Principal Diagnosis Selection: Ensure MS-DRG Accuracy and Avoid Compliance Risk
Product Description:
LIVE AUDIO CONFERENCE
Sponsored by Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies
Monday, March 29, 2010
1:00-2:30 p.m. (Eastern)
12:00-1:30 p.m. (Central)
11:00-12:30 p.m. (Mountain)
10:00-11:30 a.m. (Pacific)
When you have a patient with interrelated or co-equal conditions, determining the principal diagnosis is crucial. This is just one example of the scenarios that will be discussed during this 90-minute live audio conference, led by William E. Haik, M.D., a former member of AHA’s editorial advisory board and expert advisory panel of Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM. He and co-presenter Jennifer Avery will explain principal diagnosis selection guidelines and how they apply in difficult clinical situations.
Please Note: This is an intermediate to advanced-level program.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of this audio conference, you will be able to:
- Formulate clinically succinct queries
- Apply coding rules appropriately for selection of the principal diagnosis
- Explain when it is appropriate to report a manifestation as a principal diagnosis
- Sequence correctly interrelated and co-equal conditions
AGENDA
- Sequencing of interrelated and co-equal conditions
- Specificity of diagnosis reporting
- Signs or symptoms
- Uncertain diagnoses
- Acute manifestation superimposed on a chronic underlying disease
- Reporting manifestations as principal diagnoses
- Trend toward reporting underlying chronic conditions as principal
- Two or more contrasting/comparative conditions
- Surgical procedure delineates the MS-DRG
- Therapeutic v. diagnostic procedures
- Surgical hierarchy
- Surgical condition as principal diagnosis
- Neoplasm coding
- Primary/secondary malignancy v. chemotherapy/radiation therapy
- Treatment directed at the metastatic site only
- Signs and symptoms
- Complications
- Poisonings and adverse reactions
- Cancelled or additional treatment
- Admission after outpatient surgery
- Clinical examples of rules application
A live question and answer session follows the presentation.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Jennifer Avery, CCS, CPC-H, CPC, CPC-I, is a senior regulatory specialist with HCPro, Inc. and serves as a lead instructor for the company's Certified Coder Boot Camp® and the Certified Coder Boot Camp®-- Inpatient Version.
William E. Haik, M.D., practices medicine in Fort Walton Beach, FL, and is certified in internal, pulmonary, and critical care medicine. He is also the director of DRG Review, Inc., a physician-directed hospital coding consulting service.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Inpatient coders, clinical documentation specialists/professionals, HIM managers and directors, DRG advisors/physician advisors, compliance professionals, audit professionals
MATERIALS
Program materials are provided with PDF links.
AUDIO ON-DEMAND
In addition to the regular participation options for HCPro audio conferences—live, CD, or combination packages—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.
DIAL IN TOLL FREE!
Details on how to call will be sent to you via e-mail with your materials package.
CAN'T LISTEN LIVE?
No problem. 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.
PLEASE NOTE
- Participation in the call is just $259 per site and allows access to ONE phone line for an unlimited number of people to listen. All materials must be retrieved from the Internet. Live orders are assessed a $5 processing fee. CD and combo orders are charged $18 for shipping and handling.
- Audio conference materials will be delivered via e-mail four days prior to the conference and again on the day before the conference.
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