Sessions & Speakers

2025 Essentials & Fundamentals

	Medicare’s Two-Midnight Rule and Medicare Basics Juliet Ugarte Hopkins, MD, ACPA-C (Pronouns: She/Her) Payor Peer-to-Peer Physician Advisor with R1 RCM, Inc. Founder/CEO of Velvet Hammer Physician Advising LLC
	Condition Code 44 and Self-Denials Ronald Hirsch, MD, FACP, CHRI, ACPA-C Vice President / Regulation & Education Group, R1 Physician Advisory Solutions
	Determining Status Outside of the Two-Midnight Rule (Non-Medicare Payors) Erin Boyd, MD, MBA, CHCQM-PHYADV, ACPA-C Associate Chief Medical Officer, Sound Advisory Services
	The Physician Advisor Role in Clinical Documentation Integrity Erica Remer, MD, CCDS, ACPA-C President, Erica Remer, MD, Inc
	Medicare Severity DRGs Ahmed Abuabdou, MBBS, MBA, ACPA-C Chief Clinical Officer, University of Arkansas Medical Center
	Peer-to-Peers and Denials Clarissa Barnes, MD, FACP, ACPA-C Hospitalist, Avera McKennan, Avera Health
	Medicare Notifications Alvin Gore, MD Physician Advisor, Providence Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital
	Chairing the Utilization Management Committee Ben Kartchner, MD, ACPA-C Associate Chief Medical Officer and Physician Advisor, Brundage Group
	Physician Advisors and Pediatrics Denise Goodman, MD, MS, FCCM Attending Physician, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago