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AUDIOCONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE

Sponsored by Briefings on APCs

presented on February 19, 2008

A new program on an HIM hot topic. . .

HCPro’s Hospital Outpatient Wound Care Coding audioconference!

Outpatient wound care is a hot topic around the country for coding, billing, and compliance professionals—and with good reason. It remains a target of official Office of Inspector General (OIG) audits, and coding and billing staff continue to struggle with debridement CPT coding and billing, reporting services for non-physician practitioners and certified wound care nurses, meeting medical necessity requirements, and more.

During this 90-minute audioconference, our expert speakers help you reduce denials with step-by-step strategies and tips, and provide advice to improve documentation, coding accuracy and compliance.

Covering the most critical and talked about issues in wound care coding—from the OIG Work Plan and debridement to ICD-9-CM medical necessity requirements—this program helps you and your staff:

• Explain latest CMS updates affecting wound care in 2008, including extensive packaging changes
• 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
• Demonstrate compliance when billing for physicians vs. non-physician practitioners, physician assistants, certified wound care nurses, and RNs

Take a look at what your colleagues said about our June 2007 wound care audioconference…

“This [program] was the best one I have had the opportunity to listen to and there have been several in the last year.”

"This was a great audioconference. The speakers were very knowledgeable on the subject.”

“Excellent. We got a lot of good information from [the program].”

TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA

• Critical 2008 updates
• OPPS packaging
• CPT updates
• Reimbursement changes
• Review of OIG audits
• Debridement documentation and coding
• What the hospital can bill when physicians/non-physicians perform debridement and other services
• Use of selective vs. non-selective codes
• Negative pressure wound therapy
• Unna Boots
• Billing/payment for multiple practitioners
• Physicians vs. non-physicians and use of debridement codes
• Changing physician payment for skin substitutes
• Medical necessity
• Ensuring coverage requirements are met
• Addressing shortfalls in physician documentation
• Case examples

A question and answer sessions follows the presentation. 

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Gloryanne Bryant, BS, RHIA, CCS, is the corporate senior director of coding HIM compliance for Catholic Healthcare West in San Francisco, where she is responsible for coding and documentation compliance of 42 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.   

EARN CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

AAPC

This program has prior approval of the American Academy of Professional Coders for 1.5 Continuing Education Units. Granting of this approval in no way constitutes endorsement by the Academy of the program, content or the program sponsor.

AHIMA

This program has been approved for 2 continuing education units for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

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

BONUS TOOLS INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIALS PACKET

In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and “take-home” items including:

• Links to two reports that the Office of Inspector General issued regarding wound care
• Crosswalk for skin substitute procedures and products
• Sample wound care article from the HCPro, Inc. newsletter Briefings on APCs

These materials are provided with PDF links.

Purchase a 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.

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