Full Name
Joey Cristiano
Credentials
MD, FACP, CCDS, CHCQM-PHYADV
Company
Advocate Health
Job Title
Medical Director for Mid-Revenue Cycle Clinician Services
Speaker Bio
Joey Cristiano is an academic internist focusing on perioperative medicine and hospital medicine in practice at Atrium Wake Forest Baptist since 2010. He received his medical degree from the University of South Carolina and completed residency training at the Wake Forest School of Medicine.
In addition to his clinical practice, he is very active in undergraduate and graduate medical education. He has served as fourth-year elective course director and the electronic health record and virtual care (EHR-VC) longitudinal thread director at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. He has also taught in numerous additional medical school courses. He also participates in residency education in the Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Family Medicine programs at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. Lastly, he conducts educational research to create new curriculum to prepare medical students and resident physicians in the EHR, telehealth, and clinical documentation.
Dr. Cristiano is also a physician advisor for the Atrium Health Wake Forest region of the health system enterprise, Advocate Atrium Health. He holds certifications as a Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS) and the American Board of Quality and Utilization Review Physicians (CHCQM-PHYADV). Most recently, he has completed the HFMA Business of Healthcare certification.
He has created the physician advising program focusing on Clinical Documentation Excellence at the Atrium Health Wake Forest. This program emphasizes multi-disciplinary collaboration with critical stakeholders, including executive and CMO leadership, hospital information management, clinical documentation improvement, coding, and quality. These initiatives and collaborations enhance accurate, complete, and specific clinical documentation to facilitate the most appropriate ICD-10 CM/PCS and DRG code assignments. Accuracy in code assignment equates to the best approximation of hospital resources required to treat our patient population and ensure accuracy in claims-based quality reporting.
Most recently, Dr. Cristiano has taken on a new role focused on the intersection of clinicians with revenue cycle for translating clinical documentation into administrative codes. He envisions creating stronger relationships, reducing silos, and partnering in reducing the burden on clinicians while also enhancing accurate and complete ICD, CPT, and DRG code assignment across Advocate Health.
In addition to his clinical practice, he is very active in undergraduate and graduate medical education. He has served as fourth-year elective course director and the electronic health record and virtual care (EHR-VC) longitudinal thread director at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. He has also taught in numerous additional medical school courses. He also participates in residency education in the Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Family Medicine programs at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. Lastly, he conducts educational research to create new curriculum to prepare medical students and resident physicians in the EHR, telehealth, and clinical documentation.
Dr. Cristiano is also a physician advisor for the Atrium Health Wake Forest region of the health system enterprise, Advocate Atrium Health. He holds certifications as a Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS) and the American Board of Quality and Utilization Review Physicians (CHCQM-PHYADV). Most recently, he has completed the HFMA Business of Healthcare certification.
He has created the physician advising program focusing on Clinical Documentation Excellence at the Atrium Health Wake Forest. This program emphasizes multi-disciplinary collaboration with critical stakeholders, including executive and CMO leadership, hospital information management, clinical documentation improvement, coding, and quality. These initiatives and collaborations enhance accurate, complete, and specific clinical documentation to facilitate the most appropriate ICD-10 CM/PCS and DRG code assignments. Accuracy in code assignment equates to the best approximation of hospital resources required to treat our patient population and ensure accuracy in claims-based quality reporting.
Most recently, Dr. Cristiano has taken on a new role focused on the intersection of clinicians with revenue cycle for translating clinical documentation into administrative codes. He envisions creating stronger relationships, reducing silos, and partnering in reducing the burden on clinicians while also enhancing accurate and complete ICD, CPT, and DRG code assignment across Advocate Health.
