Kathy Harkness

Kathy Harkness is a graduate of Walden University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She has over 30 years of professional experience in critical care, emergency medicine, cardiac surgery and nursing management, as well as CDI and revenue integrity.

As a CDI technology subject-matter expert, she provides Solventum customers with operational insights around Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs), CDI workflow and query management. Before joining Solventum as a CDI client engagement executive, she was a clinical director with The Advisory Board Company’s Revenue Cycle Solutions Consulting and Management division. In this capacity, Kathy provided clinical documentation improvement expertise to the physician documentation data analysis process and led over 200 one-on-one physician engagement meetings. She served as a subject-matter expert for CDI assessments, education and implementation of new CDI programs across the country.