Podcast appearances and mentions of kristi pollard

Is the emergency department (ED) an outpatient CDI priority for your organization? The emergency department is the main source of admissions to a hospital – and the first location patients typically receive care. What should you consider when determining how an outpatient CDI program could support quality patient care, proper payment, and complete and accurate data?   During the next live edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays, outpatient CDI expert Colleen Deighan will return with another installment in her popular series on a subject that continues to generate listener interest and questions. Deighan will also conduct a listener's survey during the weekly Internet radio broadcast.The live broadcast will also feature these other segments:Special Series: Maternal Morbidity and Mortality: Senior healthcare consultant Kristi Pollard, Director of Coding Quality and Education for the Haugen Consulting Group, wraps up her four-part series on the impact of coding on severe maternal morbidity with a discussion about the intersection of coding and clinical indicators. Conditions specifically in the crossfire are sepsis, acute kidney injury, and coagulation disorders. Pollard will address which data the maternal collaboratives want to track and how you can incorporate these initiatives into existing CDI programs. The Coding Report: Laurie Johnson will report on the outcome of the recent ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting.  RegWatch: Stanley Nachimson, former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) career professional-turned-well-known healthcare IT authority, will report on the most recent final payment rules released by CMS on Tuesday.News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert and ICD10monitor national correspondent, will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.

What can a medical assistant do – and not do?Medical assistants have a narrow list of tasks they can perform for patients or for a doctor in a doctor's office. It's often difficult to know what's allowed, because there are not strong laws or regulations in place regarding medical assistants.Since no one really “regulates” them, and they are frighteningly under-monitored by any sort of government agency, what rules should they follow?In the next live edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays, Terry Fletcher, a nationally recognized professional coder, auditor, and educator, will return to the broadcast with an exclusive report on best practices for medical assistants, but also the imperative admonition: they should not be mistakenly used as nurses.The live broadcast will also feature these other segments:Special Series: Maternal Morbidity and Mortality: Senior healthcare consultant Kristi Pollard, Director of Coding Quality and Education for the Haugen Consulting Group, will continue her four-part series, reporting how coded data is being used by the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) to improve maternal outcomes.The Coding Report: Laurie Johnson will report on the on the outcome of the recent ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting.RegWatch: Stanley Nachimson, former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) career professional-turned-well-known healthcare IT authority, will report on the latest regulatory news coming out of Washington, D.C.News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert and ICD10monitor national correspondent, will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.

Outpatient CDI expert Colleen Deighan will return to the next edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays to continue her popular series on a subject that continues to generate listener interest and questions.Deighan will also conduct a listener's survey during the weekly Internet radio broadcast. When healthcare organizations are considering, planning, or beginning efforts directed toward documentation integrity in the outpatient setting, Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) are a key focus. Deighan will also discuss what to consider when determining the timing of your HCC review, top HCC category specifics, and best practices for compliant HCC reporting.The live broadcast will also feature these other segments:Special Series: Maternal Morbidity and Mortality: Senior healthcare consultant Kristi Pollard, Director of Coding Quality and Education for the Haugen Consulting Group, will continue her four-part series, reporting how coded data is being used by the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) to improve maternal outcomes.The Coding Report: Laurie Johnson will report on the latest coding news.The Dunn Report: Rose T. Dunn, a past president and former CEO of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), will report that ED-level denials are mounting everywhere, and payers are using AI and applying their own criteria.News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert and ICD10monitor national correspondent, will anchor the Talk-Ten-Tuesdays News Desk.Point of View: Susan Gatehouse, founder and CEO of Axea Solutions, will be substituting for Erica Remer, MD. Gatehouse will provide context and commentary on a subject that has caught her attention during a recent edition of the segment.

We're taking AIM at reducing maternal morbidity and mortality during an exclusive four-part series on ICD10monitor and Talk Ten Tuesdays. The series will be led by senior healthcare consultant Kristi Pollard, Director of Coding Quality and Education for the Haugen Consulting Group. During her series, Kristi will discuss how coded data is being used by the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) to improve maternal outcomes. The live broadcast will also feature these other segments: Special Report: American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) 2021 President and Chair Katherine Lusk will discuss accomplishments from her term and how the Association continues to advance and advocate for the creation and use of trusted information. The Coding Report: Laurie Johnson will report on the latest coding news. Tuesday Focus: Telemedicine or Telemarketing: Former special agent for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Eric Rubenstein will report on how fraud, currently being perpetuated against the Medicare population, is best defined as “telemarketing” fraud. Rubenstein is now director of litigation for Advize Health, LLC.  News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert and ICD10monitor national correspondent, will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment. 

