Primary Care Coding Alert

Presented by Marvel J. Hammer, RN, BS, CPC, CCS-P, CHCO

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The speaker for the teleconference, Marvel J. Hammer, RN, BS, CPC, CCS-P, CHCO, is an accomplished professional with many years of experience in both business and healthcare. She is a coding and compliance consultant and principal of MJH Consulting in Denver, Colorado. She provides documentation auditing, healthcare compliance evaluations and coding/account receivables assistance for her clients. In addition, she teaches providers and their staff correct coding and billing strategies. She is currently the president of the Rocky Mountain chapter of AAPC. Marvel is a registered nurse with over 25 years of experience in numerous specialties. Good morning everyone.  I should say good morning and good afternoon depending on where you are in the country.  I would like to start off today's session with a little anecdote that I ran across.  It is called an EMT true tale.  We got a call to respond to a work site related injury and when we arrived, we found one of the employees clutching his hand.  Not paying attention, he had run his hand through an electric plane.  After stabilizing the guy and whisking him off to the hospital, my partner and I returned to the base.  However, a short time later, we received another call to another emergency at the same work site.  When we arrived, low and behold, the same guy returned to the work site to explain or possibly brag about the incident to his co-workers.  Upon demonstrating the accident, his bandages were caught in the revolving plane and again he ran the same hand through for a second time. 

As many of you have probably seen in your practices, Workers- Compensation injuries do not always make sense.  We are going to talk today about some guaranteed strategies for Workers- Compensation claim success and how to take the work out of Coding & billing Work Comp claims.

Let us go ahead and get started.  I would like to briefly talk just a little bit about the history of Workers- Compensation and that will give you some insight as to what the mechanics of what we have current day.  Workers- compensation is basically [...]