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Hospitalists: Ins and Outs of Documenting, Coding & Getting Paid
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SUMMARY
Most facilities are using hospitalists these days and they do make life easier for the staff physicians. But now you have to understand that getting paid for services performed by hospitalists goes way beyond normal inpatient and outpatient coding. Join us for a 60-webinar where you, your hospitalists and your coding and billing staff will discover:
- The difference between co-managed & split/shared services
- Coding for observation & critical care with hospitalists
- Hospitalists' role in transfers & discharges
- Correct coding and documentation of prolonged services
- When to bill for Hospitalists' interpretation of diagnostic tests
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
After this 60-minute webinar, you will discover the keys to coding and getting reimbursed for routine hospitalist services - as well as keys to coding problem areas and complicated scenarios associated with having hospitalists in the facility.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Documentation Needed for Hospitalist Coding
- Observation v. short stay - documenting for multiple physician services
- Procedure and E/M service on the same day - can you bill both?
- Prolonged services and how documentation impacts billing
- Tricky Coding Scenarios Involving Hospitalists
- Admits, transfers and discharges by different physicians - now what?
- How to code when multiple physicians see the same patient the same day
- Ways to tell if the service is transfer of care or co-management
- Wrapping it All Up to Ensure Reimbursement
- Follow-up visit uncovers a new problem - here's help
- Interpretation of diagnostic tests - Are you coding these correctly?
- Who bills for what in co-management agreements?
- Live Question and Answer Session - Have your specific real-world hospitalist coding questions addressed!
- Documentation Needed for Hospitalist Coding
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SPEAKER
Caral Edelberg, CPC, CPMA, CAC, CCS-P, CHC, is president of Edelberg Compliance Associates in Baton Rouge, Louisiana consults in the specialties of emergency medicine (professional and facility), hospital/critical care medicine (hospitalist), EMS/ambulance and urgent care. Caral has certifications in coding, auditing and compliance.
- Caral currently develops training, auditing and monitoring tools while providing compliance audits used to identify coding and billing problems for emergency and hospitalist medicine.
- She is an active member of many professional organizations and has served on the National Advisory Board for the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC); is currently President of the Baton Rouge chapter of the AAPC and long-term member of the Coding and Nomenclature Advisory Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
- Caral is a frequent author and speaker on healthcare management topics including outpatient facility coding and billing, hospitalist medicine, medical record documentation policies, healthcare compliance, effective communication within healthcare systems, specialized coding compliance training for physicians and residents, COBRA/EMTALA and CPT/ICD-9 coding and billing.
- She co-authored the Emergency Medicine Study Guide and Emergency Medicine Specialty Examination for the Advanced Board of Medical Coding (ABMC); authored the Emergency Medicine Study Guide and Emergency Medicine Competency Examination published for Ingenix/AAPC; and co-authored the current Emergency Medicine Study Guide and Competency Examination for the AAPC.
- Caral is the past consulting editor and currently serves on the editorial advisory committee of ED (Emergency Department) Coding Alert. She serves on the editorial advisory boards of ED Management (for whom she publishes a quarterly ED coding column), OPPS Insider, and APC Advisor.
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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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