ACDIS & JustCoding Virtual Seminar

ACDIS & JustCoding Virtual Seminar

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 | 12:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. Eastern

ACDIS & JustCoding invite you to spend the afternoon with us as we uncover critical CDI and coding insights. The ACDIS & JustCoding Virtual Seminar offers three hours of foundational CDI and coding education presented by industry experts—all from the comfort of your home or office. Join us for a deep dive into both skin failure and liver failure as the speakers unpack diagnostic criteria and treatment protocols, identifying key clinical indicators and potential query opportunities. Attendees will learn the nuances of coding these diagnoses and how documentation directly impacts coding.

Additionally, the seminar will offer a review of commonly overlooked clinical conditions that impact risk adjustment, including cachexia and metastatic cancer. The speakers will provide tips for effectively educating and querying providers to ensure accurate risk adjustment capture.

Over the course of this one-day event, attendees will understand fundamental coding concepts and explore clinical topics from both coding and CDI perspectives. Plus, don’t miss this opportunity to earn a variety of CEUs!

At the completion of this educational activity, the learner will be able to:

• Articulate how medical record documentation impacts coding accuracy.
• Define different types of skin failure, including acute and chronic.
• Apply an organized approach to ICD-10-CM code selection for liver failure scenarios, including acuity and key documentation elements.
• Identify key query opportunities for clinical conditions that impact risk adjustment.

*Once the event has concluded, you'll have access to all recordings for 60 days.

ACDIS & JustCoding Virtual Seminar

Virtual Conference Day 1 — Wednesday, September 9, 2026

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Under Pressure! Our Journey to Reduce PSI 03 and Improve Patient Outcomes
Jaime Bennett, BSN, RN, CCDS; Sheila Fisher, MSN, RN, NEA-BC; and Lydia Koepke, MS, APRN-CNS, RN-BC, CWON
Learn how Northwest Medicine created a role for a CDI nurse to facilitate multidisciplinary concurrent and retrospective reviews, ultimately resulting in a 38% reduction of Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) 03 occurrences. The speakers will discuss definitions of skin failure as well as ways to introduce these definitions to providers and staff. Additionally, they will explain how they introduced a Certified Wound and Ostomy Nurse (CWON) role to promote interdisciplinary collaboration in determining the etiology of wounds and outline a system for tracking the impact of this review process.

1:10 p.m. – 2:10 p.m.
My Body is a Temple, My Liver is a Battlefield: An ICD-10-CM Coding Review that DeLIVERS Clinical Concepts on Liver Failure
James F. Salter IV, CCS
Liver failure cases can be deceptively complex—coding accuracy depends on clear documentation of acuity, underlying etiology, and clinical indicators that support the provider’s statement. During this session, learn how to connect ICD-10-CM liver failure code selection with the clinical concepts and documentation elements that coders and CDI professionals rely on for compliant reporting. Additionally, learn common procedures performed to treat liver disease and how to capture procedures with ICD-10-PCS codes. The speaker will walk through common documentation pitfalls, distinguish related liver conditions that may be confused with liver failure, and use case-based examples to reinforce practical decision-making. Attendees will leave with a consistent approach to reviewing documentation, identifying query opportunities, and improving code assignment confidence for liver failure scenarios.

2:20 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.
Coming Soon!
Mercy Gonzalez, MSN, RN, CCDS and Amy Kratochvil, RHIT, CCDS, CDIP

— Agenda subject to change —

ACDIS & JustCoding Virtual Seminar

Speakers

Jaime Bennett, BSN, RN, CCDS, has worked as a nurse for 28 years in various roles across the country and has been at Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) for 10 years. She is currently a CDI specialist at NMH. In this role, she is a mortality reviewer and PSI 03 reviewer. She works with a multidisciplinary hospital team to reduce pressure injuries and has been involved in various related projects. She is proud to improve patient care and outcomes within the scope of CDI.

Sheila Fisher, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, has worked as a nurse for 16 years in various roles at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, recently as the operations and performance manager for patient care. In this role, she supported nurse-driven quality indicators for the organization. She is passionate about high-quality, safe patient care. She has co-led various initiatives across the organization to reduce hospital-acquired pressure injuries. She takes pride in collaborating with front line staff to identify opportunities to improve patient outcomes and enhance nursing practice.

Mercy Gonzalez, MSN, RN, CCDS, is a highly experienced CDI auditor and educator, currently serving at University of Chicago Medicine. She began her nursing career in 2001 as a med-surg RN and then transitioned to nursing management at UChicago. In 2009, she became one of the two founding CDI specialists of the UChicago CDI program. She is responsible for educating CDI staff, delivering provider-facing presentations, conducting query and chart audits, and actively contributing to the PC-06 committee, where she collaborates with providers to address challenges with documentation of normal newborn care. Gonzalez has led numerous staff education initiatives, including the development and implementation of the cardiothoracic observed-to-expected (O:E) project. Her efforts have led to the implementation of efficacious query guidelines, enhancement of O:E metrics, and evolution of denial rebuttals.

Lydia Koepke, MS, APRN-CNS, RN-BC, CWON, is board certified in wound, ostomy, and medical-surgical nursing. She is an advanced practice clinical nurse specialist and quality improvement leader with 10+ years in an urban acute care academic medical center. She has developed and led initiatives improving quality metrics for hospital-acquired pressure injuries and central line infections, offering staff and patient education, and collaborating with interdisciplinary teams. She is skilled in translating clinical expertise into strategic operations, improving inpatient quality composite scores, providing legal reviews, and product development partnerships. Koepke is a member of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel professional organization and the Wound Ostomy Continence Nursing Society.

Amy Kratochvil, RHIT, CCDS, CDIP, serves as the system director for health information management, coding, and CDI for UChicago Medicine. She has been in the coding and CDI field for 20 years, starting as an inpatient coder at UChicago Medicine and entering an auditing and coding manager role within a few years. The CDI program started under her leadership in 2009 and has since grown from two to 25 CDI specialists. Kratochvil has worked closely on initiatives related to length of stay planning, improvement in expected mortality, denial prevention, and Patient Safety Indicator/hospital-acquired condition reductions. She is always looking for ways that technology can help, including working with the data analytics team to target discrete data elements for documentation opportunities. Kratochvil was elected to the ACDIS Advisory Board for the 2024–2027 term, is a current member of the ACDIS CDI Leadership Council, and was a past member of the 2023–2024 ACDIS Leadership Council Mastermind.

James F. Salter IV, CCS, serves as a Coding Regulatory Education Specialist for the Certified Coder Boot Camp® programs. He is a contributor to the Certified Coder Boot Camp®—Inpatient Version. In his role at HCPro, Slater works with hospitals, medical practices, and other healthcare providers on a wide range of coding-related issues with a particular focus on education, coding reviews, and audits. Salter has extensive experience with teaching and coding for inpatient hospital services. Prior to joining HCPro, he worked for Conifer Health Solutions, where his duties included serving as an inpatient coder, a coding analyst, a second level reviewer, a coding and query auditor, and as an instructor for the in-house coding and Epic training. Salter also taught both inpatient and outpatient coding at Fortis Institute as an adjunct coding instructor. Additionally, he previously worked in medical coding for several different Trauma Level I hospitals, focusing on hospital inpatient services.

ACDIS & JustCoding Virtual Seminar

Pricing

Retail price: $199.00

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