ICD-10 Coding Education and Training: The Essential Key Steps and Components

Even though the implementation date for ICD-10 could be delayed, there’s no time like now to make coding training and education a top priority. You must be prepared NOW because chances are the implementation deadline could remain — October 2013. Coding is a high impact, high priority workforce issue for which the key step must be readiness. You must be prepared.

Strong HIM coding leadership and guidance is needed for ICD-10 and here’s what you will take away from this presentation: the essential key steps and components you’ll need for a successful education and training plan for ICD-10.

Understanding the coding assessment, the prerequisite education and the code set training needed will help drive forward your plans and implementation with the end result being correct coding and clean claims.

Learning Objectives

Following this session, you should be better able to understand the following:

The implementation and Readiness Project Plan.
The elements and phases of a coding education and training plan — ICD-10 Coding Assessment, ICD-10 Prerequisite Education, ICD-10 Code Set Training and Go-Live
How to budget for your education and training.
The steps necessary for creating a multi-phase and multi-year education and training plan.

Who Should Attend

Compliance directors, revenue cycle directors, IT professionals, HIM directors, coding supervisors, coding consultants.

Your Presenter

Conducting this important Webcast will be Gloryanne Bryant, RHIA, RHIT, CCS, CCDS, who has over 30 years of experience in the health information management. Gloryanne currently is the Regional Managing Director HIM Revenue Cycle at Kaiser Permanente located in Oakland, California.

Ms. Bryant is an ICD10monitor e-news contributing editor and makes frequent appearances on Talk-Ten-Tuesday. Gloryanne serves as a volunteer leader on many levels including for the California Health Information Association (CHIA) as a Director in the past, current President-Elect and has served several national positions for AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association). As a Health Information Management Practitioner in the HIM/Coding arena, she was served a three-year term on the Council on Accreditation for AHIMA and on the AHA Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) on ICD-9-CM for AHA Coding Clinic for two years. She currently serves on the Northern California Board and Newsletter Committee for HFMA.