CHANGES TO ICD-10 CODES AND MORE THAN CHANGES 2016 - Navigating Through the 2017 ICD-10 Code Changes that will Impact Home Health and Hospice - By Compliance Global Inc

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Category Education; E-Learning

Deadline: July 20, 2016 | Date: July 20, 2016

Venue/Country: Online Webinar, U.S.A

Updated: 2016-06-28 15:21:38 (GMT+9)

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Health care providers will need to be knowledgeable with these changes since there is no grace period for using the new codes and continued use of codes that have been changed or deleted will result in rejection of claims and delays in reimbursement for services provided.

Home health and hospice organizations have worked hard to implement the ICD-10 codes list, but as in the years under the ICD-9 data, it is imperative to stay current with changes in the data set.

Included in the changes are 264 new codes for diabetes mellitus, 81 codes that relate to the circulatory system, 152 musculoskeletal system and connective tissue codes, 79 new symptoms, signs and laboratory findings, 62 codes in the genitourinary chapter and a whopping 885 new codes related to injuries, poisoning, and certain other consequences of external causes to list just some of the changes.

In addition to the 1,943 new codes, there are another 422 existing codes that have been revised plus 305 existing diagnosis codes that have been deleted.

Why Should You Attend:

Do not leave correct coding to chance and uncertainty. With the ongoing limitations on reimbursement for home health and hospice care, no agency can afford to have their claim rejected and unreimbursed.

Avoid the fear and financial penalties of using incorrect codes and prepare for the changes in advance of the 10/1/16 implementation date. Dedicating 90 minutes of your time now to learn what is changing and how you can prepare for these changes and avoid denied claims and hours of staff time to correct errors is a small investment for the potential loss of payment associated with even one denied claim.

Delays and denials of claim reimbursement can affect nearly all aspects of your agency’s operation, including productivity, cash flow, and delays of other essential agency activities due to the time and expense needed to correct errors. Getting AHA coding clinic right the first time supports the highest level of efficiency and effectiveness in health care agency operations.

Areas Covered in this Webinar:

Identify new codes effective 10/1/16 that are likely to impact home health and hospice care

Identify codes that have been deleted or changed effective and will no long be valid for use on and after 10/1/16

Discuss changes in guidance that have resulted from AHA Coding Clinic interpretations in ICD-10-CM since 10/1/15 important to home health and hospice

Identify possible changes in the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting pending availability

Case examples utilizing samples of the new and changed ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes that will be effective 10/1/16

Learning Objectives:

Identify new codes effective 10/1/16 that will provide a better, more detailed description of patient diagnoses to support home health and hospice care

Learn which codes cannot be used on and after 10/1/16

Describe steps to prepare for the 10/1/16 changes

Who Will Benefit:

Coders

Clinicians

Clinical Team Leaders/Supervisors

Billing Staff

Quality Improvement Staff

Intake Coordinators

Liaison Staff

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Level:

Intermediate

Speaker Profile:

Judy Adams’s experiences include working closely with regulators, third-party payers, occupational licensing boards and home care providers on numerous issues involving health and social supportive services in the home and community settings.

For the past 20+ years, she has provided a variety of operational and clinical consultative services to large and small home care and hospice organizations in several states in the eastern half of the United States and taught hundreds of teleconferences and day-long workshops ondiagnosis coding, OASIS, home health prospective payment system, coverage and documentation, and a variety of other clinical and regulatory home health and hospice topics for individual agencies, state associations and national organizations.

In addition, she regularly conducts record audits related to compliance with regulatory and third party payer guidelines for home health and hospice agencies as well as coding and OASIS accuracy reviews.

Judy earned her diploma in nursing from Norwalk Hospital School of Nursing and Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been certified as a Homecare Coding Specialist – Diagnosis (HCS-D) since 2003 and a Home Care Clinical Specialist – OASIS (HCS-O) since March 2011 from the Board of Medical Specialty Coding and Compliance and became an AHIMA approved ICD-10-CM Trainer in June 2012.

She served as a member of the Home Care Expert Panel to the Board of Medical Specialty Coding and Compliance from 2008.-2014. She regularly contributes to articles in a number of national publications on coding, home health and hospice issues