Webinars

4 Documentation Webinars: Building Blocks of an Effective Documentation-Improvement Program for Wound Care

This four-part series is specifically designed to help wound care organizations improve documentation. Comprehensive and accurate clinical documentation is essential for ensuring a comprehensive plan of care and serves as a communication vehicle for all wound care practitioners. Clinical documentation is also important for reimbursement and legal documentation of services rendered, and provides clear rationales for the medical necessity of treatments. It’s also used to report quality measures for comparisons and benchmarking. Scant, incomplete or absent documentation can lead to inaccurate assignment of diagnosis and procedure codes. Clinically relevant and detailed documentation will limit a practitioner’s exposure during external audits, during which many funds may be lost due to inadequate documentation. Get a head start on improving your documentation — air-tight documentation of the work you’ve performed will have a HUGE impact on your wound care practice. Please join us for the series!

4 Unique Wound Care Documentation Webinars in 2012

Wednesday, February 22, 12 p.m. Eastern

Documentation webinar 1: The Foundation: Clinical Documentation-Improvement Basics
This session will cover how to begin a program in your practice. We will discuss where to start, which team members should participate, training program ideas, and how to keep the momentum going!

Wednesday, March 21, 12 p.m. Eastern

Documentation webinar 2: The Walls: Documentation for Accurate Assignment of Diagnoses Codes
Now that we have the foundation of the program built, let’s put up the walls! During this session, we will discuss the need for specificity in diagnostic statements. There are many instances in which presence or absence of a particular disease can make distinguish the correct code assignment.

Wednesday, May 9, 12 p.m. Eastern

Documentation webinar 3: The Windows: Documentation Requirements for Procedures
Documentation for procedures can be quite complex and can require very detailed information to properly document any procedures performed. The procedure notes give the coders and auditors a a clear view into exactly what services have been performed.

Wednesday, June 20, 12 p.m. Eastern

Documentation webinar 4: The Roof: Payer Requirements for Medical Necessity and Coverage
When putting on the roof, you’ll want to protect against leaks and, of course, be safe while working on top! This session will combine the knowledge of the previous sessions to give you the keys to documentation requirements for medical necessity and insurance coverage. We’ll discuss some examples of payer-specific documentation requirements, which can be long and detailed.

Pricing

$199 each or $599 for all four (broadcast to internal office staff is permitted)

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ICD-10 is real and coming to your wound care practice fast! Avoid the confusion and register now.

• Have you learned how to crosswalk the ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes to the ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes? You must begin doing this now to be ready for the ICD-10-CM conversion.

• Have you written an implementation plan for the conversion to the ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes? You must prepare now to be ready for the ICD-10-CM conversion.

• Have you identified the all documentation changes that physicians, podiatrists and non-physician practitioners will have to implement in preparation for converting to the new ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes? They must begin incorporating those documentation requirements into medical records now to be fully prepared for the ICD-10-CM conversion.

• Do you know how to conduct a documentation-gap analysis to identify where physicians, podiatrists, and non-physician practitioners do not provide enough information to support the level of specificity necessary required by the ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes? Once a gap analysis has been conducted, a documentation-education program must begin to fully prepare for the ICD-10-CM conversion.

• Have you identified all paper documents that must be revised to accommodate the ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes? You must begin this work now to be fully prepared for the ICD-10-CM conversion.

• Have you identified all the software changes and talked to your software vendors about their plans to convert from the ICD-9-CM diagnosis coding system to the ICD-10-CM diagnosis coding system? You must begin this work now to be fully prepared for the ICD-10-CM conversion.

There’s much work to be done to prepare for the changes — get a jump on it NOW by learning the new diagnosis coding system and some implementation tips!