology.

Richard D. Pinson MD, FACP, CCS

Dr. Pinson is co-founder and principal of HCQ Consulting in Houston, TX, and co-author with Cynthia L. Tang, RHIA, CCS, of The 2012 CDI Pocket Guide.

 

Kay Piper RHIA, CCS

Ms. Piper is lead auditor-analyst for Compliant Documentation Improvement (CDI) at SSM Healthcare, St. Louis, MO.

 

Cindy Pritchett RN, BSN

Ms. Pritchett is a clinical documentation specialist at Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas, Texas.

 

 

Linda Rhodes RN, BSN, CCDS

Ms. Rhodes is the manager of the clinical documentation improvement program for the 760-bed New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, NC, which has a staff of 12 CDI professionals. She has over 34 years of healthcare experience including critical care nursing, nursing management and education.

Eric Ryland RHIA, CHDA, CCS, CPC

Mr. Ryland is the manager of coding at Denver Health Medical Center in Denver, CO.

 

 

Stephanie Samuels MS, RN, CCS

Ms. Samuels is an AHIMA Approved ICD 10-CM/PCS Trainer and manager for the CDI program at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, NY.

 

Benjamin Schecter JD

Mr. Schecter is an Assistant United States Attorney with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Kentucky. He is the Affirmative Civil Enforcement Coordinator and Civil Health Care Fraud Coordinator for this office, where he devotes a substantial amount of his practice to prosecuting civil health care fraud cases.

Mary Stanfill MBI, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, FAHIMA

Ms. Stanfill is vice president of HIM Consulting Services for United Audit Systems, Inc. in Cincinnati, OH. She has over 25 years of experience within the HIM arena, serving as the vice president of HIM Practice Resources for AHIMA from 2006 to 2011. She has been directly involved in the ICD-10 implementation process and the review of code changes.

Colleen Stukenberg MSN, RN, CMSRN, CCDS

Ms. Stukenberg is a clinical documentation management professional at FHN Memorial Hospital in Freeport, IL, where she piloted a successful CDI program.

 

Jennifer Woodworth RN, BSN, CCDS

Ms. Woodworth is the director of the Clinical Documentation Integrity Program for Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, WA.

Speakers subject to change.

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