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As value-based care continues to reshape payment models, many health systems struggle to balance financial performance with care quality goals. This session will offer practical strategies to use denial data, coding insights, and care coordination metrics to strengthen value-based outcomes—without sacrificing revenue. This discussion will highlight how to engage teams, optimize processes, and identify sustainable financial opportunities within value-based contracts.


Learning Objectives:

  • Learn how to use denial patterns and audit insights to improve documentation, coding accuracy, and contract performance.
  • Gain strategies to foster physician buy-in and leadership collaboration, finding “win-win” solutions that support both revenue integrity and value-based care success.
Revenue Cycle Management

Author:

Corella Lumpkins

Manager of Coding, Compliance and Provider Education
Loudoun Medical Group P.C.

Corella Lumpkins is the Manager of Coding, Compliance & Provider Education at Loudoun Medical Group (LMG) - one of the largest and most diverse physician-owned, multi-specialty Accountable Care Organizations in Northern Virginia/DC suburbs. As a subject matter expert, Corella has over 35 years of experience working in every area of the healthcare revenue cycle. Corella holds a bachelor’s degree and eleven certifications with an extensive background in auditing, billing, coding, implementing corporate compliance programs, CDI, education, denial and practice management. Prior to joining LMG, Corella has held leadership roles at Lifebridge, Medstar, Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland health systems.

Corella is an author, adjunct faculty member and national speaker currently serving on both the AAPC National Advisory Board and Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists (ACDIS) Leadership Council. Corella works closely with providers in navigating patient-centric value-based care. 

Corella Lumpkins

Manager of Coding, Compliance and Provider Education
Loudoun Medical Group P.C.

Corella Lumpkins is the Manager of Coding, Compliance & Provider Education at Loudoun Medical Group (LMG) - one of the largest and most diverse physician-owned, multi-specialty Accountable Care Organizations in Northern Virginia/DC suburbs. As a subject matter expert, Corella has over 35 years of experience working in every area of the healthcare revenue cycle. Corella holds a bachelor’s degree and eleven certifications with an extensive background in auditing, billing, coding, implementing corporate compliance programs, CDI, education, denial and practice management. Prior to joining LMG, Corella has held leadership roles at Lifebridge, Medstar, Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland health systems.

Corella is an author, adjunct faculty member and national speaker currently serving on both the AAPC National Advisory Board and Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists (ACDIS) Leadership Council. Corella works closely with providers in navigating patient-centric value-based care. 

Hospice care is meant to support patients in their final months of life, yet inappropriate or prolonged utilization continues to raise clinical, ethical, and payment integrity concerns. This session will provide critical insights into what constitutes appropriate hospice enrollment, how to identify red flags for overutilization, and strategies hospitals and health plans can use to ensure hospice services align with medical necessity.


Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the clinical criteria for appropriate hospice enrollment and identify common patterns of misuse that may lead to unnecessary costs and compliance risks.
  • Gain tools and best practices for conducting eligibility reviews, improving documentation scrutiny, and collaborating across teams to prevent improper payments while supporting appropriate patient care.
Payment Integrity

Author:

Michael Devine

Director Special Investigations Unit
L.A Care

Michael Devine

Director Special Investigations Unit
L.A Care

Diagnosis codes and modifiers aren’t just billing details—they tell the story that determines how your claims are paid. When these elements don’t align, hospitals face denials, delays, and compliance risks. This session will break down how to accurately connect coding choices with billing practices to ensure claims reflect true clinical intent, reduce audit exposure, and secure appropriate reimbursement.


Learning Objectives:

  • Recognize the most common coding and modifier missteps that lead to denials and learn how to avoid them through stronger documentation and coding practices.
  • Implement strategies to bridge gaps between clinical, coding, and billing teams—ensuring consistent, compliant claims that tell the right story from documentation to payment.
Revenue Cycle Management

Author:

Stephanie Sjogren

Director, Coding and Provider Reimbursement
EmblemHealth/Connecticare

Stephanie Sjogren is a director of coding and provider reimbursement, working with payment integrity to ensure proper claims adjudication and to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse. Prior to joining ConnectiCare/EmblemHealth, she performed provider audits and education at a women’s healthcare group. Sjogren has also worked with physicians and staff to integrate and use electronic health record systems effectively and to stay in compliance with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ rules and regulations. Her areas of specialty are payment integrity, auditing, and clinical documentation improvement. 

Stephanie Sjogren

Director, Coding and Provider Reimbursement
EmblemHealth/Connecticare

Stephanie Sjogren is a director of coding and provider reimbursement, working with payment integrity to ensure proper claims adjudication and to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse. Prior to joining ConnectiCare/EmblemHealth, she performed provider audits and education at a women’s healthcare group. Sjogren has also worked with physicians and staff to integrate and use electronic health record systems effectively and to stay in compliance with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ rules and regulations. Her areas of specialty are payment integrity, auditing, and clinical documentation improvement. 

