Deep Dive into Inpatient and Outpatient CDI

Why Should You Attend:

This program will discuss Clinical documentation improvement/integrity and how important documentation is.

Due to the impact a CDI program can have on risk scores/HCCs, MCC/CCs, medical necessity, quality, and reimbursement, looking closer about the medical record documentation is key.

Ensuring the communication within your CDI program is effective and produces positive results is essential.

Demands for High quality patient outcomes are increases and achieving these is more and more difficult in the changing landscape and compliance scrutiny. Obtain a deeper dive into inpatient and outpatient documentation improvement/integrity components.

Due to the growth of Medicare Advantage risk adjustment, the capture of complete and accurate chronic conditions drives the overall patient risk factor. Having documentation that compliantly support the diagnosis is critical for both inpatient and outpatient settings.

This webinar will help those in CDI and HIM Coding to enhance their documentation improvement activities.

Clinical documentation integrity or CDI is a growing part of healthcare. Increase of Medicare Advantage risk adjustment is based upon chronic conditions that need to be documented in the medical record encounter.

This program will help your inpatient and outpatient CDI program assess areas for improvement and/or change, which can result in positive results. Understanding the ins and outs of clinical documentation is challenging and confusing at times.

Gaining greater knowledge of the reportable conditions can help your MCC/CC and HCC capture rates.

There is increased compliance and scrutiny with incomplete or lacking clinical documentation to support the diagnosis and/or claim.

• Understand how to analyze the high-quality components of inpatient and outpatient documentation for CDI.
• Enhance knowledge in order to analyze the documentation components to support care across the healthcare continuum.
• Review steps that health systems can take to improve inpatient and outpatient CDI programs and outcomes.

• CDI Management and Staff
• Revenue Cycle Leaders
• Quality improvement leads and managers.
• Coding and data analytics
• Inpatient and outpatient operational leaders
• Documentation and Coding auditors
• HIM Coding staff and management
• Compliance directors and managers
• Billing and Patient Financial Services Managers
• Chief Operations Officer (COO)
• Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Gloryanne Bryant
Independent Consultant, Self-Employed

Gloryanne is an HIM Coding professional and Leader for over 40 years. She has an RHIA (Registered Health Information Administrator), a Clinical Documentation Improvement Practitioner (CDIP), a Certified Coding Specialist (CCS), and a Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS). Gloryanne is also an AAPC (American Academy of Professional Coders) member.

Currently she is an independent coding compliance consultant where she advises, guides and educates healthcare organizations, practices and professionals on clinical documentation improvement and compliant clinical coded data.

Ms. Bryant has conducted numerous educational programs on ICD-10-CM/PCS and CPT coding.

Ms. Bryant continues to advocate for compliant clinical documentation and data quality; and is passionate about helping healthcare have accurate and reliable coded data.

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