Thousands of American Academy of Professional Coders members gathered in Jacksonville, Fla. for 3 jam-packed days of coding advice, camaraderie, and learning. Coders’ biggest struggle was narrowing down which sessions to attend. For those of you who wonder what you missed and for coders who couldn’t make this year’s national conference, here’s a sneak peak at the documentation improving tips and scenario solutions experts offered.
These are my top 4:
1. Eliminate stress with a wacky dance. Seriously, psychologist Dr. Farris Jordan demonstrated how responding to computer melt downs with a pseudo Church Lady strut can turn that frown to belly rolls.
2. Timesaving method boosts discharge management pay by $31. “I was never seeing a note with discharge management time,” reported nurse practitioner Kerin Draak, MS, RN, WHNP-BC, CPC, CEMC, COBGC, in “Hospital Coding … Making the Rounds”. Boost 99238 to 99239 every legit time with a checkbox for “More than 30 minutes”.
3. You can break 64450 denials with modifier 59. Rejections for nerve blocks were stumping a coder whose mystery was solved with expert advice from Marvel J. Hammer, RN, CPC, CCS-P, PCS, ACSPM, CHCO, owner of MJH Consulting in Denver in Anesthesia and Pain Management Coding Alert part of Supercoder.com’s coding suite of products.
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This was just a bit of what I learned in the 3 jam-packed conference days. It was great to meet so many of you at the conference - and for those who missed it, make plans to be there next year!
Cheers,
Jen Godreau, BA, CPC, CPEDC
Content Director, Supercoder.com
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