Today’s guests are Lee Anne Landon, BSN, CCMC, CCDS, network manager of CDI at HonorHealth in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Mary Elizabeth (M.E.) VanGelder, MREd, BSN, RN, CCDS, RHIT, CDI educator at HonorHealth in Phoenix, Arizona. The show is co-hosted by Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, CDI education director at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts.

Today’s show is supported by GHR RevCycle Workforce. GHR RevCycle Workforce provides qualified, experienced CDI, Coding and Case Management professionals with the proven skills and attention to detail that meet your staffing needs. Mastering CDI is a crucial component of running any healthcare system. But keeping up with caseloads can present a real stress on day-to-day operations. GHR RevCycle Workforce offers the solution—CDI program management, staff augmentation, and training provided by an experienced partner that focuses squarely on program creation, implementation, and optimization.

Featured solution:

Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the 2021 ACDIS national conference.

After a year in which we had to cancel our 2020 event, ACDIS is stepping forward to make ourselves and the CDI profession stronger than ever.

Join us October 24-28 in Dallas, Texas, for the return of the ACDIS national conference. We’re offering cutting-edge education across more than 60 CDI-focused presentations in our first-ever hybrid event. Our in-person event at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel features four concurrent tracks focused on coding and clinical concerns, management and professional development, regulatory changes and challenges, outpatient CDI, and much more. In a new value-added supplement this year, we’re offering online-only bonus presentations that participants can enjoy when they return home.

Click here to learn more and register today! (http://ow.ly/7l3b30rLACx)

In the News:

“News: UnitedHealthcare delays nonemergent ED visit policy amid provider pushback,” from CDI Strategies (http://ow.ly/tMKU30rLAE2)   

ACDIS update:

Apply to volunteer for an ACDIS committee by June 30! (http://ow.ly/SLj430rLAEP)