FY2012 IPPS MS-DRG Update: Analyze and Understand the Impact
Product Description:
AUDIO CONFERENCE ON CD OR ON-DEMAND
Sponsored by: JustCoding
Presented on December 9, 2011
During the transition to ICD-10, it is critical to keep up with the 2012 MS-DRG reclassifications and MS-DRG changes because it will affect payment. During this 90-minute audio conference, our expert speakers discuss CC and MCC list modifications, excisional debridement reclassification and the quality focus involving readmissions. They also explain changes to top relative weights, top 10 US Volume DRGs, and strategies for documentation and coding adjustments. Also, included is the PACT changes for FY2012.
At the end of the program you will be able to:
- Explain the MS-DRG reclassifications and MS-DRG changes for FY2012
- Identify relative weight changes and LOS changes for MS-DRGs for FY2012
- Demonstrate knowledge of HACs and readmissions
- Describe post-acute care transfer rule update for FY2012
- Assess post-acute care transfer updates for FY2012
Agenda
- Changes to the CC and MCC lists
- Excisional debridement reclassification
- Expansion of autologous bone marrow transplant
- Payment improvements
- Sleeve gastrectomy
- Title changes for DRGs 640 – 642
- Readmissions
- Post-operative aspiration pneumonia and the dangers of respiratory insufficiency after trauma or surgery
- Post-acute care transfer rule
- New technology payment for AutoLITT
- Cautionary notes
- Top relative weight changes
- Top 10 US Volume DRGs
- Documentation and coding adjustment strategies
A question and answer session follows the presentation.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
AAPC: This program has prior approval of AAPC for 1.5 Continuing Education Units. Granting of this approval in no way constitutes endorsement by AAPC of the program, content or the program sponsor.
AHIMA: This program has been approved for 1.0 continuing education unit for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).
CCDS: This program has been approved for 1.5 continuing education units towards fulfilling the requirements of the Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS) certification, offered as a service of the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS).
Please note the expiration date of this audio is 12/9/12.
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, HIM operations for 21 acute care hospitals. She is a member of the editorial advisory board for Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies, an advisory board member for the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS), 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.
AUDIO ON-DEMAND
Purchase a CD or an audio on-demand of the audio conference 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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