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Sepsis: From Triage to Reimbursement (4-part Series)
A Team-Based Program for System-Wide Improvement
Virtual sessions via Zoom
Wednesdays | 9:00am - 12:00pm CT
- September 9, 2026
- October 14, 2026
- November 11, 2026
- December 9, 2026
Registration Deadline: August 19th
Missed the deadline? Click here to inquire if spots remain.
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Fee:
Member & Affiliate Member:
$1,750 per facility*
Non-RWHC Member:
$2,100 per facility*
* Each hospital and its hospital-owned clinics are defined as one facility. Each independently owned clinic is defined as one facility.
PLEASE NOTE: The program fee is NON-refundable. Pre-payment is not required. RWHC will invoice your organization.
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Presenters
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Physician Advisor
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Renee Friesen
CCS, CCS.P, CAH-CBS RWHC Manager of Coding & Reimbursement
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Sarah Ewers
BSN, RN RWHC Nursing Clinical Development Educator
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Janet Wagner
BSN, MS-OLQ, CPHQ RWHC Quality Services Senior Manager
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Paul Mariskanish
MD
Emergency Department
Crossing Rivers Health
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Target Audience:
Multidisciplinary healthcare teams in ambulatory and hospital settings, including providers, pharmacists, nurses, support staff, coders/billers, CDI and quality professionals, infection preventionists, wound care, and informatics specialists.
Program Description:
Sepsis is the leading cause of death in hospitals in the United States, and the number one cost of hospitalization reimbursement, per Sepsis Alliance.
This 4-part series is designed to bring together your organization's multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes, identify key elements of documentation, and optimize reimbursement. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with other organizations to work through process improvement and patient outcomes regarding sepsis.
This comprehensive series will focus on the critical phases of the patient journey: Triage, standards of care, documentation, and discharge planning. In addition, improved quality outcomes and reimbursement are expected.
Program Objectives:
Part 1: Early Recognition and Triage
- Engage in case-based scenarios to identify sepsis
- Identify criteria to initiate appropriate work-up
- Recognize sepsis bundles to guide treatment plan
- Identify the correlation of clinical symptoms and lab findings in early sepsis detection
Part 2: Documentation Matters
- Understand how documentation contributes to interdisciplinary communication
- Identify protocol activation within the EMR
- Improve documentation for patient outcomes
Part 3: Discharge Planning and Transitions
- Evaluate outcome of care as part of quality improvement initiatives
- Recognize improvement in patients with suspected or confirmed sepsis
- Identify follow up patient care needs
Part 4: Reimbursement and Denial Prevention
- Identify reasons for denial management
- Improve timely payment claim reimbursement
- Differentiate between diagnosis sequencing
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