Critical Documentation Updates for Hospitalists
Position Your Practice to Maximize Value
Product Description:
WEBCAST ON CD
In partnership with The Society of Hospital Medicine
presented on October 30, 2008
Demonstrating a return on investment (ROI) for your hospitalist program is about more than just the financial return. In today’s environment, the most important opportunities to deliver value lie in your ability to help your institution meet its quality, safety, and compliance goals.
Discover the newest hospitalist documentation best practices to deliver more value to your hospital.
Listen to HCPro and SHM for Critical Documentation Updates for Hospitalists: Position Your Practice to Maximize Value. During this program, you will learn about the massive changes of Medicare’s MS-DRG system to hospitals—new non-payment policies for “never events” and the forthcoming recovery audit contractors (RACs).
This 90-minute Webcast, available recorded on CD, will provide hospitalists with tools and strategies to:
- Gain a better understanding of the hospital reimbursement and compliance implications of hospitalists’ clinical documentation
- Demonstrate the value (ROI) of your hospitalist program to your institution
- Recognize recent changes in Medicare documentation rules for implementing the MS-DRG system
- Proactively prepare for and maintain compliance for RACs
- Document ways that capture the true severity of illness and quality of care
- Appropriately document the implementation of “never event” payment policies, including present-on-admission (POA) requirements
Failing to anticipate the documentation requirements of Medicare and other third-party payors can lead to lower reimbursement. Even worse, it can place both the institution and the hospitalists themselves at risk.
Hospitalists must be advocates for proper documentation even if their program relies on concurrent coders or other hospital staff to identify documentation deficiencies. Few areas of hospitalist responsibility are so crucial to the hospitalist value proposition—and few are changing so rapidly.
Take a look at the agenda
- Clinical documentation implications of the new MS-DRG system on hospitalist documentation
- Documentation tips for capturing the true severity of illness and communicating the quality of care being provided
- “Never events”: documenting POA and hospital-acquired complications
- Proactive preparation for RACs
- Q&A
Please note: Webcast purchasers should already have a basic understanding of physician documentation.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of this Webcast, participants will be able to:
- Explain the importance of diagnosis documentation at admission
- Compare the differences between implicit and explicit documentation for MS-DRGs
- Explain how clinical documentation improvement can enhance the capture of quality and value-based care
- Demonstrate how appropriate documentation can communicate the severity of illness and justify the utilization of services to third-party payers
- Utilize documentation tips in preparation for RACs
BONUS TOOLS
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this Webcast, you will receive a documentation tips handout to help you keep up with the changes and deliver more value to your hospital.
You'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials. These materials are provided with PDF links.
MEET THE SPEAKER
Betty Brown Bibbins, MD, FACOG, CHC, C-CDI, CPEHR, CPHIT, is the president, chief medical officer, and lead educational consultant at DocuComp, LLC, a healthcare documentation and compliance consulting firm. Bibbins works with hospitals to ensure accurate, concurrent, and retrospective medical records with an organizational focus on ICD-9-CM coding reviews and DRG coding. She is also a physician consultant for clinical documentation improvement at Precyse Solutions, LLC in Wayne, PA, where she provides physician-to-physician, specialty-specific education, including hospitalist, internal medicine, surgery, and family practice. Bibbins is a contributor for JustCoding.com, a healthcare coding-specific Web site from HCPro, Inc.
WHO WILL BENEFIT?
Hospitalists, hospitalist program directions, administrators, medical staff leaders, department chairs, physicians
Purchase a CD of the program and view it when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher course for veteran staff.
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