October Monthly Meeting

PEHIMA – Monthly Meeting
Thursday, October 22, 2020
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Earn Two CEUs

FY 2021 Updates Part 1:
ICD-10-CM Codes & Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting

Duration:
60 minutes

Speakers:

• Denene Harper, RHIA
  Senior Coding Consultant, AHA
• Nelly Leon-Chisen, RHIA
  Director of Coding & Classification, AHA
• Anita Rapier, RHIT, CCS
  Managing Editor, Senior Coding Consultant, AHA
• Gretchen Young-Charles, RHIA
  Senior Coding Consultant, AHA

FY 2021 Updates Part 2: ICD-10-PCS Codes and Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting

Duration:
60 minutes

Speakers:

• Denene Harper, RHIA
  Senior Coding Consultant, AHA
• Nelly Leon-Chisen, RHIA
  Director of Coding & Classification, AHA
• Anita Rapier, RHIT, CCS
  Managing Editor, Senior Coding Consultant, AHA
• Gretchen Young-Charles, RHIA
  Senior Coding Consultant, AHA

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It is not too late to become a 2020 PEHMA member for $25 to have access to October, November, and December CEUs. Or you can pay $10 for October, November, and December each.

Coming Up In November:
Student Open House with Speaker Leslie Stokes
Topic:
Professional Enhancement

Tune on on Tuesdays to view videos promoting the Health Information Management field. Hear from specialists, leaders, and schools as we showcase and celebrate our unique profession! A new video will be featured on MoHIMA’s social media pages (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn) every Tuesday.

In order to showcase the breadth and depth of our profession we want to hear from YOU! We are seeking volunteers to participate in this promotional series in one (or more) of the following video categories:

• “My HIM Story” — tell us how you found and chose the HIM profession
• “Faces of HIM” — tell us about your specific role within HIM and share the day-to-day of your job
• “Proud Member Profile” — tell us why you enjoy being a member of AHIMA member and what it means to you
• “The Value of Volunteering” — tell us about your volunteer roles and why you want to volunteer to give back to the profession

If you are interested in being featured in our series contact Veronica Richardson, RHIA, Director of Public Relations at communications@mohima.org.

Please follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube to see past and future Tune In Tuesday videos.

The MoHIMA Board of Directors is considering a variety of formats for the 2021 Annual Meeting. Please take a moment to share your feedback regarding the format of the 2021 Annual Meeting. Click below to take the 3-question survey. 

Complete the Survey

Dear eMHIMA Members,

It is the time of year that we, the Board, ask you to become involved in our Component State Association (CSA). It is especially important now, due to COVID-19 that we stay connected and support each other in our profession – your input is valuable to the group! Please consider nominating yourself or another member to serve on the eMHIMA Board. Becoming a Board member is a rewarding experience – this is one way you can help promote our mission, meet your own professional goals and network! It is a win-win opportunity!

The eMHIMA Mission: To promote the art and science of the health information management profession, to improve the public’s welfare through the promotion of high-quality, comprehensive health information services, and to promote continuing education and interdisciplinary communication between health information professionals, physicians, and allied health professionals.

Thank you for your consideration, we look forward to working with you!

The eMHIMA Board

Complete the Call for Nominations Form

CMS Issues Interim Final Rule Regarding Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.

Learn more here.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3aifVTW 

PEHIMA – Monthly Meeting
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Thursday, July 16, 2020

Virtual Meeting via Zoom
Zoom virtual room will be open @ 5:15,
Please join us at 5:15 to check your connectivity with Zoom.
Click here for the link for the Zoom session.

This month’s webinar will be on:
Coding – Beyond – Mortality – Data – Vs – Clinical – Quality
1 CE will be offered

As always, if you have any ideas for upcoming topics, get in touch with a Board Member.

Encourage your Health Information Colleagues to become a part of PEHIMA.

Hope to see everyone online July 16th.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/2Ch0sH7

Click here to read about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed calendar year 2021 update to the home health prospective payment system.

