Lead CDI specialist Palomar Medical Center Escondido, California Kormuskina has more 10 years of nursing experience at Palomar Health, having spent the first five as a bedside nurse in various settings from medical/surgical to the progressive care unit, with focus on pulmonary and trauma patients. She enjoys teaching and preparing educational sessions and e-mail tips for providers and on-boarding new CDI professionals and providers by providing one-on-one CDI orientations. Kormuskina has been involved in multiple projects and initiatives with a specific focus on quality and revenue. Coding/CDI auditing, denial appeals, and mortality reviews are some of the additional areas of her expertise. Her experience has primarily been in the inpatient arena, but recently she began developing an outpatient CDI program from scratch. It has been an interesting journey. Matacale, RN, BSN, CCS CDI specialist Vidant Health Middlesex, North Carolina Sarah Matacale is a CDI specialist with more than 20 years’ experience in nursing specializing in cardiac critical care and hospice. She has nursing experience in a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient areas. After suffering a large extent of hearing loss, Matacale regrouped, and refocused her career goals on CDI efforts and has been diving head first into charts ever since. Longing for a way to reach people, writing became an outlet and she has written about CDI on nursing websites and for magazines. Lakeyshia Moore, MBA, RHIA, CHCO Senior director of coding and reimbursement Texas Health Resources Arlington, Texas Lakeyshia is currently responsible for coding operations for 18 hospital entities. She has more than 17 years of HIM and healthcare experience, including in leadership, compliance, HIPAA, Recovery Audit Contractor, CDI, hospital coding, informatics, and project management. Some of her proudest accomplishments include decreasing the discharge not final billed (DNFB), successfully implementing an enterprise document imaging solution, and leading a successful ICD-10 implementation. She is currently serving as president elect for Dallas Fort Worth American Health Information Management Association and she is on the nomination committee
Lead CDI specialist Palomar Medical Center Escondido, California Kormuskina has more 10 years of nursing experience at Palomar Health, having spent the first five as a bedside nurse in various settings from medical/surgical to the progressive care unit, with focus on pulmonary and trauma patients. She enjoys teaching and preparing educational sessions and e-mail tips for providers and on-boarding new CDI professionals and providers by providing one-on-one CDI orientations. Kormuskina has been involved in multiple projects and initiatives with a specific focus on quality and revenue. Coding/CDI auditing, denial appeals, and mortality reviews are some of the additional areas of her expertise. Her experience has primarily been in the inpatient arena, but recently she began developing an outpatient CDI program from scratch. It has been an interesting journey. Matacale, RN, BSN, CCS CDI specialist Vidant Health Middlesex, North Carolina Sarah Matacale is a CDI specialist with more than 20 years’ experience in nursing specializing in cardiac critical care and hospice. She has nursing experience in a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient areas. After suffering a large extent of hearing loss, Matacale regrouped, and refocused her career goals on CDI efforts and has been diving head first into charts ever since. Longing for a way to reach people, writing became an outlet and she has written about CDI on nursing websites and for magazines. Lakeyshia Moore, MBA, RHIA, CHCO Senior director of coding and reimbursement Texas Health Resources Arlington, Texas Lakeyshia is currently responsible for coding operations for 18 hospital entities. She has more than 17 years of HIM and healthcare experience, including in leadership, compliance, HIPAA, Recovery Audit Contractor, CDI, hospital coding, informatics, and project management. Some of her proudest accomplishments include decreasing the discharge not final billed (DNFB), successfully implementing an enterprise document imaging solution, and leading a successful ICD-10 implementation. She is currently serving as president elect for Dallas Fort Worth American Health Information Management Association and she is on the nomination committee
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