How to Effectively Teach E&M Coding to Your Doctor in One Hour
- Broadcast: Jun 8, 2009 at 4:30PM
- Presentation Length:
1 Hour
- On Demand available: Jun 8, 2009 at 5:30PM MDT *(Post-Event Recording)
- Author: Stephanie Cecchini CHISP, CPC, CEMC
- CEUs:
Up to 4 CEUS (with pre and post exercises)
- Price:
$189.95
- Members:
$149.95
- Corporate Members:
$134.96
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Overview:
This workshop teaches how to communicate the principals of accurate code selection and documentation requirement using a process that delivers the information in less than an hour and is easy and logical for physicians to grasp and immediatly implement. It provides you with specific techniques that translate to improved documentation, accurate code selection and bottom line results.
This Workshop Will Help You:
Learn how to quickly and easily teach physicians to document and select levels for patient visits.
Get real tips for everyday problems physicians have with code leveling a patient service:
- Know how to decrease documentation time
- Identify when the "extra bullet" is really warranted
- Recognize a level of service immediately
Learn how to get buy-in to reduce under-coding, and keep a physician out of harm's way during an audit.
In this step-by-step description of the CMS 1995 and 1997 Documentation Requirements, you'll get answers to:
- Usual points of confusion, subjective aspects and payment concerns
- How to improve coding so that it takes less time and is more accurate
- Why auditors disagree--and what to do when this happens
- How to avoid dependence on software
- How to counter complaints to make learning easy
- Finding outcomes that are correct, productive and painless
Register to Access this On Demand Event
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Author:
Stephanie Jones Cecchini, CPC, CPC-I, CEMC, CHISP, has more than 10 years experience in the health care marketplace. She has been actively involved with physician coding and documentation requirements, overcharge monitoring, physician compliance programs, and the design of commercial insurer overpayment recovery systems. Stephanie has been a member of the AAPC and a CPC since 1997 and actively involved with physician coding and documentation requirements since 1995. An expert in her field, she developed the core curriculum for the diploma granting Insurance Coding Specialist program, the first of its kind to be approved by the State of Florida in post-secondary, college education. Stephanie has worked closely with national plans including Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Humana, Inc., and in various advisory positions within the industry including Consulting Editor for The Coding Institute’s "Compliance Alert" and on the Coding Institute’s/Eli Research's Editorial Board for the "Medical Office Billing and Collections Alert." She has written and facilitated hundreds of multi-specialty physician seminars and is the designer of the popular pocket tool "The E/M Coding Wheel."
