AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE, CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE
Sponsored by Briefings on APCs
presented on June 27, 2007
Take a look at what a few of your colleagues said about our March 2006 wound care audioconference…
“Very informative . . . definitely worth the time and money”
“Excellent presentation, very informative”
Back by popular demand . . .
HCPro’s annual Hospital Outpatient Wound Care Coding audioconference!
To reduce denied claims and avoid scrutiny by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and other watchdog organizations, you must follow strict guidelines for coding debridement and using active wound care management codes, as well as negative pressure wound therapy, ICD-9-CM diagnosis coding, and more.
During this program, our expert speakers will help you reduce denials with step-by-step strategies and tips, and provide advice to improve coding accuracy and compliance.
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Covering the hottest issues in wound care coding—from the OIG Work Plan and debridement to ICD-9-CM and modifier –25 coding—this program will help you and your staff:
- Illustrate how to organize operations and review the changes of coding coverage and payment on an annual basis
- Explain issues that the OIG is looking at in wound care coding/compliance and how they are translating into denied claims and new, stricter LCDs
- Utilize the correct debridement codes, including surgical codes and selective and non-selective debridement codes
- Indicate the correct use of E/M codes when performed in addition to a procedure
- Develop a proper E/M leveling tool for your clinic/facility
NEW PARTICIPATION OPTION
In addition to the regular purchase options for HCPro audioconferences—audio tape or audio CD, we are pleased to offer a new option, an audio archive. Audio archive allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player.
PROGRAM AGENDA
- Wound care business operations
- CPT® Common Procedural Terminology
- HCPCS Health Care Procedure Coding System
- ICD-9-CM International Classification of Diseases
- Charge description master
- Local coverage determinations
- Hot issues in wound care coding
- OIG Work Plan
- Debridement
- Documentation
- Medical necessity/ICD-9-CM coding
- Billing for non-physician providers
- Negative pressure wound therapy, Unna Boots
- Case studies
- OPPS E/M coding guidance
- Mapping your E/M leveling system to five levels of service
- When to code an E/M level in addition to a service (e.g., debridement) and use of modifier -25
- Coding, coverage, and payment for skin replacement and skin substitutes
- Developing a mapping system for skin substitutes
- Reporting correct “units”
- Question and answer session
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Gloryanne Bryant, BS, RHIA, CCS, is the corporate director of coding HIM compliance for Catholic Healthcare West in San Francisco, where she is responsible for coding and documentation compliance of 40 acute care facilities and a variety of other non-hospital based entities. She is a member of the editorial advisory board for HCPro's newsletter, Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies.
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS is the president of her own consulting company, Kathleen D. Schaum & Associates, Inc. She consults with numerous new and established hospital-owned outpatient wound care departments, physicians, podiatrists, nurse practitioners, wound care nurses, and physical therapists regarding the “business side of wound management.” She is a regular author of the column Payment Strategies in Advances in Skin & Wound Care. Kathleen is also the reimbursement director for devices, facilities, and procedures for Healthpoint, LTD.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
HIM directors, managers, and coders; billing directors, managers, and staff; hospital-owned outpatient wound care program and unit directors, managers, and staff; compliance officers
YOUR MATERIALS PACKET
You'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and take-home items including:
- An E/M coding template
- Crosswalk for skin substitute procedures and products
- Billable services tool
- Sample wound care article from the HCPro, Inc. newsletter Briefings on APCs
Purchase a tape, CD, or audio archive 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.
Save money when you purchase multiple copies! Ask your customer service representative about money-saving
discounts and bulk orders. Call toll free 800-650-6787 or e-mail
customerservice@hcpro.com.