KCHIMA is pleased to announce the Scholarship Winners for 2020! The awards ceremony slated for the KHIMA/MoHIMA Conference has been cancelled, so each recipient is receiving their $500 scholarship at this time. Congratulations to all our outstanding awardees!

Scholarship applications and awards occur each Spring. Members are encouraged to apply. Award categories include: HIT Associate, HIM Bachelor, Masters/PhD, and AHIMA Certification.

OAHIMA Membership,

I wanted to provide the 2020 Election Results for the OAHIMA Board of Directors for the 2020-2021 Board.

First I want to thank all the candidates that submitted their information and name to be placed on the Ballot.

We were filling two positions for 2020-2021:

President-Elect and Director, Education

Results of the Election:

Susan Barnes, RHIT, CCS: President-Elect (Employer: Freeman Health System-Joplin)

Donna Pritchard, RHIA, LPN: Director, Education (Employer: OTC-Springfield)

NOTEABLE: This year was our 2nd year for Online Voting.

First year online voting: 13% of our OAHIMA membership voted online.

This year online voting: 15% of our OAHIMA membership voted online. Good progress.

Congratulations to our newly elected Board of Directors that will take office on July 1, 2020.

Thank you

Clark Chaffin, MBA, RHIA, CCS
Past President, OAHIMA 2019-2020
Nominating Committee Chairperson, 2020

Instructor: Kay Piper, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, MoHIMA Coding Roundtable Coordinator

Technical Assistant: Ann Nowlin, RHIT, MoHIMA Central Office Coordinator

Instructional Design Assistants: Dr. Susan Foster, RHIA, CHPS, Professor, MoHIMA Director of Education 1st Year, Jamie Addler, RHIT, CPB, COC, CPMA, CPCO, MoHIMA Director of Education 2nd Year.

Description: Lessons will discuss the common root operations for the body system as well as devices and qualifiers that are unique to this body system. Coding examples for the body system will also be included.

Objectives: Learners will be able to:

• Evaluate an operative report, identify and select the appropriate ICD-10-PCS root operation(s).
• Evaluate an operative report, identify and select the appropriate body parts.
• Evaluate an operative report, identify and select the appropriate approach(es).
• Evaluate an operative report, identify and select body system specific devices and qualifiers.
• Evaluate an operative report and build the appropriate ICD-10-PCS code.

Course Format: Each lesson will require a reading assignment as well as an assessment to ensure understanding of material and provide you with documentation of your earned CEU. A prerecorded presentation will be provided to assist in clarifying the reading assignment. An interactive live session with a coding educator/professional will conclude each lesson for an additional CEU. Assignments are included in the book.

Lesson 1: Respiratory System
Lesson 2: Circulatory System
Lesson 3: Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary System
Lesson 4: Skeletal System: Bones and Joints
Lesson 5: Urinary System

Required Book: Kuehn, L. and Jorwic, T., ICD-10-PCS: An Applied Approach (2020). Chicago: AHIMA Press ICDN: 9781584267539, Product #: AC201119. This book can be ordered through AHIMA at https://my.ahima.org/store/.

Additional Required Resources: ICD-10-PCS 2020 Codebook or access to an online encoder.

Assessments: Each lesson will contain a reading assignment, a presentation video, a lesson assessment, and a 1-hour live session with on-hands coding activities.

Live Session Dates:
Lesson 1 – June 18 @ 7:00 pm (includes COVID-19 information)
Lesson 2 – July 16 @ 7:00 pm
Lesson 3 – August 20 @ 7:00 pm
Lesson 4 – September 17 @ 7:00 pm
Lesson 5 – October 15 @ 7:00 pm

Technical Requirements: Windows 7 or higher, Mac OS 10.7 or higher
Computer speakers or headset, camera (optional) and microphone.

