Description: Clinical Documentation Integrity Education is centered around key topics identified across Advocate Health as evident by 3rd party missed documentation clarification opportunities, CDI teammate assessments, and data trends on our KRA dashboard. We are committed to the growth of our CDI nurses and strive to obtain consistent communication across our teams through the utilization of Documentation Alignment Reference Cards (DARC) and evidenced best practices. As we present topics, the focus will include diagnoses, diagnostic criteria, treatment, ICD-10 CM code assignment, and query opportunities. AHA coding clinics and facility case studies are presented to demonstrate the impact of documentation on DRG, severity of illness, and risk of mortality.

Course Director: Jacob Neubauer, MN, RN-CNL, CCDS; Aurora St. Lukes Medical Center | Tamara Hicks, Manager Clinical Documentation Integrity, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center 

Planner point of contact: Jacob Neubauer at [email protected] & Tamara Hicks at [email protected]

Overall Objectives:

1. Identify diagnostic criteria and potential query opportunity associated with those diagnoses. 
2. Apply identified criteria to query construction.

Target Audience:  
This activity is designed for physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals.

Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, Advocate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Statement(s)

American Medical Association (AMA) 
Advocate Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) 
Advocate Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

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