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Important Update

Dear AAHIM Members and Fellow Colleagues:

Over the last week, AAHIM leadership has discussed the coronavirus situation and how this could affect the makeup of our coding symposium and annual meeting. Because of the increased risk, along with following the guidelines from national and state officials, we have made the decision to postpone both meetings. However, we are still contractually obligated to both venues. The new dates for both meetings are:

State Meeting – August 12 – 14, 2020
Coding Symposium – September 25, 2020

If you have registered for either of these meetings, your registration will be carried over to the new date, unless otherwise noted. You will also still have an opportunity to register to attend these meetings.

We understand that education is very important to you. We are in the process of discussing ways to bring you virtual meetings that will offer CEs. More details of that will come soon.

The Board will continue to monitor the situation and keep you updated. Please feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns at karenprice@aahim.org.

We appreciate your understanding and hope that you and your family stay safe during this time of uncertainty.

2019-2020 AAHIM Board

AHIMA’s 2020 “Virtual Hill Day” – FREE Webinar

Register Now for AHIMA’s Virtual Hill Day Webinar Join AHIMA’s Policy & Government Affairs team for our 2020 Virtual Hill Day webinar on March 19 at 12 p.m. CT.

Attendees will learn how they can advocate on behalf of the HIM profession, gain an understanding of the public policy issues AHIMA is focusing on before Congress, and learn how to contact their elected officials via phone, email, or social media with a comprehensive walkthrough of AHIMA’s Advocacy Action Center.

Click here to register for the free webinar now.

Audit Summit – Cancelled

2020 Audit Summit has been cancelled.

Please plan to join us on April 8, to hear about Appropriate Use Criteria, OIG/DOJ updates along with other up-to-date topics.

Click here for Audit Summit agenda.
Click here for registration information and form. 

Southern Coding Symposium – May 1, 2020

Please SAVE THE DATE and join us for the Southern Coding Symposium.

Date:
May 1, 2020

Location:
5 Rivers Delta Resource Center
30945 Five Rivers Boulevard, Spanish Fort, AL 36527

AAHIM Coding Symposium

Please save the date and plan to join us for the AAHIM Coding Symposium

Friday, March 20, 2020
Vestavia Country Club

Registration will be opening soon!!

Take the Next Step in Leadership – Apply for an Elected Volunteer Position with AHIMA

AHIMA is looking for strategic, innovative, dedicated members to be considered for one of our five elected roles in 2021.

View the opportunities for the AHIMA President/Chair-elect, Board of Directors, CEE members, CCHIIM Commissioners, and Speaker-elect of the House of Delegates on the AHIMA website.

Select the Elected Positions tab from the top toolbar to review each description. The application for each position is posted on Engage’s Volunteer Center.

Questions?  Feel free to contact profession.governance@ahima.org.

Patient Matching Update

As the Senate leaves town for August district work period, I wanted to provide a quick update on where things are with the patient matching issue in Congress and to ask for your assistance. As you may recall in June the House adopted an amendment that would strike language in the FY20 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education (Labor-HHS) Appropriations bill that prohibits the US Department of Health and Human Services from using federal funds to promulgate or adopt a unique patient identifier.

Striking this language will provide the US Department of Health and Human Services the ability to evaluate a full range of patient matching solutions and enable it to work with the private sector to identify a solution that is cost-effective, scalable, secure and one that protects patient privacy. Now that a budget deal has materialized, when the Senate returns in September, we expect them to quickly take up the Senate FY20 Labor-HHS appropriations bill. We are trying to build grassroots support for the Senate to reject inclusion of this outdated language as the House did in June.

Along these lines, we’ve created a new engagement at AHIMA’s Advocacy Action Center and we have two favors to ask— 

  • Head to the Advocacy Action Center to contact your US Senator about this critical issue. 
  • Encourage others to take action as well. 

Our goal between now and September is to garner as much grassroots support as possible to continue to move this issue forward. 

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks for your support of HIM!! 

AAHIM Board