Topical Training Session Agenda:
Coding with the Pros
(a.k.a., What We Can Expect to Learn from the Topical PEPPER Training on Coding)
How to Reduce Your Hospital's Compliance Risk:- Use the PEPPER report to quickly and easily pinpoint potentially problematic coding issues
- How PEPPER can be used even when your hospital is NOT considered an outlier
- How to use PEPPER data to enhance your hospital's coding procedures
- Understand the methods employed by CMS in developing target areas
- Focus on target areas that represent the most relevant issues to your hospital and state
- View demonstrations with actual PEPPER data
- Examine current, in-depth examples of the target areas that directly concern coding issues
- A topical session on DRGs & CC Pairs
- How DRGs & CC Pairs impacts your hospital, state, and national payment error rate
- Reading PEPPER payment data to illuminate potential under- or over-coding
- Practical advice on avoiding coding problems with DRGs & CC Pairs from an HIM expert
- Specific ways to identify trends in your hospital's data
- Methods for investigating the cause of potential payment errors
- How your hospital's compliance efforts affect your state's, and the nation's, payment error rate
