Expert Tips To Survive Payer Audits And To Protect Your Practice From Loosing Appeals And Dollars...

The Hospital Medicine specialty is undoubtedly one of the fastest growing medical specialties in the country. Hospitalists often face major challenges in managing inpatients whose treatments and management frequently extends to skilled nursing facilities, critical care, observation areas and also office or clinic management in some cases. As hospitalists use a lot of code sets, they are indeed at high risk for coding errors. Unlike many other medical specialties, hospitalists often assign their own codes without understanding a lot of nuances that eventually decide how levels are determined and claims are paid.

Register now with this 60-minute audio event where our expert speaker Caral Edelberg, CPC, CPMA, CAC, CCS-P, CHC, will provide you expert insights on the high risk of coding areas that you regularly manage with special emphasis on critical care, prolonged services and the high level initial and subsequent level visits that have the highest risk for payer audit if coded incorrectly. Ms. Edelberg will provide vital information on documenting those acute unexpected problems during a routine hospital stay and how to use supporting rationale for diagnostic studies and orders for medications, consults and treatment for unforeseen problems. Register with this event and also get a plan for managing payer audits and Ms. Edelberg will also discuss instituting corrective action with physicians and coders.