AUDIOCONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE
Sponsored by The PFS Director’s Handbook
presented on January 9, 2008
Are you truly prepared for the new world of MS-DRGs?
Can you afford to lose money on 50% of your pneumonia cases? Are you aware of the subtleties that exist with length of stay, and that different tenets apply with fee-for-service Medicare patients? Changes are on the horizon for the way MS-DRGs are handled and you need to be aware of how these modifications will impact your bottom line. Implementation of the reimbursement system affects several departments in your facility, and preparation is imperative to ensure you do not have any obstacles which will prevent prompt, accurate payment.
Listen to this 90-minute audioconference “MS-DRGs in 2008: Assess the financial impact and operationalize the rule.” Hospital operations experts Sonya Stephens, RHIT,CCS and Linda Whaley RN, CPC, CPC-H discuss methods for your facility to economically and efficiently implement the MS-DRG changes for 2008 and focus on the financial ramifications of the transition. You’ll learn specifics of the new rules, such as how adjustments to length of stay procedures may impact your through-put process, as well as the implications of coding and documentation on MS-DRG reimbursements.
At the end of this audioconference, you will be able to:
- Understand the true impact of the new payment system
- Recognize the action steps you need to implement the correct MS-DRG procedures
- Measure and assess your facility’s implementation plans
- Implement a clinical documentation plan
- Identify an integrated approach to gather an MS-DRG implementation team
AGENDA
- Setting the scene: Where we are now
- Assessing the true financial picture under MS-DRG program: What has changed
- Present on admission (POA) documentation
- High-volume DRGs
- Poor documentation
- Payer contracting
- Relative weights v. length-of-stay
- Historical data and new trends
- Staffing re-allotments
- Outlier cases
- What to operationalize now
- Auditing needs
- Training needs
- Expectations of coder productivity
- Cost reporting
- Length of stay
- Patient throughput
- What to expect in the future
- Transition period
- Assessing your window of opportunity
- Q&A
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Sonya Stephens, RHIT, CCS, brings to Sinaiko over 7 years of progressive hospital experience in Health Information Management (HIM). Most recently she served as a Corporate Compliance Auditor, Clinical Documentation and Education Specialist and the Interim Corporate HIM Director at LifeCare Management Services in Plano, Texas. Her responsibilities included assisting with the implementation, training and monitoring of the UHDDS coding compliance standards for long term acute care hospitals throughout the entire LifeCare Hospitals healthcare system.
Linda Whaley, RN, is a senior consultant for Sinaiko Health Care Consulting, Inc. focusing her skills on projects that include MS-DRG training, clinical documentation improvement and medical management data reporting. As vice president of operations for Missouri’s largest Medicaid Managed Care plan, she was responsible for the development and implementation of strategic plans for the preauthorization, case management, provider relations and appeals departments to ensure target performance measures were achieved.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
- Director of Patient Financial Services
- Director of patient access
- Patient accounts professionals
- Business office professionals
- Revenue cycle managers
- Reimbursement/revenue/billing professionals
- Compliance officers
- HIM/coding manager
- CFOs/VPS of finance
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