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Coding Keeping Current with Changes

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Coding Keeping Current with Changes

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    1. Coding Keeping Current with Changes ENTERPRISES P. O. Box 2037 Canyon Lake, TX 71830 (830) 964-3470 lmarlow@gvtc.com

    2. LCM Enterprises 2 Reasons for Coders to Keep Current

    3. LCM Enterprises 3 Reasons for Coders to Keep Current Professional integrity and credibility “Be all that you can be”

    4. LCM Enterprises 4 Reasons for Coders to Keep Current Coders need to be the experts in the facility Department coding policies Answering questions from other departments Hospital and department compliance plans

    5. LCM Enterprises 5 Reasons for Coders to Keep Current Maintenance of professional credentials Continuing education credits Self-assessment

    6. LCM Enterprises 6 Reasons for Coders to Keep Current Employer’s expectations Keeping current has an impact on the coding quality and productivity level Compliant coding Keeping ARs down Meeting continuing education (CE) requirement

    7. LCM Enterprises 7 Organizations that Provide Official Coding Information ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee American Hospital Association (AHA) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) American Medical Association

    8. LCM Enterprises 8 ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee American Health Information Management Association Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) American Hospital Association National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

    9. LCM Enterprises 9 ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee ICD-9-CM C&M meets twice a year April 1-2, 2004 October 7-8, 2004 March 31-April 1, 2005 September 29-30, 2005

    10. LCM Enterprises 10 ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee In addition to the C&M Committee members who may attend the meetings? Medical specialty representatives Hospital association representatives Members of coding organizations Anyone with an interested in coding

    11. LCM Enterprises 11 Anyone with an interested in coding

    12. LCM Enterprises 12 ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee Agendas, summary of topics discussed and comments made by public at meeting Procedure topics & summary posted at: www.cms.hhs.paymentsystems/icd9 Diagnosis topics & summary – www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd9.htm

    13. LCM Enterprises 13 ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee Official codes available to public in Federal Register in proposed rule for update of Inpatient Prospective Payment System

    14. LCM Enterprises 14 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Official coding and billing rules for Medicare and Medicaid payment systems http://www.cms.hhs.gov http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medlearn/listserv.asp http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medlearn

    15. LCM Enterprises 15 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Texas fiscal intermediary/carrier TrailBlazer Health Enterprises, LLC Part A and Part B information www.trailblazerhealth.com Provides free education www.the-medicare.com/parta/education.asp www.the-medicare.com/partb/tx/education.asp

    16. LCM Enterprises 16 American Hospital Association (AHA) Central Office on ICD-9-CM Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM Coding Clinic for HCPCS Answer written coding questions

    17. LCM Enterprises 17 True or False Faye Brown’s ICD-9-CM Coding Handbook published by AHA is an official coding resource. You have ten seconds

    18. LCM Enterprises 18 False Her book follows official coding guidelines, but is not an official source.

    19. LCM Enterprises 19 American Medical Association (AMA) Current Procedure Terminology (CPT) Maintains coding system Closed process Annual update available in the fall effective January next year CPT Assistant

    20. LCM Enterprises 20 True or False CPT codes are updated once a year. You have five seconds

    21. LCM Enterprises 21 False

    22. LCM Enterprises 22 American Medical Association Releases codes during the year Early release of Category I codes Immunization Administration/Vaccine Product Codes for CPT - Jan 2005 effective Jul 2005 Semiannual release of Category III codes January – effective July July – effective January

    23. LCM Enterprises 23 Other Resources of Coding Information

    24. LCM Enterprises 24 AHIMA Journal of AHIMA Communities of Practice CodeWrite Community News

    25. LCM Enterprises 25 AHIMA Educational offerings Audioconferences Live seminars Full line of on and off line products CE quizzes in AHIMA Journal

    26. LCM Enterprises 26 TxHIMA Very aggressive education schedule Monthly ICD-10 audio series 8 coding seminars by April 2006 TxHIMA Journal Coding roundtables at several HIT & HIM education sites

    27. LCM Enterprises 27 Free Magazine Subscriptions For The Record www.subscription.gvpub.com Advance for The Health Information Professional www.advanceweb.com/subscriptions.asp

    28. LCM Enterprises 28 Internet CMS has several free email listservs http://www.cms.hhs.gov/mailinglists/ Free medical dictionaries http://www.medterms.com/script/main/hp.asp

    29. LCM Enterprises 29 Internet Free drug look ups http://www.rxlist.com/ http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html www.drugs.com/ Free commercial ezines

    30. LCM Enterprises 30 Questions?

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