Save the Date – Lunch & Learn
February 14th
Please save the date and join us on Valentine’s Day, February 14th for a one-hour lunch and learn from noon to 1:00 E.T. with Japera Barnes, a PhD candidate in the College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling at Florida A&M University. She is also an Associate Professor and Health Information Technology Program Coordinator at Florida Gateway College with more than a decade of combined experience in healthcare and academia.
Japera will present “Personal Power: Developing the Leader Within”, a vivid depiction of her journey to personal power, describing some of the common types of power, and offers practical ways to propel your personal power to new dimensions, and personal power is a key to unlocking your leadership success
Common Coding Headaches and How to Avoid Them
March 12th
What causes you the most pain when coding in the outpatient setting these days?
- Screening vs Surveillance vs Diagnostic Colonoscopies
- CMS Preventive Services Codes for screening and surveillance
- Appropriate modifier use
- How to report unlisted procedures
Robin Ingalls-Fitzgerald, CCS, CPC, FCS, CEDC, CEMC and President/CEO of Medical Management and Reimbursement Specialists, LLC will discuss each of these topics and help you to find solutions!
Be sure to join us on Wednesday, March 12th from noon to 1:00 pm.
The cost is $25.00 per person and 1 CEU is being offered.
Please contact Tara Katynski to register and make payment arrangements at 203-82-12-9783 or
Addressing Global Health Inequities: Improving Data for Social Determinants of Health
April 16th
SPEAKER: Michelle Badore
SYNOPSIS:
According to the World Health Organization, a staggering 30-55% of health outcomes are attributed to SDoH. Contributing to this crisis are broken documentation practices, under-coding, and disparate classification systems across regions that are trying to support those in need. Analysing and improving these factors may not only allow for patient‐centered care that meets an individual’s social needs but may also inform population‐wide approaches to address social needs and reduce the burden of disparities within our patient population. We will differentiate how 12 countries on various continents and with varied complexity of healthcare environments describe the components of health inequities with some historical issues leading to the current landscape, capture the socio-economic issues in documentation, code using different patient classification systems, guidelines, and regulations, and how the data flows downstream to other systems for reporting systems such as patient quality measures and regulatory bodies.
This webinar will take place on April 16, 2025 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm
The cost is $25.00 per person and 1 CEU is being offered.
Please contact Tara Katynski to register and make payment arrangements at 203-812-9783 or
Letter from the Board
Winter 2024
Greetings members!
We thought we would get the winter letter off a bit earlier than usual just to be sure to wish everyone happy holidays beginning with Thanksgiving!
Before we begin with a recap of events from autumn and what to expect in the months ahead, there are a few important rules that need clarification:
- Members and non-members alike must register and pay in full by the day before any of our virtual sessions
- The Board has limited staffing and last-minute registrations are no longer possible
- There have been instances of non-payment and so all fees must be paid in full, in advance of the session
- Tracking paid registrations is how we track CEUs for AHIMA audits
- Links to our virtual events are NEVER to be shared with anyone!
- All registrations are individual
- Group registrations are no longer available
- Attendance will now be taken at all sessions and anyone phoning in will need to identify themselves
- Any attendees not registered and identified on the call will be removed before the start of the meeting
- CEU certificates are NEVER to be shared with anyone
- From now on CEU certificates will be made out specifically to the individual both registered and attending the event
- This too is needed for our audit trail for AHIMA
- PLEASE try to be punctual since attendees constantly needing to be admitted to the meeting while someone is speaking is extremely disruptive to all attending
With all that said, we did enjoy a successful half-day Annual Meeting 2024 for CtHIMA on Friday, November 15th from 8:00 until noon during which Jen Cox bought us up to date on the latest HIPAA enforcement actions, Carl Schiessl recapped both state and federal elections and chatted about what we might expect in 2025. Although there were a few technical challenges, we managed to struggle through our mandated AHIMA updates. Only to learn just today that Dr. Kevin Klauer has made the personal decision to step down as CEO of AHIMA effective November 20, 2024. Lastly, Michelle Badore of Solventum gave us the latest updates as to where things stand with ICD-11 worldwide.
We had scheduled for Wednesday, October 2nd from noon to 1:00 pm a virtual lunch and learn presented by Dr. Nicole Copemann, RHIA, CPC titled “Growth Mindset for HIM Professionals”.
Due to several technical difficulties with our platform we needed to end abruptly and reschedule for Thursday, December 12th from noon to 1:00 pm. In this session, together we will explore the growth mindset concept to discover how it can specifically benefit the HIM professional.
For January we will hold a session titled MHPAEA Final Rule, Comparative Analysis with Codes and Groupers, Why it Matters! on Wednesday, January 15, 2024. The presenter will be Ajay Perumbeti, a multi-specialty board certified physician with a focus on Informatics, A.I. & Precision Medicine for improved Healthcare Value. His career has spanned focus on basic science research in gene therapy, clinical care and leadership in Pediatrics, Hematology Oncology, & Transfusion Medicine, to his current role as Medical Director, Clinical & Economic Research at Solventum (formerly 3m Health). He is proud to be a graduate of UACOM-P Clinical Informatics Fellowship, UA Data Science Fellows, and ASU Health Informatics and Computational Life Science. In the session we will cover:
- Context with Scale of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Problem
- Tell a story of Mental Health Coverage in the United States and Mental Health & Substance Abuse Disorder Parity Act (MHPAEA)
- Introduce MHPAEA Final Rule
- Compare and Contrast MHPHAEA Comparative Analysis with Codes and Groupers
As a St. Valentine’s Day treat, we will be offering another lunch and learn on Friday, February 14th from noon to 1:00 pm presented by Japera Denson titled “Personal Power: Developing the Leader Within”, so be sure to mark your calendars to save the date and time!
Given the success of the half-day Annual, plans are already being made for a half-day “semi-annual” in mid-June to revisit some of the same topics for an update!
Have a peaceful and restful winter season and enjoy the holidays!
The Board at CtHIMA
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