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Coding For Home Health Services: Keys For Reimbursement
Audio Conference Recording Price: 199.00 -
SUMMARY
Explosive growth in home health care has caught the eye of the CMS and coding & billing is being scrutinized for proper usage. With over 30 PPS diagnostic categories and up to 6 diagnoses for each patient, you need an expert to help guide you and your team to the reimbursement your agency deserves. Join coding and OASIS specialist Joan L. Usher for a 60-minute audio conference where you, your clinicians and your PI, coding and billing staff will discover the keys to determining:
- How to choose the correct primary diagnosis
- Sequencing co-morbidities to properly capture reimbursement
- Understand the coding terminology of specific PPS diagnostic categories
- Reimbursement strategies: Is your diagnosis tied to supply reimbursement?
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
After this 60-minute audio conference, you, your clinicians and your PI, coding and billing staff will have a clear understanding of coding best practices for home health.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- New Specific Diagnostic Categories
- Know the questions to ask to properly determine diagnoses
- Selecting the correct primary diagnosis code - Avoid down-coding/denials
- Understand co-morbidities and resolved diagnosis - Get Reimbursed
- Reimbursement Strategies That Work
- Keys to sequencing secondary and other diagnoses
- Properly code for treatment VS aftercare
- Keys to proper diagnosis for supply payment NRS
- ICD-9 Coding Changes & Updates
- New codes for secondary diabetes and much more
- Additional code usage for wounds & pressure ulcers staging
- Updated codes for MRSA and MSSA
- Live Question and Answer Session - Have your real-world Home Health coding questions addressed!
- New Specific Diagnostic Categories
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SPEAKER
JOAN L. USHER, BS, RHIA, COS-C, ACE, President, JLU Health Record Systems, Pembroke, MA
Joan has a degree in Health Information Management and is certified as an OASIS Specialist - Clinical. She is the author, Rapid Reference Coding Guide www.jluhealth.com and ICD-9CM Coding for Home Health, A Comprehensive Coders Guide. She has taught ICD-9 coding for over 11 years and has educated over 7,500 people nationwide. She is also active in Foundation Home & Health MA and Hospice & Palliative Care Federation MA. She is past president of Massachusetts Health Information Management Association where under her leadership; MA received 4 national awards from AHIMA in Continuing Education Programs, Support for Accredited HIM Education Programs, Legislative Advocacy and Electronic Communications. -
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. Audio recordings will be received approximately three weeks after the live conference.
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