IRC Office Hours - CDC Wonder

Introduction to CDC Wonder

Join IRC leaders Erica Biesinger and Claudia Jennings for an introduction to this powerful free-to-use public health data portal maintained by the CDC.

During this session we'll explore how to use this tool which houses all birth certificate data. We'll review how to navigate the site and use the data in negotiations with payers. 

AABC membership is required for IRC Office Hours. Registration is free and open to all AABC members. 

IRC Leaders

Erica Biesinger, MBA

Erica has been involved in the birth center community since 2014 when she joined the staff at The Midwife Center in Pittsburgh as the Finance and Operations Manager.  Since then, she's provided ongoing administrative support to the birth center including overseeing all financial aspects of the Center and helping to expand  both the facility and programs offered.  She is passionate about the independent, free-standing birth center model and the midwifery model of care. Her goal is to have that shine through in her administrative work, while improving the ongoing financial health of the birth center.

Claudia Jennings

Claudia has worked with midwives at freestanding birth centers for 6 years and is proud to have held many operational roles, most recently as the administrative director of a birth center in MN. She provides behind the scenes support to ensure midwives can provide excellent clinical care and get paid appropriately for doing so! She is passionate about the value of the freestanding birth center model and how to demonstrate it, barriers to higher payment for birth centers and midwives, and ways to create operational and billing efficiency in the birth center model.