Action Items Write to your member of Congress ask ask them to repeal Section 510 from the FY24 Labor-HHS appropriations bill! Make sure to view the study released by AHIMA last month and conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago: Social Determinants of Health Data: Survey Results on the Read more
Lorri Lauzze, RHIT, CHC, is the Director of Corporate Compliance for Rochester Regional Health (RRH) and has been in the department since the program’s inception more than 20 years ago. Lorri was a key contributor in designing, planning, and implementing the Corporate Compliance program. The building blocks of her career Read more
Respectfully submitted, Beth Ann Hinog, MSHIA, RHIA RRHIMA First Year Educational Director & 2023 NYHIMA Educational Committee Member
RRHIMA made several bylaws changes at the Mid-Year Business Meeting on January 26, 2023. A vote was taken and the bylaw changes were approved. Please take a look at these RRHIMA bylaw changes today.
Donna Barnard has been working in the HIM field for 37 years and contributes her multi-faceted HIM career path to “being in the right place at the right time and finding the right thing I enjoy doing.” Currently, she is the Director of Health Information Management/Utilization Management at University of Read more
As Congress is working to pass a final federal budget before the end of the year, we need your help to urge Congress to finally repeal Section 510 from the Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) Labor-HHS appropriations bill. For the fourth year, the US House of Representatives has repealed Section 510 Read more
November 21, 2022 In attendance: Leslie Mills, Karen Getman, Beth Ann Hinog, Donna Barnard Staff: Alexis Vetro, MaryBeth Schneider Upcoming webinars: Other Items for follow-up
Beth Ann Hinog, Co-Director of Education (1st year), and Mary Pasciak, President of RRHIMA, had a great time today at the Breast Cancer Walk at Frontier Field. There were many walkers today. The walk was sponsored by Rochester Regional Health System. There were over 509 walkers from RGH alone!!
Elizabeth “Lisa” Wild, RHIA, CHPS, has been working in the HIM field for over 30 years. As Senior Manager of the Privacy Program at Rochester Regional Health for the past seven years she says, “I can’t say I fell into the position. I kind of ran into it.” Like many Read more
Ann Ortolaza, RHIT and former “roving” reporter for this column for the past four years will be celebrating her 10th Anniversary as an Outpatient Coder for Rochester Regional Health on July 5, 2022. Her love for the HIM field began when she as a teenager visiting her mother in the Read more