Description

The presentation will include a brief overview of ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS to provide HIM professionals with a better understanding of potential transition issues. It will help you to assess your facility, department and personal readiness for the transition to ICD-10. Transition topics include technical issues, documentation and data issues, training, and productivity impact on revenue. It is still early but we need to be sure we have an ICD-10 action plan in place.

Speaker

Sara Clark, MLS, RHIA
Manager, Provider Consulting Solutions, Inc.

Ms. Clark has extensive experience developed over 20 years of direct hands on experience in all facets of Health Information Management. Her areas of expertise include outpatient and inpatient prospective payment systems (MS-DRGs, AP/APR DRGs, APCs, APGs, and CRGs), outpatient coding, inpatient coding (ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS), physician coding, compliance, documentation improvement, operational assessment, case mix analysis and use of Interqual criteria for appropriateness of admission reviews. Prior to joining Provider Consulting Solution, Ms. Clark worked as a Health Information Management Consultant specializing in DRG, ICD-9-CM, APC and CPT coding audits. She provides documentation and coding training to support accurate billing for inpatient, ambulatory surgery and outpatient services. She has recently helped institute a successful concurrent documentation improvement program for an upstate hospital system. Prior to working as a consultant, Ms. Clark was the Director of Medical Information Services for an integrated delivery system that included three acute care hospitals, a large multi-specialty physician group and 21 regional clinics. Her duties included responsibility for the system-wide unit medical record, coding of inpatient and outpatient services, transcription and the clinical data repository. A computerized patient record was implemented at the facility during her tenure. She has been actively monitoring and advocating for the transition to ICD-10 for many years.

Pricing

Presentation Date

Originally presented live on November 4, 2009

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