1. Healthcare Revenue Trifecta – Coding, Billing, Documentation.
Webinar Details
Date : January 4th Wednesday 2016
Time : 01:00PM ET / 10:00AM PT
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Duration: 60 Minutes
Speaker : Dorothy D. Stead, Independent Healthcare Consultant.
Key Take Away
This webinar will look at each ofthe healthcare revenue management trifecta – coding, billing and documentation and will review key areas of weakness and discuss methods to improve the process.
Overview
Revenue management continues to be increasingly difficult to manage. No longer are generic coding and weak documentation adequate to receive payment. The ICD-10 reporting flexibility has expired.
In order to maintain sufficient revenue, providers and staff must focus on these clinical documentation specialistkey areas that will make or break your bottom line. If one clinical documentation improvement programis weak, the others will be affected and likely result in claims rejections, increasing requests for medical records and inability to adequately support medical necessity. Continued problems not only delays reimbursement, review of your claims submission patterns and clinical documentation improvement certificationmay fall under scrutiny.
Why Should You Attend
With the expiration of flexibility in claims reporting, providers will be required to submit codes in detail, avoiding unspecified unless there is no alternative.
Additionally, clinical documentation improvement specialist training must support the codes reported and the required medical necessity. Often, these areas are challengingcdi training for nurses.
Areas Covered In This Webinar
Why generic coding will lead to problems
Does your claim pass payer processing system edits?
Do you know how to reduce claims rejections?
Learning Objectives
Importance of diagnosis code specificity
Determining the medical necessity of service codes
Coding for co-morbidities and why it is important
Problematic documentation. Is medical necessity supported?

2. Who Will Benefit Speakers Profile Coding & Billing Staff
Medical Records Staff
Office Managers
Physicians
Mid-Level Providers
Revenue Cycle Staff
Reimbursement Staff
Clinical Documentation Specialists
Speakers Profile
Dorothy D. Steed
Dorothy D. Steed, CCS, CDIP, COC, CPCO, CPUM, CPUR, CPHM, CPMA, ACS-OP, CCS-P, RCC, RMC,
CEMC, CPC-I, CFPC, PCS, FCS, CPARis an Independent Healthcare Consultant and Educator in Atlanta.
She was a Medicare specialist for a large hospital system and a physician audit supervisor for another hospital system, with 39 years of experience in healthcare. Additionally, she is an instructor at a state technical college in Atlanta, provides auditing & training in both facility and physician services, and has been a speaker at several healthcare conferences.
Ms. Steed has written articles for several medical publishers and served as a contributing author for medical billing and coding training material. She writes online courses, and is an AHIMA certified ICD-10 trainer.
Ms. Steed is credentialed in medical coding, medical billing, medical auditing, utilization management, healthcare management, healthcare compliance, clinical documentation improvement and patient accounts. She has served as a participator in multiple audits.
She holds a Bachelor degree with a major in business and minors in both criminal justice and sociology.
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