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AHIMA Health Information Advocate – March 2023

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 Collection, Integration, and Use. Capitol Hill Update President’s Budget: On Thursday, March 9, President Biden sent his Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) budget proposal to Congress, Read more

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Spotlight: Lorri Lauzze, RHIT, CHC

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 stem from her strong background as an Inpatient and Outpatient Coder and as a Clinical Documentation Specialist (CDI). She was in the right place at Read more

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Donna Barnard

Donna Barnard, RHIA, CHFP, MBA

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 Rochester Medical Center (URMC) where she will be celebrating her 25th anniversary next May. During her tenure at URMC she has witnessed the transformation of Read more

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Act Now to Urge Your Members of Congress to Repeal Section 510 in the Labor-HHS Appropriations Bills

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 For the fourth year, the US House of Representatives has repealed Section 510 from its Labor-HHS appropriations bill, and for the second year the Senate draft Labor-HHS bill also removed Section 510 from their bill. We need you Read more

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Lisa Wild

Spotlight: Elizabeth “Lisa” Wild, RHIA, CHPS

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 HIM professionals, Lisa was first drawn to coding. “In college I loved coding and I loved data.” She earned her Bachelors of Science degree in Read more

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Ann Ortolaza

Spotlight: Ann Marie Ortolaza, RHIT

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 hospital. Walking down the hallway she spotted a big Medical Records sign and wondered what it was all about. There was something about the hospital Read more

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