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HACs & Never Events: How POA Affects Coding & Billing Compliance
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SUMMARY
Coding, billing and reporting of Present on Admission (POA), Hospital Acquired Conditions (HACs) and never events is confusing and tricky. You need to understand the interaction between POA rules, HACs and never events to stay in compliance and get the reimbursement you deserve. Join us for a 60-webinar where you and your coding and billing staff will discover:
- POA indicator rules and what documentation is needed
- The difference between HACs, never events and adverse events
- How to tell if an HAC or never event has occurred
- Critical guidelines for coding, billing, reporting and getting paid
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
During this 60-minute webinar, you will discover the ins and outs of applying POA indicators as well as how to code, bill and report HACs and never events.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Essentials of Coding and Billing for HACs & Never Events
- HACs and when you should or shouldn't apply POA indicators
- MS-DRG assignment: How HACs affect reimbursement
- Keys to code, bill and report HACs - stay compliant, reduce liability
- Present on Admission in Plain English
- What are the ICD-9 guidelines for reporting POA
- Assigning the POA indicator - who, what, how and why?
- Time requirements - what documentation is needed?
- Understanding Key Terminology - Clear Up the Confusion
- HACs, never events and sentinel events - what makes them different?
- Why do CMS and the National Quality Forum both have never events?
- What is an adverse effect and is it reimbursable?
- Live Question and Answer Session – Have your specific real-world HAC, never event and POA indicator coding questions addressed!
- Essentials of Coding and Billing for HACs & Never Events
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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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