Supported Browsers: Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or higher, Google Chrome 2.0 or higher, Apple Safari 2.0 or higher

Internet: DLS or better (Recommended Internet connection speed 500 or higher kbps)

Additional Software: Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Flash Player, Current version of Java

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• AHIMA Covid-19 Resources
• CDC Covid-19 Guidelines
• AHIMA CDI Query Templates
• HI Pitch AHIMA Covid-19 Podcast Series
• CMS Coronavirus (COVID-19) Partner Toolkit
• MHA Coronavirus Resources
• Intellis COVID-19 Resources

As you may know, today is AHIMA’s Virtual Hill Day–a day for all health information professionals to advocate on behalf of the profession. I encourage you to head over to AHIMA’s Action Center to contact your elected officials in Congress to tell them about the issues that matter to this profession.

We’ve created two engagements that focus on the issues that are critical to the profession and that are active issues before the US Congress: patient identification and the modernization of health information laws to help stem the tide of opioid misuse. You can find direct links to these engagements and additional information about the issues here:

• Patient identification
• Modernization of Health Information Laws to Help Stem the Tide of Opioid Misuse

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AHIMA’s social media manager will be posting and tweeting about AHIMA’s Virtual Hill Day throughout the day. I encourage you to share, post, and re-tweet these messages throughout the day to inspire others to let their voice be heard.

It doesn’t take more than a few moments. Even during these times of great uncertainty it is important to let your elected officials know about the issues that matter to you as a profession and can have an impact on your daily life.

Thank you for all that you do for the profession and AHIMA.

Best,

Lauren Riplinger, JD
Vice President, Policy & Government Affairs
AHIMA

Dear KHIMA and MoHIMA HIM Professionals:

Over the past several days, the KHIMA and MoHIMA Board of Directors have been monitoring the ever-changing COVID-19 situation.

Due to the World Health Organization (WHO) classifying COVID-19 as a global pandemic and it now being a state of emergency with large groups being banned, the Boards have decided to postpone the 2020 Joint Annual Meeting that was scheduled for April 22-24th. We have tentatively rescheduled the meeting to September 30th – October 2nd. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Below are important details you need to know.

1) Your registration will automatically be transferred to the rescheduled meeting.  However, a full refund will be given to those who registered, paid for the April 2020 meeting and who are not able to attend the rescheduled meeting in September/October. To receive a refund, click on the survey monkey link below to instruct us on how to refund your money.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/T22966N

2) Your hotel reservation will automatically be canceled by the Doubletree staff. The cancellation may not be completed until late next week due to hotel staff being furloughed.  You can reach out to the hotel to verify that it has been canceled by calling (913) 451-6100 at that time.

Again, we apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.  However, the health and well-being of our meeting attendees, exhibitors and presenters is important to us.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

• MoHIMA Contact Us
• KHIMA Contact Us

2020 Ballot:

President-Elect: Jamie Addler (Ozark)
Mary Lee Harlan-Newberry (Mid-MO)

Delegate: Emily Beets (Ozark)
Donna Caldwell-Chaffin (Ozark)
Kay Folck (Kansas City)

Director, Education: Tanisha Luckett (Eastern)
Donna Pritchard (Ozark)

Eligible Voting Membership: 1633
Total Votes Received: 197
Total Voter Percentage: 2020 12% voting turnout (Excellent Voting Turnout) (2019-10% voting rate)

2020 Ballot Results:

President-Elect: Mary Lee Harlan Newberry (Mid-MO)
Delegate: Donna Caldwell-Chaffin (Ozark)
Director, Education: Tanisha Luckett (Eastern)

Thank you for your participation in the elections this year and congratulations to our future new board members.

Thank you,

Clark Chaffin, MBA, RHIA, CCS
Nominating Committee Chairperson (2020)
President-Elect (2019-2020)

Please join us on Tuesday, March 3rd at 4 pm for our March meeting.

Note the change in time!

