Sarah Hartley

Sarah Hartley is a health information management expert with more than 23 years of experience leading teams in various departments like HIM, Facility and Provider Coding, Inpatient and Ambulatory Clinical Documentation Integrity and provider coding education. Sarah also shares her expertise while teaching at a few different colleges as it relates to healthcare reimbursement, healthcare management, healthcare statistics and ethical/legal aspects of healthcare. 

One of the most exciting points of her career has been rebuilding an inpatient CDI team (bringing them from an outsourced function to fully in-house and was able to more than double the ROI and improve the overall CMI) and successfully creating multiple ambulatory CDI programs at three large healthcare organizations. In her role as HIM Director and Director of CDI (both Inpatient and Ambulatory), she has built successful relationships with providers and administrative professionals at all levels, obtain their buy-in and support and collaborate to make improvements. Currently she serves as System Director of Ambulatory Risk Adjustment and Clinical Documentation Integrity (aCDI) at Endeavor Health Physician Partners, based out of Chicago. Endeavor Health Physician Partners is a Clinically Integrated Network of ~500k lives, soon to be ~1m lives in 2025, with more than 2,600 providers and 9 hospitals. In this role Sarah ensures the success of their ambulatory risk adjustment program.