Physician engagement, query productivity, and revenue integrity are some but not all of the activities that encompass today's outpatient clinical documentation integrity (OP CDI) arena, which continues to gain traction among America's hospitals and health systems.During an exclusive broadcast report, CDI expert Colleen Deighan will unveil a Talk Ten Tuesdays listener's survey on this topic, in which listeners are encouraged to participate. Delving into the survey responses, Colleen will join us on a biweekly basis through the end of the year, and share her knowledge and experience on how hospitals and health systems can determine where and how to focus their efforts to have the biggest impact.The live broadcast will also feature these other segments:The Coding Report: Laurie Johnson will report on the latest coding news.News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert and ICD10monitor national correspondent, will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.Tuesday Focus: Root operation control guidelines have changed during the last five years, and a new update will take place on Oct. 1, 2021. Senior healthcare consultant Kristi Pollard, director of coding quality and education with Haugen Consulting Group, will report on this topic while providing examples for reporting the control of bleeding.Special Report: The No Surprises Act, or the "balance billing rule" for emergent out-of-network services, saw a provider reprieve as it pertains to the Jan. 1, 2022 effective date,  as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will delay certain provisions of the Act to allow for better infrastructure, interoperability, and communication between payors, facilities, and providers. Nationally recognized professional coder, auditor, and consultant Terry Fletcher will report the good news.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.

Proposition 118 is a ballot measure currently before Colorado voters that would allow for 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave funded through a payroll tax paid by employers and employees in a 50/50 split. Kristi Pollard is a Principal at Catalyst Public Affairs and is opposed to Proposition 118. In this week's episode, she shares the impact the measure would have on businesses and families, the unintended consequences of the measure if it were to pass, who is funding the support side, and much more. While Proposition 118 might appear like an easy proposition to support, the devil is in the details. Tune in to our latest episode to hear more and then visit VoteNoOnProposition118.com for a full rundown.  Prior to her time with Catalyst, Kristi served as the President and CEO of the Jefferson County Economic Development Corporation, a non-profit consortium of business, community and governmental leaders striving to create greater economic vitality in Jefferson County, Colorado. Kristi has diverse experience working in the public, private and non-profit sectors having been the Executive Director of the Grand Junction Economic Partnership, the principal owner of P², LLC, a government relations consulting firm, the CEO of the Colorado Mesa University Foundation, Stakeholder Engagement Specialist for Chevron and an Area Director for the United States Senate. Hosted by Colorado Business Roundtable President Debbie Brown. 

There was a time when the coin of the realm in the world of coding was knowledge of complications or comorbidities (CCs) and major complications or comorbidities (MCCs).But 10 years later, the industry has changed rapidly, and to avoid going the way of the dinosaur, coders today need to embrace all patients’ refined diagnosis-related groups (APR-DRGs) and hierarchical condition categories (HCCs). A coder’s staying power lies beyond MS-DRGs, according to Kristi Pollard, who reports our lead story during this edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays.The live broadcast will also feature these other segments:The Coding Report: Laurie Johnson reports on the latest coding news that has been making headlines. Johnson is a nationally recognized coding authority and senior healthcare consultant at Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC.Tuesday Focus: A recent meta-analysis of studies published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on the effects of nutritional support on clinical outcomes is a trending topic in healthcare’s social media universe. We will have two reports on this topic: Molly Hegarty, founder and CEO of Junum, reports on possible revenue loss when the presence of a malnutrition diagnosis is not documented appropriately, and Dr. McClain Blanton, a physician advisor with the Brundage Group, reports on the clinical aspects of the study.News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert and ICD10monitor national correspondent, anchors the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, reports on another thought-provoking topic that has captured her attention.