Topic: Back to the Basics in Coding

Speaker: Judy Bielby, MBA, RHIA, CPHQ, CCS, FAHIMA

Location:

Saint Luke’s South Hospital
Horner Wellness Conference Room
12300 Metcalf Ave
Overland Park, KS 66213

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Happy New Year everyone. We are looking forward to seeing you in 2020.

Below are the dates for the upcoming eMHIMA events.

Spring Fling
Date: Saturday, April 25, 2020
Location: Mercy Conference Center

Summer Meeting
Date: Wednesday, June 10th, 2020
Location: TBD

Coding Round Table
Date: Saturday September 12, 2020
Location: Mercy Conference Center

Annual Meeting
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2020
Location: TBD

AHIMA is looking for strategic, innovative, dedicated members to be considered for one of our five elected roles in 2021.

View the opportunities for the AHIMA President/Chair-elect, Board of Directors, CEE members, CCHIIM Commissioners, and Speaker-elect of the House of Delegates on the AHIMA website.

Select the Elected Positions tab from the top toolbar to review each description. The application for each position is posted on Engage’s Volunteer Center.

Questions?  Feel free to contact profession.governance@ahima.org.

Join us for this informative prerecorded webinar, Assessing and Identifying Risk, presented by Sallie Bissette, EdD, MHA/MBA, RHIA, CHC. Attendees will learn how to define risk, assess and identify risk within the organization and mitigate and prevent risk areas.

Pricing:
Members – $15
NonMembers – $25
AHIMA Student Members – $5

Speaker:
Sallie Bissette, EdD, MHA/MBA, RHIA, CHC

Dr. Sallie Bissette has been a champion in providing knowledge and understanding on how to navigate the maze of federal and state regulations. With over 15 years of compliance experience, Dr. Bissette has learned the importance of working with organization stakeholders to not only identify areas of potential risk, but to also develop process improvements that are not only compliant but beneficial for the organization. With a background in physician revenue cycle, Dr. Bissette is able to bring additional expertise to the compliance world. Her HIM experience provides her with the ability to approach compliance topics through a different lens.

Dr. Bissette has a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Information Management from East Carolina University. She holds a double Masters in Business Administration and Healthcare Administration from Pfeiffer University and a doctoral degree in Interdisciplinary Leadership from Creighton University. Dr. Bissette currently serves as the President of the North Carolina Health Information Management Association.

CE Hours: 1 CE – Performance Improvement

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GRASSROOTS ALERT

In June, the US House of Representatives adopted an amendment striking language in the House FY20 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education (Labor-HHS) Appropriations bill that prohibits the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from using federal funds to promulgate or adopt a unique patient identifier. Striking this language will give HHS the ability to evaluate a range of patient identification solutions that protect patient privacy and are cost-effective, scalable, and secure.

For nearly two decades, innovation and industry progress has been stifled due to broad interpretation of this language included in Labor-HHS bills since FY1999. More than that, without the ability of clinicians to correctly connect a patient with their medical record, lives have been lost and medical errors have needlessly occurred. These are situations that could have been entirely avoidable had patients been able to have been accurately identified and matched with their records. This problem is so dire that one of the nation’s leading patient safety organizations, the ECRI Institute, named patient identification among the top ten threats to patient safety.

The absence of a consistent approach to accurately identifying patients has also resulted in significant costs to hospitals, health systems, physician practices, long-term post-acute care (LTPAC) facilities, and other providers, as well as hindered efforts to facilitate health information exchange. According to a 2016 study of healthcare executives, misidentification costs the average healthcare facility $17.4 million per year in denied claims and potential lost revenue. More importantly, there are patient safety implications when data is matched to the wrong patient and when essential data is lacking from a patient’s record due to identity issues. The 2016 National Patient Misidentification Report cites that 86 percent of respondents said they have witnessed or know of a medical error that was the result of patient misidentification.

Contact Congress today and urge them to strike this archaic ban from the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2020.

In June, the US House of Representatives adopted an amendment striking language in the House FY20 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education (Labor-HHS) Appropriations bill that prohibits the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from using federal funds to promulgate or adopt a unique patient identifier. Striking this language will give HHS the ability to evaluate a range of patient identification solutions that protect patient privacy and are cost-effective, scalable, and secure.

