AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD
Sponsored by Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies
presented on May 31, 2007
Ensure compliance while obtaining the reimbursement your facility deserves
Listen to this 90-minute audioconference where our experts cover ongoing problems with the inpatient psychiatric facility prospective payment system (IPF PPS) such as the "code-first" standard, which requires IPFs to code underlying conditions first, even if they are not psychiatric diagnoses.
Learn strategies that will help your IFP handle interrupted stays, encoder issues, and communication with physicians.
This program will help listeners improve the documentation environment in their facilities. Participants will discover what challenging rules/situations (e.g., code first rule, interrupted stays) to watch for, and learn how to implement the changes in the 2008 IPF PPS update.
AGENDA
- Physician documentation
- Medical comorbidities beyond psych diagnosis
- Payment adjustment factors
- State/local coverage criteria; medical necessity
- “Code first” standard
- Payer-specific challenges
- Physician/coder communication
- Query process
- Interrupted stays
- Continuous effects
- Scenarios
- Other coding/billing issues
- Payment adjustment factors
- Major changes in 2008 IPF PPS update
- Q & A
At the end of this audioconference you will be able to:
- Identify documentation issues to educate staff
potential coding issues that affect reimbursement- Explain the major changes in the 2008 IPF PPS update
- Illustrate the state FI LCD for admission criteria
BONUS MATERIALS INCLUDED IN YOUR PACKET!
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive
- Tables of IPF-PPS DRGs
- Comorbidity categories
- Code first list
These materials are provided with PDF links.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Paula Archer, RHIA, is a managing consultant with BKD, LLP in Little Rock, Arkansas. Formerly with Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, Paula has more than 20 years of health information management experience including coding and reviewing ICD-9-CM, HCPCS and CPT-4. She was a DRG audit coordinator for eight years in which she acquired experience and knowledge in chart documentation and claims reviews and the inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems. She also has knowledge of insurance claims procedures and processes involving both Medicare and private insurance.
Wendy Wiley, RHIA, CCS, is a supervising consultant in Little Rock, Arkansas. As a member of BKD Health Care Group, Wendy has 17 years of coding and health information management experience. She provides reimbursement consulting services for hospitals and physician clinics. She specializes in the areas of ICD-9-CM and CPT-4 coding reviews, inpatient DRG validation reviews, IRF-PPS reviews, IPF-PPS reviews, outpatient APC analyses, physician professional component coding reviews and medical record documentation reviews.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Coders, billers, managers, and directors; patient financial services and finance staff, business office directors, HIM directors, psych unit directors, psychiatric case managers and clinical staff responsible for documentation and coding, psychiatry MDs, CFOs, and compliance staff.
Purchase a tape or CD of the program and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.
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