NYHIMA Webinar Library
NYHIMA’s audio/webinars allow you to participate online from your work or home environment. If you missed or have a schedule conflict with a live audio/webinar, feel free to register and request access to the recording and handout. CEUs will be awarded for purchased webinars after completing a short post-webinar quiz!
NYHIMA Central Office will keep records of quiz results
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
1 CEU
Presented by: Dawson Ballard
This session focuses on diagnosis areas most frequently scrutinized during coding and payer audits. Attendees will learn about common documentation gaps, specificity errors, and guideline misinterpretations that place certain ICD‑10‑CM categories at higher risk for denials and recoupments.
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
1 CEU
Presented by: Dawson Ballard
This educational session is designed to demystify the critical connection between diagnosis coding and procedure reporting. Participants will explore how accurate ICD‑10‑CM selection supports CPT® codes by clearly demonstrating medical necessity—a key factor in compliant billing, reduced denials, and optimized reimbursement.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
1 CEU
Agenda
Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) programs have matured across many healthcare systems, yet one persistent challenge remains: meaningful physician engagement. This session explores why traditional approaches—focused on queries, education, and compliance—often fall short, and reframes physician engagement as a relationship, workflow, and change management challenge rather than a documentation issue alone.
Drawing on real-world experience and established frameworks such as ADKAR and Kotter’s change model, this presentation provides a practical roadmap for engaging physicians as partners in CDI. Attendees will learn how to translate CDI into clinically relevant language, align documentation with clinical thinking, and embed CDI into existing workflows in a way that supports - not disrupts - patient care.
Through case-based examples and actionable strategies, the session will demonstrate how organizations can move from a query-driven model to a collaborative approach that improves documentation accuracy, reduces rework, enhances data quality, and better reflects patient complexity and outcomes.
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Join fellow CDI and HIM professionals—including clinical documentation specialists, coders, revenue cycle leaders, and health information management experts—from across New York and the greater New England region for a dynamic, results‑oriented virtual conference designed to elevate your impact in today’s increasingly complex healthcare environment.
Webinar Part 2: Application and Mastery — Elevating CDI Practice Through Collaborative Review
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Part 2 builds on the foundational concepts introduced in Part 1, challenging participants to apply advanced documentation review techniques to more complex inpatient encounters. This session focuses on deeper clinical analysis, collaborative problem-solving, and translating record review findings into actionable CDI practice improvements.
Working in small groups, attendees will finalize their review of higher-complexity cases, identify documentation gaps affecting medical necessity, coding accuracy, and defensibility, and present their findings to peers. Facilitated discussion will connect case findings to real-world payer audit trends, appeal risks, and best practices for strengthening provider documentation.
The session concludes with strategies for improving CDI workflows, enhancing provider engagement, and implementing ongoing peer review processes within CDI teams. Participants will leave with concrete tools and insights to elevate their CDI review skills and support compliant, defensible documentation across their organizations.
Speaker:
Glenn Krauss, BBA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, CCDS, C-CDI, C-DAM
Founder of Core-CDI.com
Webinar Part 1: Laying the Foundation — Analyzing Documentation for Clinical and Financial Integrity
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Webinar Part 1: Laying the Foundation — Analyzing Documentation for Clinical and Financial Integrity
In Part 1 of this two-part CDI skills development series, participants will build a strong foundation for critically reviewing inpatient documentation with a focus on clinical validity, medical necessity, and financial integrity. This interactive session introduces a structured, end-to-end approach to analyzing inpatient encounters—from admission through discharge—while highlighting common documentation gaps that place organizations at risk for denials, downgrades, and recoupments.
Through facilitator-guided instruction and collaborative small-group case review, attendees will practice identifying insufficient or unclear documentation, evaluating diagnostic support, and understanding how documentation weaknesses translate into payer scrutiny. This session emphasizes CDI’s evolving role as a clinical partner and educator, moving beyond query generation to proactive documentation improvement.
Participants will leave with a practical review framework, increased confidence in analyzing inpatient records, and a preparatory assignment involving more complex cases to be addressed in Part 2.
Speaker:
Glenn Krauss, BBA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, CCDS, C-CDI, C-DAM
Founder of Core-CDI.com
Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025
1 CEU
Speaker:
Diane Beatini, Principal Customer Advisor for HealtheConnections
Summary of Presentation:
This session provides a comprehensive look at Health Information Exchange (HIE) across New York State, exploring both statewide initiatives through the Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY) and local implementation. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of how HIEs work, the role of organizations like HealtheConnections, and emerging initiatives.
Wednesday, November 12th at 12:00 PM
1 CEU
This webinar explores the common challenges and meaningful rewards of educating clinicians and introducing clinician partners to Risk Adjustment methodology. Participants will learn strategies for maintaining program integrity, gain an understanding of the “3 Ps” of clinician education, and review practical examples for communicating with clinicians in an effective and efficient way. The session also includes access to key references and supplemental resources for continued learning.
1 CEU
Join Kelly McLendon, RHIA, CHPS, for a practical, jargon-free session on AI Governance and HIPAA Compliance.
Learn how to integrate AI tools—from clinical to revenue cycle—into your existing compliance framework. You will gain operational strategies to manage privacy and security risks, understand the role of HIPAA in guiding AI development, and explore current enforcement trends and civil liability requirements.