Now that a budget deal in Congress has materialized, we expect the US Senate to move quickly to consider the Senate FY20 Labor-HHS appropriations bill this fall. Before Congress returns in September, we ask that you contact your US Senators via AHIMA’s Advocacy Action Center to encourage them to remove this archaic ban.

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Saturday, August 17, 2019
2:00pm – 4:00pm

Location

Pizza Ranch
Back Room
3007 N Belt Highway
St. Joseph, MO

PEHIMA Presents: Coding Round Tables

We will having coding tables for:

• Inpatient Coding
• Outpatient Coding
• Emergency Room Coding
• Clinic Coding
• Specialty Clinic Coding
• Home Health/Hospice Coding
• E&M Level Coding

Information about the Round Table:

• We have tried to cover most of the coding areas of our members.
• Come in pick the table as you will be working through actual coding scenarios.
• Bring any coding tools that you have available i.e.: laptop, iPhone, tablet, Coding Manuals, etc.   If you have any extra Coding manuals please bring them.  Even if they are 2018, please bring them.
• If you don’t have any Coding tools your iPhone will be your tool as there are many apps that you can use.
• Inpatient Coders – you may have surgical procedures also, so you may need access to ICD-10-PCS assistance.
• There will be Auditors available to help during the working time with any questions.
• The Auditors will be going over each scenario at the end of the Round Table and sharing the “key” to the scenario.

Information about Pizza Ranch

We have been graciously allowed to use the large private banquet room which is a perfect place for PEHIMA to hold functions such as this.  The room is directly behind the drink station.

Please come early perhaps 1:30 or 1:45 and join us for Pizza Ranch’s delicious buffet.  This can be our way of showing our Thanks for allowing us to use their banquet room at no cost! (And the chicken is DELISH)
By coming early to dine, we can begin promptly at 2 pm for the Coding Round Tables

There will be CEU’s for the meeting.

Please encourage your fellow coders to attend.  This should be a fun-filled day and great camaraderie.
Come join us for the afternoon.

Hope to see you there!

Melody L. Brown, RHIA
PEHIMA President

KCHIMA is pleased to announce the 2019 ballot results:

• President Elect – Kaitlyn Brown
• Treasurer – Allie Lohman
• Secretary – Pang Her
• Communications Coordinator – Jill Judkins
• Kay Folck will continue a 2nd term as President
• Patricia Elliott will continue a 2nd term as Past-President

The ballot measure to permit non-credentialed professionals who work in and with the HIM field to become members of KCHIMA also passed by a wide margin.

KCHIMA also takes this opportunity to express our deepest gratitude to the retiring officers for their stellar service to the association. Thank you ladies!

• Grace Hoyer – Treasurer
• Audrey Johnson – Secretary and Communications Coordinator
• Karen Reynolds – President-elect / President / Past-President

Topic

Risk Adjustment and HCC Coding

Speaker

Sandra Soerries, CPC, COC

Date

June 11, 2019

Time

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Location

North Kansas City Hospital (Sky View Room)
2800 Clay Edwards Dr
Kansas City, MO 64116 United States
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Please join us in 2019 and 2020 for our meetings!

2019

• Spring Fling
  Date: Saturday, April 27, 2019
  Location: Mercy Conference Center
• Summer Meeting
  Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2019
  Location: TBD
• Coding Round Table
  Date: Saturday, September 14, 2019
  Location: Mercy Conference Center
•  Annual Meeting
  Date: Thursday, November 7, 2019
  Location: TBD

2020

• Spring Fling
  Date: Saturday, April 25, 2020
  Location: Mercy Conference Center
• Summer Meeting
  Date: Wednesday, Jun 10, 2020
  Location: TBD
• Coding Round Table
  Date: Saturday, September 12, 2020
  Location: Mercy Conference Center
• Annual Meeting
  Date: Thursday, November 5, 2020
  Location: TBD

*Dates Subject to Change. We will have more information available as the dates get closer. 