Industry benchmarks to measure the impact of payment integrity currently don't exist, making it challenging to optimize performance and areas of opportunity. Standards are extremely complicated due to varied member populations and an inconsistent approach to calculating metrics.


In this groundbreaking panel discussion, learn how a Working Group of payer and vendor SMEs have been collaborating over the last six months to develop a standard approach to calculating savings PMPM across LOB and audit programs. This session will share standard definitions and calculations, so attendees can understand how to calculate and compare their savings PMPM.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn about standard definitions and calculations for savings PMPM that apply to any type of plan, across LOB, region, and program audit
  • Understand how to develop savings PMPM metrics that are comparable to a standard industry range
  • Provide feedback on the approach to ensure benchmarks are applicable to your organization
  • Access resources and expert guidance to support development of benchmarks 
Payment Integrity
Moderator

Author:

Natalie Clayton

Head of Market Intelligence
Kisaco Research

Natalie Clayton

Head of Market Intelligence
Kisaco Research

Author:

Monique Pierce

Payment Solutions & Operations
Cohere Health

Monique started her Payment Integrity career in COB at Oxford HealthPlans.  After the merger with UnitedHealthcare, she led multiple teams and was responsible for creating innovative programs. Monique joined SCIO Health Analytics in 2014 and was responsible for system and process improvements before being promoted to VP of client engagement and business optimization   In 2020, Monique joined start-up Devoted Health and created a full suite of programs from the ground up.   Based on a passion for metrics and measuring performance, she centralized and standardized all programs reducing implementation time and maximizing savings.   Today, Monique is driving opportunities to improve claim payment by designing and developing new prior auth and claim reconciliation products at Cohere Health.  

Monique Pierce

Payment Solutions & Operations
Cohere Health

Monique started her Payment Integrity career in COB at Oxford HealthPlans.  After the merger with UnitedHealthcare, she led multiple teams and was responsible for creating innovative programs. Monique joined SCIO Health Analytics in 2014 and was responsible for system and process improvements before being promoted to VP of client engagement and business optimization   In 2020, Monique joined start-up Devoted Health and created a full suite of programs from the ground up.   Based on a passion for metrics and measuring performance, she centralized and standardized all programs reducing implementation time and maximizing savings.   Today, Monique is driving opportunities to improve claim payment by designing and developing new prior auth and claim reconciliation products at Cohere Health.  

Author:

Dr Priscilla Alfaro, MD, FAAP, CPC, CPMA, COC, CIC, CFE

VP Payment Integrity
Blue Cross NC

Dr. Priscilla Alfaro is a seasoned healthcare professional with extensive experience in executive medical management, fraud prevention, and healthcare analytics. A certified medical coder, fraud examiner, and auditor, she has a proven track record of improving healthcare efficiency and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse across various roles and affiliations, including the Texas HHS and Anthem.

Dr Priscilla Alfaro, MD, FAAP, CPC, CPMA, COC, CIC, CFE

VP Payment Integrity
Blue Cross NC

Dr. Priscilla Alfaro is a seasoned healthcare professional with extensive experience in executive medical management, fraud prevention, and healthcare analytics. A certified medical coder, fraud examiner, and auditor, she has a proven track record of improving healthcare efficiency and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse across various roles and affiliations, including the Texas HHS and Anthem.

Curated meetings based on your RCM/PI painpoints and investments -30 minutes each -3 meetings per registered individual -All those not scheduled to take meetings will be encouraged to take part in interactive sessions, competitions and activities in the exhibition room.

Medical Cost Containment

Take a break to grab a drink, enjoy a snack, and connect with presenters after their sessions. Don’t miss the interactive sessions and competitions happening in the exhibition room during this time!

Medical Cost Containment

Discover how to turn price transparency from a regulatory requirement into a strategic advantage across revenue cycle management and payment integrity. This session will explore how hospitals and health plans can leverage pricing data to drive smarter audits, reduce payment disputes, and strengthen compliance, all while improving patient trust and financial outcomes.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand how both hospitals and health plans can integrate pricing data into payment integrity processes to proactively identify discrepancies, minimize denials, and resolve disputes more efficiently.
  • Learn best practices for aligning data sources, contract terms, and audit strategies between health plans and hospitals to ensure ongoing compliance with price transparency regulations and avoid penalties
Medical Cost Containment

Author:

Dave Cardelle

Chief Strategy Officer
AMS

Dave Cardelle

Chief Strategy Officer
AMS

Author:

Symone Rosales

Director of Revenue Cycle Regulatory Research
SSM Health

Symone Rosales

Director of Revenue Cycle Regulatory Research
SSM Health
 

Mark Buehrer

PE Founder & CEO
heartfoods

Mark Buehrer

PE Founder & CEO
heartfoods

Mark Buehrer

PE Founder & CEO
heartfoods