Gain the ability to accurately assign the anemia codes and the justification to overturn or support anemia code assignment.

Unlike coronary artery disease, smoking, and diabetes, malnutrition is often poorly documented and thus creates a cascade of erroneous information that will permeate throughout the entire care process. This exclusive webcast will help you understand the condition of malnutrition and what to do about coding, querying, creating internal clinical guidelines, and preventing clinical validation denials.

Wednesday, July 18

With fracture diagnoses, the more specific you can be in your coding efforts, the more consistent the reimbursement will be. And with less guess work in your coding, the likelihood of denials occurring will be minimal.

Tuesday, July 31

Knowing the “whys” and the wherefores behind guidelines, clinical indicators, and coding parameters will help you achieve the most effective coding for any situation—particularly when coding the nation’s costliest chronic conditions.

August 21, 22, and 23

The all-new ICD-10-PCS/CM codes for 2019 will be implemented soon and you and your team will want to be the first to experience these new codes and concepts. Take your coding skills to a new level of performance before the codes changes become effective October 1.

Tuesday, August 21

You and your team will be able to master the new ICD-10-CM codes changes. As in past years, these diagnosis codes have been significantly high in number and in complexity. Take your coding skills to a new level of performance before the codes changes become effective October 1.

Wednesday, August 22

Take your coding skills to a whole new level of proficiency in applying the 2019 ICD-10-PCS code set. There’s a total of 78,881 ICD-10-PCS codes. The 2019 code set includes 392 new codes; 8 revision titles; and 216 deleted codes. Take your coding skills to a new level of performance before the codes changes become effective October 1.

Thursday, August 23

Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRGs) methodology will change, as it always does. But this time you’ll need to understand how these changes will impact your facility’s reimbursement. Take your coding skills to a new level of performance before the codes changes become effective October 1.

Become HCC proficient at your facility thanks to this in-depth, deep-dive into hierarchical condition categories.

Understanding the disease process, coding guidelines and sequencing of COPD for outpatient or inpatient encounters such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma and pneumonia is critical for coding accuracy, medical necessity, and reimbursement. As more are diagnosed with COPD, the coding guidelines and rules continue to evolve and change. This exclusive educational webcast will provide you everything you need to know.

By mastering surgical modifiers, you will help your practice save money by reducing the risk of costly denials, payer audits and —underpayments.

Modifiers continue to be a target for the OIG, RAC, and commercial payer audits. This presentation will provide you with the knowledge for correct usage of E&M modifiers and modifier 25 so your practice can avoid costly pitfalls.

Considered to be one of the most frequently performed procedures in hospitals across the country, spinal fusion continues to be a challenge for many coders. Complicating the issue is that many coders still struggle with the anatomy as well as whether to code associated procedures. This webcast is a long-awaited educational solution to this vexing problem.

Learning more about Parkinson's disease, the manifestations/complications along with documentation and diagnostic coding is vital. Accurate diagnostic coding can impact outcomes, quality scores, and reimbursement, as will be demonstrated in this exclusive ICD10monitor webcast.

The instruction for coding hypertensive heart disease in the 2018 ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Reporting has many wondering: “are we supposed to assume a disease has a causal relationship when it has not been documented by the physician?” Like it or not, the guideline tells us yes. What does that mean for coding staff who have been conditioned to ‘code to the highest level of specificity’?