Has the art of telling the patient’s story through coding been lost? So ponders Kristi Pollard, a senior coding consultant for the Haugen Group, who reports this intriguing story in this edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays. Pollard is expected to explain that, first and foremost, coders are storytellers who convey each patient’s medical story through codes. The podcast also features these other segments:The Coding Report: Laurie Johnson, a senior healthcare consultant at Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC, discusses World Hepatitis day on the Talk Ten Tuesday coding report.The Dunn Report: National health information management (HIM) expert and past American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) President Rose Dunn returns to the broadcast with the sixth installment in her series on how HIM can play a role in other areas of the revenue cycle.Tuesday Focus: Rhonda Buckholtz, chief compliance officer for Century Vision Global, reports on a mystery code – actually, a diagnosis code – that could trigger an audit that could lead to a complete refund.News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert, and ICD10monitor national correspondent anchors the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, reports on emergency room critical care time documentation.

Fresh from her meeting last week at the World Health Organization (WHO) Morbidity Reference Group in Malmo, Sweden, Margaret Skurka returns to Talk Ten Tuesdays this Tuesday to report on ICD-11 – the new code set that is expected to be released next month by the WHO. Skurka reports on how countries are approaching the implementation of ICD-11. (see ICD11 training videos)Skurka is the past president of the International Federation of Health Information Management Associations, IFHIMA, and the current IFHIMA/AHIMA representative to the WHO Family of International Classifications Education and Implementation Committee. That committee does work on ICD-11, as well as on improving the quality of coded data internationally while recognizing coders around the world. This broadcast will also feature these other segments:Tuesday Focus: Reporting on the challenges associated with ICD-10-PCS coding of cardiovascular surgery is senior healthcare consultant Kristi Pollard, who is with the Haugen Consulting Group. Read Kristi's article that relates to her segment.The ICD-10 Coding Report: Laurie Johnson reports on the latest ICD-10 codes that are making national news. Johnson is a nationally recognized coding authority and senior healthcare consultant at Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC.Dateline Washington: Leslie Krigstein, vice president of congressional affairs for the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME), reports on the latest healthcare news coming out of Washington, D.C. News Desk: Timothy Powell, a compliance expert, and ICD10monitor national correspondent will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, reports on another thought-provoking topic that has captured her attention.

If there is no chief complaint, or no acute or chronic condition, auditors may not even continue with the record and negate its value altogether, according to nationally recognized coding and documentation authority Terry Fletcher, who is currently uncovering errors in an ongoing review of more than 1,000 records. During the next edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays, she will share her findings in the second of a four-part series on auditing issues in physician documentation. Other segments to be featured on the broadcast include: Tuesday Focus: There’s a strong emphasis to collect data about the opioid epidemic, specifically from individuals at risk or already addicted. But what are healthcare organizations doing with this information? Lesley Kadlec with the data analytics practice council at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) reports on how the data can be used to respond to this crisis. Coder Burnout: Confessions of a formerly burned-out coder will come from Kristi Pollard, a senior coding consultant at Haugen Consulting Group, who reports on 10 strategies to keep from feeling the burn. Mental Health Report: Nationally renowned psychiatrist H. Steven Moffic, MD reported on new research that reveals burnout doesn’t just happen at work, but also at home. Dr. Moffic says that parental burnout can intertwine and interact with workplace burnout. Talkback: Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host Erica Remer, MD returns with another installment of her popular segment. Talk Ten Tuesdays. More than just talk.™

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced two days of grilling by Congress last week to address data misuse in the wake of revelations that millions of Facebook users had their private information given away to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica in the run-up to the 2016 Presidential election. Zuckerberg testified before Congress that about 87 million users had their Facebook data taken without their permission. Of those users, many were healthcare professionals who inadvertently allowed hackers and criminals the information they need to break into healthcare systems. Reporting this developing story will be RACmonitor national correspondent and healthcare consultant Timothy Powell. Powell will describe how you can avoid getting your facility ensnarled in the phishing trap. The episode rundown also includes: Monday Rounds: Ronald Hirsch, MD, vice president of R1 Physician Advisory Services, makes his Monday Rounds with another installment of his popular segment. Medicaid Report: Healthcare attorney Knicole Emanuel, partner in the Potomac Law Group, returns with the first part of her exclusive two-part reporting on a state-by-state of review of states' Medicaid regulatory oversight. Medical Necessity: Senior healthcare consultant Kristi Pollard reports on best practices for coding medical necessity on outpatient claims. Pollard is a senior coding consultant at Haugen Consulting Group. Medicare Advantage Report: Monitor Mondays national correspondent J. Paul Spencer continues to report on the vexing issue of Medicare Advantage. Spencer is a senior healthcare consultant for DoctorsManagement. Monitor with us™