We look forward to seeing you!

eMHIMA Board of Directors

At MoHIMA, we feel that volunteering is like dessert – sweet and satisfying! Especially when you serve as a board member. Which position looks the sweetest to you?

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Attention everyone…the 2019 eMHIMA Membership Application is open with a limited-time discount!

Sign-up as a new member or renew your current membership between now and December 31, 2018 to receive your $5.00 discount! Join or renew today for only $20. By attending our Spring Fling, Summer meeting, Coding Round Table and/or the Annual meeting you have opportunities to network and earn the CEU’s you need.

Thank you for taking care of this important detail now!

Lian Collins, RHIA, HCISPP, eMHIMA President, 2019 & the eMHIMA Board

eMHIMA Membership

We would like to congratulate KCHIMA President, Kay Folck on being a 2018 AHIMA Triumph Award Recipient!

Kay was nominated by her peers in recognition of her extraordinary leadership, volunteerism, and talent. The awards were presented in September at the 2018 AHIMA Annual Convention and Exhibit in Miami. Congratulations Kay!!

Mentor Award:
Kealia (Kay) A. Folck, MHA, RHIA, CPEHR, CPHIT

Saturday, September 8, 2018
8:00 am – 1:00 pm

The University of Kansas Medical Center – Health Education Building
2146 W 39th Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66103

Registration is now open!

Register for the KCHIMA Fall Symposium

Two tracks will be offered at this year’s Fall Symposium. Register for your track now!
8:00 – 8:30 Registration & Breakfast
8:30 – 9:30 General Session: Dana DeMasters, MN, RN, CHPS –Liberty Hospital

Track 1 Coding:
9:30 – 10:20 Dr. William Reed, Jr., MD – Orthopedic
10:30 – 11:20 Dr. Dwayne Jones, MD- Pain Mgmt

Track 2 IT:
9:30-10:20 Melanie Edwards MMIS, RHIA – KU
10:30- 11:20 Sara Warnock, RHIT – KAMMCO

11:30 – 12:00 Networking & lunch
12:00 – 1:00 General Session: Norma Knipp, MBA, RHIA – NKCH

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Advocacy is all about relationships.  MoHIMA’s President Elect, Brenda Fuller, and Delegates Jane DeSpiegelaere and Kay Piper built those relationships during AHIMA’s Advocacy Summit, Washington, DC, March 19-20, 2018 by meeting with Congressional members or their staffs on issues important to HIM:  patient matching and modernizing privacy laws to combat the opioid epidemic.

Patient Matching

Finding all of a patient’s health information without including someone else’s is a patient safety issue.  HIM professionals search by name, birthday, address, and other identifiers but these are prone to errors.  MoHIMA requested that legislators remove the 1999 language from a fiscal year 2019 appropriations legislation that doesn’t let US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) discuss creating a strategy to uniquely identify each patient.  By removing the language prohibiting discussions, HHS could work with the healthcare industry on a nationwide way to match patients to their health information while respecting privacy laws.  Imagine the improved healthcare that would result if all of one’s health records across the nation no matter where care is sought could be located using one identifying method, such as a unique patient number, the patient’s fingerprint image, face scan.

Opioid Epidemic

42 CFR Part 2 is a 40 year old privacy statute governing the confidentiality and sharing of substance use disorder treatment records.  It requires the patient’s written consent to give out any information that would indicate that the patient received treatment for a substance abuse disorder. This includes written consent before a physician prescribing pain medication could get information that substance abuse disorder existed.  This doesn’t align with HIPAA, as written consent is still needed even though HIPAA lets covered entities use and disclose protected health information if it’s being used for treatment, payment, or healthcare operations.  MoHIMA asked lawmakers to support and co-sponsor H.R. 3545, the Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act (OPPS Act)/S. 1850, the Protecting Jessie Grubb’s Legacy Act. H.R. 3545/S. 1850.

