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2009 ICD-9 Home Health Wound Care Coding: Changes You Need to Know
Audio Conference Recording Price: 199.00 -
SUMMARY
Wound care, ulcer and lesion billing for home health care has the attention of CMS this year and now proper reimbursement will require you to understand all the changes. 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 primary and secondary diagnosis can affect your reimbursement
- Billing and coding tips for multiple pressure ulcers
- How to code for post-operative infections, complications and more
- ICD-9 tips for trauma and surgical wound coding
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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 wound, ulcer and lesion coding for the home health.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- ICD-9 Coding for Wounds & Lesions
- How primary and secondary diagnosis can affect your reimbursement
- CMS quality measures you need to know
- Coding for post-operative infections, complications and more
- Ulcer Coding for Proper Reimbursement
- Know the different stages of bilateral pressure ulcers - and how to code for them
- Tips for proper diagnosis and billing for multiple pressure ulcers
- Keys to coding diabetic, stasis and lower extremity ulcers
- Trauma (Open) & Surgical Wounds - Changes to ICD-9 Classifications
- New codes & procedures for post-operative wounds
- Skin tears and laceration coding "do's" and "don'ts"
- How to catalogue non-healing surgical wounds - including proper coding
- Live Question and Answer Session - Have your real-world wound, lesion and ulcer coding questions addressed!
- ICD-9 Coding for Wounds & Lesions
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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.
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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. Audio recordings will be received approximately three weeks after the live conference.
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