Sara Clark, RHIA, MLS, AHIMA Approved Trainer

Director, Provider Consulting Solutions
Pesentation: HCC Capture from the Payer Perspective

Ms. Clark has extensive experience developed over 25 years in all facets of Health Information Management. Her areas of expertise include inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems ICD-10-CM/PCS classification system, HCC coding, compliance, documentation improvement, operational assessment, and use of InterQual criteria for appropriateness of admission reviews. Ms. Clark is an AHIMA approved ICD-10 trainer.

Prior to working as a consultant with Provider Consulting Solutions, Inc. and Besler, Ms. Clark was the Director of Health Information Services for an integrated delivery system that included three acute care hospitals, a large multi-specialty physician group and 21 regional clinics. Her duties included responsibility and management of the system-wide unit medical record, coding of inpatient and outpatient services, transcription, release of information and privacy. An electronic health record (EHR) was implemented at the facility during her tenure.

Recently PCS has been working with a Medicare Advantage Plan/Nursing Home to assist them with the transition from RAPS submissions to encounter based submissions for Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC) codes.