This two-day seminar will accelerate your current understanding of coding and be positioned for success with emerging coding opportunities. Sign up for just one day, or both.

How You Will Benefit

• Gain appreciation for how the consistency of coded data and the role of data quality in measuring compliance and quality of care reporting.

• Understand the impact of the new MCC/CC codes, documentation requirements, and query opportunities

• What’s new in the ICD-10-CM classification system

• Apply coding guidelines and expand clinical knowledge for coding specific challenges.

• Awareness of the coder’s role in emerging clinical terminologies and classification systems in electronic health record.

What You Will Cover

• New opportunities in MCC/CC coding under MS-DRGs with the focus on data analysis and reporting.
• Apply the latest ICD-10-CM coding into case scenarios
• Coding and documentation challenges and their impact to quality, pay for performance, reimbursement, and compliance.
• Case studies to build code assignment skills and best practices for obtaining physician clarification for code choices that result in documentation improvement.
• Regulatory and industry changes and how to integrate best practices into the coding and data reporting process.

Who Should Attend

Coding professionals; Managers of coding; Coding Consultants; Others involved in the reporting or use of coded data in the following settings: acute care, long term care, outpatient, and physician.

Please click on the link to the agenda for details on the seminar topics.

Faculty

AHIMA professional practice staff will speak on two topics along with other guest speakers. Faculty and agenda (learning levels and learning categories) are site specific. Click on the “Agenda” at the topic of this page for more details.

Minimum of 12 CEUs for the two-day seminar.

Learning Level

Learning Category

Component State Associations (CSA) co-sponsoring this program:

District of Columbia Health Information Management Association

Virginia Health Information Management Association

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