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2011 IPPS Update: What’s changing and what is the impact?
Audio Conference Recording Price: 199.00 (U.S. Dollars) -
SUMMARY
CMS released the 2011 IPPS rates - and hospitals and other healthcare facilities across the board are not happy. Join us for a 60-minute audio program where you will discover:
- What's new for inpatient services effective 10/1/10
- Medicare's plan to decrease payment $440 million - how that affects you
- MS-DRGs - The changes you really need to know
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
During this 60-minute audio conference discover what you need to know regarding IPPS reimbursement changes, relative weight changes that affect MS-DRGs and quality measures that were added.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- 2011 IPPS Rule: Rationale and Impact of MS-DRG Changes
- The key MS-DRG changes - What's the impact?
- Rationale behind the changes What is CMS's goal?
- Techniques for implementing the IPPS changes in your facility
- Changes for Acute & Long-term Care Facilities
- CMS' coding offset to recoup overpayments - salt in the wound?
- Market basket update - What the net adjustment does to reimbursement
- The three-day payment rule - will it help your facility?
- There's More to IPPS Changes than MS-DRGs
- Additional quality reporting measures you need to know
- What are the significant changes to CC exclusion, MCC & CC lists
- Summary of the revisions and changes to POA and HACs
- Live Question and Answer Session - Have your specific real-world 2011 IPPS coding questions addressed!
- 2011 IPPS Rule: Rationale and Impact of MS-DRG Changes
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SPEAKER
Christi Sarasin, CCS, CCDS, CPC-H, FCS Sarasin Consulting Group
- Ms. Sarasin has over 29 years of healthcare experience in medical records. As a healthcare consultant for the past 16 years, Christi has specialized in DRG Validations, Ambulatory Surgery and Emergency Department (facility component) Coding Reviews, Coding Educational Inservices, APC Payment Sampling Reviews and Interim Coding Supervisory Consulting.
- Prior to establishing Sarasin Consulting Group Ms. Sarasin worked as a healthcare consultant for three national healthcare consulting firms. As a healthcare consultant, she conducted CPT Assessments for Outpatient Surgery and Emergency Room Visits, DRG Validation Audits, Coding Educational Inservices, Inpatient and Outpatient Coding Compliance Reviews and APC Preparatory Consulting Engagements.
- Ms. Sarasin was the technical editor for St. Anthony Consulting Group's Outpatient Reference Manual, co-author for St. Anthony's APG Implementation Guide, technical editor for St. Anthony's APG Source Book, contributing editor to St. Anthony's Gearing Up for APGs (Overview and Impact of your Operations and Impact of your Clinical Operations) and technical editor for St. Anthony's HCPCS Alert Newsletter.
- With over 13 years of experience at a 350-bed acute care hospital, Ms. Sarasin's hands-on experience in the various operational processes in a medical records department has given her a broad perspective of the global health information workflow processes and how they impact coding.
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AAPC CREDITS
This program has prior approval by the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) for 1 continuing education hour. Granting of prior approval in no way constitutes endorsement by AAPC of the program content or the program sponsor. Additional information on obtaining your CEU will be included with your purchase.
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PROGRAM MATERIALS
The speaker's PowerPoint presentation slides are included with your audio recording purchase. All materials are accessible through the Internet and can be downloaded as a PDF file.
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PRICING
$199.00 for audio conference recording (CD or DVD) and program materials.
This is an outstanding program and therefore we offer purchasers a Money Back Guarantee. We are so confident that you will find the conference valuable that we offer a 100% money back guarantee from now until 30 days after the audio recording is shipped, making this a risk-free investment. If you should have any concerns, comments, or refund requests with this conference, please contact our customer service representatives at 800-964-6033. Audio recordings will be received approximately three weeks after the live conference.
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