Outpatient CDI - Is It Just About HCCs and Risk Adjustment Factor Scores?
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
1 CEU
This one-hour session will introduce Health Information Management (HIM) professionals to the broader scope of Outpatient Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) beyond HCCs and Risk Adjustment Factor (RAF) scores. Attendees will learn how effective outpatient CDI enhances documentation accuracy, supports value-based care, ensures compliance, mitigates denials, and strengthens revenue cycle performance, while also exploring strategies to design and implement a successful CDI program.
Evaluation & Management - The "Standards of Documentation"
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
1 CEU
This session offers a focused overview of 2023 Evaluation and Management (E&M) guidelines, highlighting the importance of documentation and medical necessity in accurate coding. Attendees will explore the physician’s role across care settings, clinical decision-making, and CDI opportunities. Through interactive case studies, participants will practice leveling H&Ps and progress notes to improve coding accuracy and compliance.
Blockchain Technology in Healthcare: Reinventing Trust, Security, and Access Through Blockchain-Based EH
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
1 CEU
This one-hour session will introduce Health Information Management (HIM) professionals to the potential of blockchain technology in healthcare, with a focus on blockchain-based Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Attendees will learn how blockchain can enhance data integrity, privacy, interoperability, and patient ownership, while also exploring its comparison to traditional data models and the evolving role of HIM professionals in its adoption.
Telehealth Updates 2025
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
1 CEU
This presentation will cover the latest updates on telehealth, including the extension to September 30 of the waivers enacted during the COVID public health emergency, CPT code updates for 2025 and payer coverage.
Risk Adjustment Coding & Methodology
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
1 CEU
This webinar we will discuss the definition and benefits of risk adjustment, the innerworkings of the risk adjustment methodology, the importance of accurate coding and documentation of chronic conditions, as well as industry trends and audit risk and compliance.
AI And Its Applications in Healthcare
Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
1 CEU
This webinar will talk about AI and its applications in healthcare. We will briefly describe the history of AI, the rise of Generative AI and Large-Language Models, and how they might be useful in meeting the challenges of healthcare, as well as their limitations.
Survey of Hot Legal Topics - Items to Address for 2025
Thursday, January 16th, 2025
1 CEU
This webinar will cover a far too fast survey of issues to educate attendees on how they may be able to assist their organizations with challenges created by the current legal environment. Some hot topics include:
- Privacy and Security
- Audits
- Compliance
- Record Keeping
- Training
CMS OPPS and MPFS Final Rule Summary, 2025 Updates
Tuesday, December 17th, 2024
1 CEU
This webinar will reveal key updates in the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment Systems (OPPS) and Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rules for 2025. The presentation will outline Medicare payment rates with impactful provisions effective starting January 1, 2025. The webinar provides essential insights for healthcare stakeholders, aiding in their understanding and adaption to changes in reimbursement and care delivery within the evolving landscape of outpatient hospital services under Medicare.
HIPAA and Reproductive Health Care Privacy
Friday, November 22nd, 2024
1 CEU
On April 22, 2024, the Office of Civil Rights issued a final rule on HIPAA and the privacy of reproductive health information. It was the most sweeping change to the HIPAA Privacy Rule in the 21 years the Privacy Rule has been in place and it raises new concerns about what covered entities must to be in compliance. This webinar will explain the new requirements in detail and offer information to assist HIM and compliance professionals to ensure their organizations are up to date on these requirements.
Denial Management - Understanding Edits and Applying Modifiers
Wednesday, October 30th, 2024
1 CEU
Coding and Billing staff at Hospitals are increasingly responsible for interpreting Medicare and Medicaid edits and determining when a modifier is appropriate. This presentation will summarize the key Medicare edits (OCE, MUE and CCI) as well as common hospital-outpatient modifiers and their application. We will review and summarize some of the issues surrounding the reporting of modifiers. Case examples will be utilized for the training.
AI in Healthcare - The Buzz of the Decade - Diving Deeper into AI Governance
Thursday, October 24th, 2024
1 CEU
This timely presentation delivers an update about new the new trends arising in relation to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and in healthcare. Machine learning is also addressed to the extent it is tied to AI. The trends have been emerging but took off with much more energy in 2023 with the rise of generative AI such as ChatGPT and OpenAI. Although we have seen much writing and technical jargon on the subject, there remains a need for clear understanding of what is and what is not on the table with AI and its sub-concept Machine Learning from a health information and privacy, security or other areas of compliance perspectives.
Authentic Leadership
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
1 CEU
The ‘Authentic Leadership’ presentation offers information and ideas on self-development from a leadership perspective. With authenticity as the goal, the presentation leverages media from outside leadership experts, presents related ideas, tools, and concepts, and explores how socialization and the demands of life may impact leaders.
Strategies for Healthcare Information Leadership: Overcoming Staffing Challenges
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
1 CEU
Healthcare is undergoing a profound transformation, as most U.S. health systems struggle with high turnover, evolving work models, and low employee engagement. While these models offer flexibility for staff, they also face skepticism surrounding productivity, collaboration and trustworthiness. This event will delve into the challenges faced by health information leaders including understaffing, skill gaps, and fluctuating workloads. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of these issues and discover innovative solutions to help leaders overcome these universal challenges.
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