Inpatient Wound Debridement and RACs
Product Description:
AUDIO CONFERENCE ON CD OR ON-DEMAND
Sponsored by Certified Coder Boot Camp® Inpatient Version
presented on August 5, 2010
Inpatient wound care coding has been a RAC focus since the demonstration project, yielding nearly $18 million in overpayments for two DRGs (263 and 217). Now that RACs are targeting this area at hospitals nationwide, there are bound to be more takebacks.
During this 90-minute audio conference, our experts discuss coding guidelines for inpatient wound care procedures. They give you guidance on conducting your own audits so you can stay ahead of the RACs.
At the end of the program, you will be able to:
- Identify documentation elements necessary to support excisional debridement
- Assign proper debridement codes based on ICD-9-CM coding guidelines
- Educate medical staff/wound care team on proper documentation for inpatient wound care
- Correct mistakes in debridement coding to minimize revenue loss
TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA
- Inpatient RAC wound debridement target
- Demonstration project findings
- Current RAC audit issues
- Appropriate DRG assignment
- Diagnostic implications of wounds
- Procedural options for dealing with wounds
- Documentation elements to support excisional debridement
- Mistakes and misconceptions
- Correct interpretation of physician documentation
- Coding excisional debridement
- AHA Coding Clinic guidance
- ICD-9-CM guidelines
- Real-life case examples
- Dictated report
- Coder’s analysis
- Best practices
- Education
- Documentation improvement
- Auditing strategies
A question and answer session follows the presentation.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Gloryanne Bryant, BS, RHIA, RHIT, CCS, CCDS, is the regional managing director of HIM (Revenue Cycle N. California) for 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, ICD-9-CM , CPT coding and clinical documentation improvement.
Robert S. Gold, MD, is founder and CEO of DCBA, Inc., in Atlanta, GA, a consulting firm that provides physician-to-physician education programs in clinical documentation improvement, which includes the training of CDI specialists to perform concurrent review and of HIM professionals to understand the clinical aspects of diseases and procedures to which they assign codes. Dr. Gold writes Clinically Speaking for Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies and Minute for the Medical Staff for Medical Records Briefing.
YOUR MATERIALS PACKET
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audio conference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and tools, as well as the following:
- Coding tip sheet for inpatient coding of excisional debridement
- Guide to reading physician operative note
These materials are provided with PDF links.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
HIM directors and managers, coders and coding managers, auditors and compliance officers.
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.
PROGRAM MATERIALS
Program materials are provided with PDF links.
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