Sharon Kolch

Manager, Cdi and Coding Consultants @UnitedHealth Group

Provide operational assessment reviews to acute care centers on key metrics used in clinical coding, Clinical Documentation Improvement, Risk Adjustment and Quality initiative operations. Provided best practice solutions, education and consulting on operations to optimize performance in CDI, Coding, Quality and Risk Adjustment. Lead Data Governance for product lines to support reporting requirements current and future state. • Developed business intelligence to provide management of Revenue Cycle operations for acute care centers. Provided consultation to customers using the performance metrics to help establish baseline, best practice and ongoing optimization of coding and CDI practices. • Shared best practice guidance for coding and CDI operations to support key impacts on revenue cycle including Risk Adjustment strategies and quality initiatives.*Evaluated electronic documentation in major EHR systems i.e. EPIC, Cerner to assure all key data sets were mapped correctly for inclusion and use in documentation to support patient care and payments.