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Navigating Outpatient Procedural Coding Changes
Presented by Karen Scott, MEd, RHIA, CCS-, CPC, FAHIMA, TruCode Senior Training Specialist
December 6, 2018 at 2 pm ET
Changes to the ICD-10-CM coding system will soon be in effect—along with the potential challenges that new guidelines inevitably bring. In this webinar, we’ll review the areas where coding errors are most likely to occur, plus strategies that will help you avoid them.
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With the increased use of risk-adjusted models to determine reimbursement, it is critical that coders have a solid understanding of Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs). This webinar reviews the HCC categories and the role they play in risk-adjusted payment models. We discuss the impact of clinical documentation on coding and the resulting HCC assignment, and review best practices for assigning & sequencing or querying for appropriate diagnosis codes.
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Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) is well-established in the inpatient arena, and is now poised to extend into outpatient encounters. Understanding what needs to be done in the outpatient setting is a daunting task, as there are dozens of stakeholders who need improvements in documentation. This webinar provides an understanding of what’s in store as CDI is extended to outpatient areas, and how to ultimately measure its success.
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This webinar looks at resources and strategies that can help address the challenges of assigning procedure codes for outpatient and physician professional services utilizing CPT®.
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As payment models for healthcare providers continue to change, providers need to adapt their approach to coding quality to ensure revenue integrity in a value-based market. This webinar discusses evolving business models found in healthcare today and looks at the ways that coding quality initiatives impact compliance and revenue integrity.
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Diagnosis-related group (DRG) changes to the Medicare 2018 Inpatient Prospective Payment System have triggered adjustments to hospital services and reimbursement. In this webinar, we’ll review the annual DRG update, including ICD-10 code adjustments, and CMS MS-DRG version 35 logic and reimbursement changes.
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In today’s healthcare market, quality is under the microscope–in part because of its impact on value-based purchasing. In this webinar, you’ll learn documentation best practices to support quality measures, plus metrics to improve CDI programs.
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Are you struggling to keep up with the influx of code changes that have resulted from the FY 2017 lifting of the code freeze? In this webinar, we look at the major areas affected by these code and guideline changes, and offer solutions that can help inpatient coders become more proficient at assigning accurate PCS codes.
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The FY 2017 lifting of the code freeze has led to a number of new and revised codes—making it difficult to assign accurate codes in areas where these changes have occurred. This webinar provides a clear understanding of coding guideline changes and the common areas of coder errors. It will also review significant Coding Clinic references.
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