ICD-10, Documentation, Education, Preparation, and You

Why Should You Attend:

ICD-10 is upon us and current statistics have revealed that many providers are not yet prepared. With an increase of over 135,000 new codes it doesn’t take much to understand that this significant increase in codes will require numerous changes in your office such as direct anatomical documentation, staff training and education, software changes and much more. These numerous changes will result in claim denials, claim delays and worst of all, lost revenue.

This webinar will guide attendees in applying your current practice’s ICD-10 prep and help identify problem focus areas in your transition.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• How to apply your current practice’s ICD-10 prep.
• To prepare or not to prepare.
• These 3 ICD-10 answers may surprise you.
• ICD-10 implementation — how does your practice stack up?
• Identifying problem focus areas in your transition.
• Where do you stand in the ICD-10 transition phase?
• What’s different between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10CM?
• How to identify good documentation?
• Get specifics about pacemaker adjustments for ICD-10 success.
• To assess documentation needs and how to improve them.
• Recognize payer readiness and payer impacts.
• Complete staff member preparation and training by role.
• How to assess educational needs.
• Physician training and why it’s important.

Who Will Benefit:

This webinar will provide valuable assistance to all personnel in medical offices, practice groups, hospitals, academic medical centers, insurers, business associates (shredding, data storage, systems vendors, billing services, etc.). The titles are:

• Compliance director
• CEO
• CFO
• Privacy Officer
• Security Officer
• Information Systems Manager
• HIPAA Officer
• Chief Information Officer
• Health Information Manager
• Healthcare Counsel/Lawyer
• Office Manager
• Contracts Manager
• Medical Coder
• Medical Biller

Instructor Profile:

Michael A. Reynolds, CPC, CCP-P, CPMB, CBCS, OS, has over 26 years’ experience in the health care arena with expertise in areas such as health care management, medical billing and collections, medical coding, medical reimbursement, managed care claims processing and appeals, health care compliance management, and as a customer service representative, premium service representative, and as a billing instructor. During 2005, 2008 and 2011, Mr. Reynolds served as the president of the San Diego Chapter of the American Academy of Professional Coders, and is a current board member for the National Health Career Association.

Mr. Reynolds is also a current member of the American Academy of Professional Coders and the Professional Medical Billers Association, and serves on the board of Medical Specialty Coding. He teaches both medical billing and coding and electronic health records at San Diego State University and is co-owner of Pitt & Reynolds Medical Coding and Consulting.

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