Date: November 2, 2017

Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM CT

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to view the ICD-10 Coordination & Maintenance (C&M) Committee public forum on ICD-10-CM & ICD-10-PCS code updates online
• Become knowledgeable of the coding proposals which are requested and presented and take action and comment on the coding proposals

Speaker: Ioana Cosma RHIT, CCS

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MoHIMA Membership:

As your incoming President for the 2017-2018 term, I want you to know what an honor and privilege it is to serve and represent you in our profession.

I want to take this opportunity to thank Teresa Treon for her steady leadership and expert guidance over the last couple of years and I look forward to working with her in her Past President role this term. We are sad to see Seth Katz step off the board this year, however, we know we can count on his continued support and leadership in all things HIM and IG.  Brenda Fuller will be serving her first year on the board this year as President-Elect and I am thrilled to be working and learning from her over the next couple of years.

As our component state association (CSA) leadership is transitioning, so is our national leadership.  With the recent change at our national association level, we will want to provide support and guidance to our interim and new leadership going forward. As your president, I will do my best to keep members informed of how these changes may affect you as a member and an HIM professional.

We held our Board transition meeting on June 29^th in Springfield, Missouri.  We have a great 2017-2018 Board line-up:

• Jane DeSpiegelaere-Wegner, MBA, RHIA, CCS, FAHIMA, RHCBS – 1^st Year Delegate
• Kay Piper, RHIA, CDIP, CCS – 2^nd Year Delegate
• Lian Collins – Director of Professional Development
• Steven Wilson – Director of Public Relations
• Clark Chaffin, MBA, RHIA, CCS – 1^st Year Director of Education
• Beverly Marquez – RHIA, 2^nd Year Director of Education

And…we are busy planning our annual meeting April 11-13th, 2017 in St. Charles, Missouri;  partnering with our ILHIMA friends for this event!  Davin Foster, RHIT, our Annual Meeting Chairperson and Susan Foster, MBA, RHIA, CHPS, COC, CPCO, our Annual Meeting Co-Chair, are working with their committee to make this a fantastic meeting.

As always, we want to hear from you on how you think we can best represent you as an HIM professional.  Please feel free to email any of your MoHIMA Board Members.

Enjoy the rest of your summer!

Regards,

Julie A. Dooling, MSHI, RHIA, CHDA, FAHIMA
MoHIMA President 2017-2018

KCHIMA is celebrating our very own Past President, Karen Reynolds on her AHIMA Rising Star Award!

Karen Reynolds is only a 5-year veteran of the HIM profession and in that short period of time she has not only advanced professionally by rising to the role of Clinical Informatics Manager at Truman Medical Center but she has also dove head first into professional involvement at the local, state, and national level. Karen has just completed the term of President of the Kansas City HIM Association; served on several MoHIMA Committees and been a featured speaker at the AHIMA National Convention. Karen is a “rising star” in every sense of the title… a true inspiration to us all. Congratulations, Karen!

Congratulations to Karen Reynolds, MBA, RHIA, 2017 AHIMA’s Rising Star!

• President-Elect (3 year term, serving as President-Elect, President and Past President)
• Office Coordinator (1 year term)
• Director of Public Imaging (2 year term)

May 24, 2017
12:00 – 1:00 PM CT

Speaker

Lauren Kelly, RHIT

Lauren has been in the coding field for 10 years with her focus being on ED coding. You could say she has a passion for emergencies!

She has always loved the diversity that working in the ED coding area brings daily. She started off coding ER accounts, worked her way up to ED coding lead and now is the ED Coding Team Leader at SSM Health for the past 2 years. She has been with SSM Health for a total of 5 years. She codes for all 7 hospitals with the SSM Health STL network and her team consists of 16 ED coders and billing coordinators. The coding staff applies all the facility side charges, including EM, infusions/injections and CPTs.

Pricing

Members: $15
Non-Members: $25

Register Today!