Teaching E/M Coding to Your Physician: Part 1

Overview:

Accurate documentation is key to good patient care, but it is also linked to reimbursement and subject to the scrutiny of outside reviews by all carriers. In a time of decreased reimbursement, it is more important than ever to capture all of the medically necessary work for your providers.

In part one, specifically, we will cover the How to's of preparation for teaching your physician E/M Coding - tips, techniques, and strategies.

You Will Learn:

• Strategies for effective communication with your providers. One cannot expect a provider to change a behavior, if the provider does not understand what is being asked of them and why. It is not productive to talk to a provider in a coding language that they do not understand. Participants will learn how to bridge the language barrier between coding and medicine.
• Participants also need to give providers rationales as to why the change is necessary. Obtaining a working relationship, involving mutual respect goes a long way to developing a strong repoire with providers.
• Review some of the most commonly identified areas of insufficient documentation, e.g. ROS and Family Hx.
• Both bad examples of documentation and good examples of documentation.

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About The Presenter

Kerin Draak, MS, RN, WHNP-BC, CPC, CEMC, COBGC has been involved in the health care field for over 18 years. She has over 11 years of clinical experience in Women’s Health. Her coding career started in 2004 and she has been the coding educator for a 220+ multispecialty clinic since that time involved in the development of the internal chart audit program. She has developed educational tools, guides and policies for the clinic. She is currently the President for her local AAPC chapter as well as a member of the National Advisory Board for the AAPC. She has been presenter for the Wisconsin Medical Society’s at their Annual Symposium since 2007 has conducted several audio and day seminars on their behalf. She was a speaker at the AAPC National conferences in 2008 and 2009.

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