Vizient CDI Education Series 2021 - Respiratory Failure: CDI and Coding Updates

August 18, 2021

After completing this program, attendees will be able to define the fundamentals, describe the appropriate oxygen therapy management and how to clinically validate a diagnosis of acute respiratory failure. The attendees will also understand the coding guidelines, quality metrics surrounding the diagnosis of respiratory failure as well as understanding the mortality, LOS and cost variables that affect the members overall national scorecard rankings.

Target Audience

CDI specialists, CDI Managers and Directors, CDI Educators and Auditors, Medical Coders, Physicians, Physician Advisors, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Registered Nurses, Denials Management, Quality

Learning Objectives

1.    Describe overall pathophysiology, clinical determinants, and calculation of respiratory failure.
2.    Distinguish different types of respiratory failure and other respiratory diagnoses.
3.    Interpret ventilator times and distinguish various respiratory treatment modalities.
4.    Recall respiratory failure mortality variables that are risk adjusted.
5.    Differentiate acute respiratory failure in the postoperative period.
6.    Apply knowledge of Coding Guidelines and coding clinics for respiratory failure.
7.    Explain payer denials and guidance for acute respiratory failure. 
 

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 General CE – Attendance
Course opens: 
07/21/2021
Course expires: 
10/02/2021
Event starts: 
08/18/2021 - 12:00pm CDT
Event ends: 
08/18/2021 - 1:30pm CDT
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Live via webinar
United States

Relevant financial relationships: None of the planning committee/presenters have anything to disclose.


Planning committee members
Rachel Mack, RN, MSN, BA, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, CRC
Consulting Director, CDI
Vizient

Aman Sabharwal, MD, MHA, CPHM
Senior Principal, Advisory Solutions
Vizient

Angela Hunt, RN, MBA, CCDS
Associate Principal, Advisory Solutions
Vizient

Dr. Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM
Associate Vice President, Clinical Resources
Vizient

Linda Wiseman, RN, BSN, CCDS
Consulting Director, CDI
Vizient

Jim Tamburini, BS, RHIT, CCS, CCS-P, CDIP
Consulting Director, CDI
Vizient

Sheila Bowlds, RHIA, MBA, AHIMA Certified ICD-10 Trainer
Consulting Director, CDI
Vizient Inc.

Terry Golde, MBA, RN, CCDS
Consulting Director, CDI
Vizient

Erica Braun, MS, BSN, RN, CCDS
Consulting Director, CDI
Vizient
Presenters

Terry Golde, MBA, RN, CCDS
Consulting Director
Vizient

Erica Braun, MS, BSN, RN, CCDS
Consulting Director
Vizient

Rachel Mack, RN, MSN, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, CRC
Consulting Director
Vizient

Designation Statement:


CEU
Vizient, Inc. will award CEUs to each participant who successfully completes this program. The CEU is a nationally recognized unit of measure for continuing education and training programs that meet certain criteria (1 contact hour = 0.1 CEU).
 

Available Credit

  • 1.50 General CE – Attendance
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