Cassi Birnbaum MS, RHIA, CPHQ, FAHIMA

Ms. Birnbaum provides enterprise-wide leadership and strategic direction for all activities related to HIM, coding, clinical documentation, charge capture, risk adjustment, and revenue integrity for the UC San Diego Healthcare system, which provides outstanding care and breakthroughs in medical research as one of “America’s Best Hospitals”. She is also a faculty member for both UCSD Extension and San Diego Mesa College Health Information Management academic programs. She is an officer of SDHC Board (San Diego Connect – Regional Health Information Exchange), a position she has held since 2010. As a Past Board Chair/President of AHIMA (2014 – 2016), Cassi was able to successfully lead the industry, profession and its members to realizing its vision with a successful transition to ICD-10, Information Governance, and adoption of its Global Curriculum. Cassi was previously an AHIMA Director from 2009 – 2012. Cassi was honored to receive the 2019 AHIMA Distinguished Member Award, the 2017 Distinguished Health Professions Alumna recipient for the University of Kansas Medical Center, and she received 3M Healthcare’s, 2018 Innovator of the Year for accomplishments associated with Professional Fee and Single Path Coding. Cassi was the Past President for California Health Information Association from 2006 -2008, and received its prestigious Distinguished Member Award in 2009. She was the Senior Vice President of HIM and Consulting for Peak Health Solutions from 2011 - 2015, the Director of Health Information, CDI and Chief Privacy Officer for Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego for fifteen years, and the Director of Quality Resource Management at Scripps Health.

“Enterprise Director of HIM and Coding, University of California San Diego Health”