Demystify the ICD-9 coding guidelines.
Medicare coverage guidelines require home health agencies (HHA) to use ICD-9 coding on claims in order to prove the medical necessity of services. But, as every coder knows, even if you follow the ICD-9 coding manual, the guidelines are not always clear.
ICD-9 Coding for Home Health: A Comprehensive Coder’s Guide gives HHA staff the soup-to-nuts on ICD-9 coding.
Make ICD-9 coding more accurate and improve your agency’s financial health.
Recent changes to the Medicare home health prospective payment system (HH PPS) are estimated to bring twice as many payment levels to home health in 2008. This convenient book and CD-ROM set helps you increase the accuracy of ICD-9 coding and make a positive contribution to your organization’s bottom line. Plus it includes all the changes to ICD-9 coding due to the 2008 HH PPS Final rule.
Meet the unique challenge of home health coding.
ICD-9 coding is complex and ever-changing—not to mention the difficult coding scenarios coders encounter that are specific to home health. This guide teaches OASIS coordinators, billers, and coders alike how to navigate the coding manuals and code successfully for a minimum number of denials.
ICD-9 Coding for Home Health helps you understand:
- How to use ICD-9 coding manuals
- The tricks specific to home health coding
- Coding ins and outs by each diagnostic area
- HCPCS, V-codes, and e-codes
- Home health prospective payment system changes for 2008
Learn to keep it simple.
This concise 150-page guide addresses the most common coding scenarios in home health, by diagnostic area, in order to simplify the process. The tools and information in this set can help HHAs obtain proper reimbursement and avoid claims denials by CMS.
Get the answers you need to do the job right.
It goes without saying that coding is tricky. Individual codes change every year. Both veteran and new coders can benefit from the essential resources in this book and CD-ROM set. Whether you are training from scratch or seeking to refresh your knowledge, this primer provides the tools you need to make ICD-9 coding faster, simpler, and more accurate.
ICD-9 Coding for Home Health provides:
- Primary and other diagnoses coding instructions
- Coding as it relates to the OASIS
- Practice coding rounds at the end of each chapter in Section III
- Customizable tools on CD-ROM
- A final ICD-9 coding exam of 100 questions to help reinforce what you’ve learned
Who will benefit?
HHA administrators, billing office managers, VPs of patient accounting, medical records managers, billers, medical records clerks, OASIS coordinators
About the author
Joan L. Usher, BS, RHIA, CoS-C, ACE, is a nationally recognized expert in the field of health information management. With a degree in health record administration, Usher has been consulting for over 18 years. She is past president of Massachusetts Health information Management association, which received three national awards under her leadership. Usher has taught ICD-9 coding for over 11 years and educated over 5,000 people in 11 states.
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