Thursday, May 24

Understanding the sequencing of COPD for outpatient or inpatient encounters is critical for coding accuracy, medical necessity, and reimbursement, as you’ll learn in this exclusive ICD10monitor webcast.

Wednesday, June 6

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

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’?

This exclusive ICD10monitor two-part series, led by national coding authority Kathy Pride, will provide you with the knowledge necessary for knowing when and how to correctly apply E&M and surgical modifiers.

Is this happening to you? Do you have problems getting your providers to document respiratory failure when it is present? Do you have problems with providers documenting respiratory failure when it isn't present, setting up clinical validation denials? You're not alone.

Nationally-recognized HIM expert Rose Dunn will lead this essential webcast, one that is designed to help HIM professionals to lead the documentation improvement activities that will benefit their organizations.

With this webcast, you and your team will learn how to recognize different types and etiologies of encephalopathy, reflect on the patient's severity and complexity accurately, and optimize coding and risk adjustment.

In this webcast, you will learn how to scrutinize diagnoses in light of the clinical indicators present in the medical record. And, you will learn how to perform clinical validation relative to querying and denials management.

This webcast will help you understand the condition of sepsis and what to do about documenting, coding, creating internal clinical guidelines, and preventing clinical validation denials.

The 2018 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) final rule has changes that could haunt you and your facility unless you're aware of their ominous presence.

The presentation addresses the rationale for the proposed changes, the discussion to achieve a resolution, and the final rule’s acceptance/rejection of the proposed change.