Stop revenue leakage and boost hospital performance by mastering risk adjustment and HCCs. This essential webcast with expert Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP, will reveal how inaccurate patient acuity documentation leads to lost reimbursements through penalties from poor quality scores. Learn the critical differences between HCCs and traditional CCs/MCCs, adapt your CDI workflows, and ensure accurate payments in Medicare Advantage and value-based care models. Perfect for HIM leaders, coders, and CDI professionals. Don’t miss this chance to protect your hospital’s revenue and reputation!
$159.00
$159.00
The Hidden Threat to Hospital Revenue & Performance
Hospital margins are shrinking, and one of the most overlooked sources of revenue leakage is the inaccurate representation of patient acuity. Risk adjustment is a critical tool used by Medicare, Medicaid, and other payors to ensure fair comparisons across patient populations—impacting everything from Medicare Advantage payments to publicly reported quality metrics. When hospitals fail to properly risk-adjust their patient data, they face lower reimbursements from financial penalties, and even reputational damage that can hurt market share.
How This Webcast Will Help You Fix the Problem
Join Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP, as she examines reimbursement mechanisms that are impacted by risk-adjustment methodology based on claims data like Medicare Advantage and CMS mandatory risk-adjustment programs. You’ll also learn about key electronic quality measures. Cheryl will then break down the most widely used non-proprietary risk-adjustment tools, with a deep dive into why CMS Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) are critical. Finally, She’ll compare CMS-HCCs to traditional CDI workflows, highlighting key differences in capturing complications/comorbidities (CCs) and major complications/comorbidities (MCCs).”
Risk adjustment is no longer just an outpatient concern—inpatient coders and CDI teams must also prioritize HCCs to avoid missed revenue leakage. With CMS increasingly tying payments to risk-adjusted quality measures, coding accuracy directly impacts your hospital’s bottom line. This webinar will help you understand the importance of risk-adjustment and the most common non-propriety risk-adjustment tools and will also explain how a risk-adjustment focused CDI review process differs from the traditional CDI review looking for CCs and MCCs, making this session essential for HIM directors, CDI specialists, and coding professionals who want to protect revenue and enhance data integrity.
Bonus Features:
CDI, Inpatient Coders, Risk-adjustment coders, physician advisors, hospital quality staff
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Cheryl is the Director of CDI and UM/CM with Brundage Group. She is an experienced revenue cycle expert and is known internationally for her work as a CDI professional. Cheryl has helped establish industry guidance through contributions to ACDIS white papers and several AHIMA Practice Briefs in the areas of CDI, Denials, Quality, Querying and HIM Technology.
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This program has the prior approval of AAPC for 1 continuing education hour. Granting of prior approval in no way constitutes endorsement by AAPC of the program content or the program sponsor. |
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This program has been approved for 1 continuing education unit for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Granting prior approval from AHIMA does not constitute endorsement of the program content or its program sponsor. |
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