ICD-10 Implementation: Strategies and Timelines for Readiness
Product Description:
AUDIO CONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ON-DEMAND
Sponsored by ICD-10 Watch
presented on February 25, 2010
Implementing ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS will require an organization-wide, multi-year, strategy. Make sure you have addressed critical steps in the timeline up to this point, and identify the steps you need to take in 2010 and future years. This audio conference helps you understand the scope of this transition, gauge your organization’s current state of readiness, and recognize what tasks should be first on your list for the coming year to ensure your organization doesn’t fall behind.
Note: Participants in the program should have a basic understanding of how their organization uses diagnosis and inpatient hospital procedure codes, the ICD-9-CM code set, and the ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS code sets.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the conclusion of this audio conference, you will be able to:
- Determine where you and your organization need to be at different stages of implementation
- Determine what you need to execute over the next six to 12 months
- Implement tools to jumpstart your organization’s implementation progress
- Determine the HIM Director’s role in ICD-10 implementation
- Explain strategies for coordination of ICD-10 implementation across departments
- Identify key issues that may have been overlooked during initial gap analyses
AGENDA
- Snapshot of where we are in the timeline
- National readiness survey results
- Strategies for executing the current stage in your readiness
- Determine the effects of ICD-10 organization-wide
- Assess education needs
- Budget for preparation and implementation
- Identify key issues to address during initial assessments and planning
- Contact vendors and get commitments for product delivery
- The role of HIM Directors and coding professional in preparation and readiness
- Within the HIM/coding department
- Coordinating across departments
- Action plan for the next six to 12 months
- Q&A
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Gloryanne Bryant, BA, RHIA, RHIT, CCS, CCDS, is the regional managing director HIM for Northern California Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA, and is responsible for coding, education, CDI and HIM operations for 21 acute care hospitals. She is a member of the editorial advisory board for Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies, and has more than 30 years of experience in the HIM profession providing education to coders, physicians, and other hospital staff on IPPS, DRGs, HCCs, APCs, ICD-9-CM and CPT coding.
Stanley Nachimson, is the principal of Nachimson Advisors in Reisterstown, MD, director of the North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance (NCHICA) / Workgroup for Electronic Data Exchange (WEDI) timeline project, and author of a paper on ICD-10 implementation steps. He is a co-chair of several WEDI working groups for ICD-10 implementation.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
HIM managers and directors, Coders and billers, Coding and billing managers/supervisors, Finance managers, Revenue cycle managers, Clinical documentation specialists, ICD-10 project managers, Medical staff leaders, Physicians, C-Suite
PROGRAM MATERIALS
Program materials are provided with PDF links.
AUDIO ON-DEMAND
In addition to the regular purchase options for HCPro audio conferences, we are pleased to offer another option, audio on-demand. Audio on-demand allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player. Purchase a CD or audio on-demand 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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