About the Speaker
Judy Adams is the President and CEO of Adams Home Care Consulting, Inc. For the past 30+ years, Judy has provided a variety of operational and clinical consultative services to large and small home care and hospice organizations in several states in the eastern half of the United States. She has taught hundreds of teleconferences and day-long workshops on ICD-9 and ICD-10 diagnosis coding, OASIS, home health prospective payment system, coverage and documentation, and a variety of other clinical and regulatory home health and hospice topics for individual agencies, state associations and national organizations. She regularly provides record reviews related to compliance with regulatory and third party payer guidelines for home health and hospice agencies as well as coding and OASIS accuracy reviews. She also served as a member of the Expert Panel to the Board of Medical Specialty Coding and Compliance from 2008-2014.
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ICD-10 Coding for
Home Health & Hospice
July 12-13, 2016
(8:00 am to 4:30 pm)
Vista Tech Center, Livonia MI
Just only ONE year, after transitioning to ICD-10, the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee recently announced the first update after a five-year code freeze! Do you know that there are 1,943 new codes, 422 revised codes and 305 deleted codes? These include 260 new diabetes combination codes for reporting manifestations, 152 codes within the musculoskeletal chapter and 885 new codes in Chapter 19, mainly fracture codes to highlight just a few of the changes! In fact, every chapter has changes in the codes!
Attend this highly informative workshop and get instructions on these latest changes. Vital to your role as coder is to assure compliance with the latest information as it impacts payment, outcomes and accuracy of your patient records.
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Early Bird
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After 6/17/16
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On-Site
(space permitting)
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$399
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$449
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$549
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Who Should Attend:
Homecare Nurses, Therapists, Clinical Supervisors, Administrators, Financial Managers, Quality Improvement, QA Staff and Billing Staff
The purpose of this activity is to enable attendees to acquire knowledge of the changes that have been implemented since October 1, 2015, an overview of the new and revised codes that will impact home health and hospice and have an opportunity to practice with a selection of intermediate level coding scenarios and sample situations.
DAY ONE: July 12, 2016 (8:00am-4:30pm)
(TUESDAY) Registration Begins at 7:00 am
Objectives:
1. Identify updates in ICD-10 coding conventions, such as interim guidance related to Excludes 1 notations, appropriate use of symptom codes, and correct selection of 7th characters.
2. Discuss the status of conflicting direction related to common codes utilized in home health such as nonhealing/slow healing surgical wounds, muscle and bone severity levels of nonpressure ulcers, joint replacement for traumatic fractures, etc.
3. Discuss overview of the new, revised and deleted codes most applicable to home health and hospice that are scheduled for implementation on October 1, 2016.
4. Practice using the fiscal year 2017 new and revised codes in home health and hospice situations with particular emphasis on new and revised codes in:
- Diabetic combination codes for reporting manifestations.
- Diseases of the circulatory system
- Diseases of the digestive system
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system
DAY TWO: July 13, 2016 (8:00am-4:30pm)
(WEDNESDAY) Registration Begins at 7:00 am
Objectives:
1. Discuss accurate code selection and sequencing related to case examples from a variety of body systems, including, but not limited to, the following topical areas:
- Variety of Neoplasm situations
- Dementia and other Behavioral Health Disorders
- Diseases of the Respiratory System
- Coding pressure ulcers and other disorders of the skin
- Differences in coding pathological fractures, osteoporosis and other musculoskeletal system diagnoses.
ACCOMMODATION:
A block of rooms is being held at the Hyatt Place Detroit-Livonia Hotel in the evening of July 11-12. Please mention “A-1 Homecare” or group code G-A1HO when reserving your room. Reservation must be done no later than June 27, after this date, rooms and rates are not guaranteed. Reservations can be made by calling (734)-953-9224. The hotel provides complimentary shuttle service from the hotel to the conference and shuttle back to the hotel (with prior arrangement). Discounted Rate: $140.
CANCELLATION/REFUND POLICY:
Cancellations received in writing 10 days prior to the workshop will be subject to a 20% administrative fee. NO REFUNDS will be issued for cancellations received within 10 days of the workshop. Refunds will NOT be made for no-shows. However, substitutions will be allowed. Please advise A1HC&S in writing of any cancellation or substitution in advance of the workshop.
(The sponsors reserve the right to cancel workshops with full refund due to low attendance or other reasons beyond our control)