CDIMD provides physician champions to physician groups, hospitals, accountable care organizations, medical homes, and other integrated delivery systems who compliantly support the integrity of ICD-10-CM/PCS codes essential to PPACA-pertinent severity and risk adjustments. Our unique niche is that we support our clients on a real-time basis BEFORE the claim is submitted as well as develop and implement infrastructure and training that captures clinically congruent documentation at the point of care. We specialize in HCCs integral to the Medicare Value-Based Purchasing modifier (pertinent to groups of over 100 providers in 2015 and others in 2017), IPAs or health plans invested in Medicare Advantage, and accountable care organizations, MS-DRGs and APR-DRGs integral to Medicare inpatient bundled pay initiatives, and other ICD-10-based severity and risk-adjustment methodologies.

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Membership in internal medicine's premier professional organization.

Internal Medicine's premier professional organization

Develops content for and supervises the deployment of FTI Health Solutions's Clinical Documentation and Coding Integrity services. Specializes in bridging the gap between physicians and coding staff in the deployment of ICD-9-CM or ICD-10 codes essential to inpatient Diagnosis-Related Groups (MS-DRG, APR-DRG), inpatient and outpatient Hierarchical Conditions Classifications (HCC), CMS value-based purchasing, and other healthcare quality and cost efficiency methodologies.

Supported ACDIS's professional advocacy of provider queries from coders and concurrent inpatient reviewers (CDSs) to compliantly reconcile incomplete, inconsistent, imprecise, conflicting, or illegible documentation prior to the coding and submission of HIPAA-compliant transaction sets. Continues to support the organization through provision of educational content via teleconferences or in person.

Wrote the book "Severity-Adjusted DRGs - An MS-DRG Primer".

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Clinical Documentation Improvement implementation

Primary care and hospital internal medicine. Medical Examiner of Williamson County, Tennessee. Chairman of E-911 Board for Williamson County.