Your Expert Presenter:

Dianne Wilkinson, Compliance Auditor, West Tennessee Healthcare

Dianne Wilkinson, RHIT, holds credentials in health care information management, compliance, and health care quality. She has worked in health care for 40 years coding and abstracting medical records, 25 of them in hospitals managing HIM departments. She has also performed quality assurance, utilization management and JCAHO coordinator duties. In 1995, she was recruited to the physician office setting in Dyersburg, Tenn. She now works as a compliance auditor for West Tennessee Healthcare, where she has many clients of various specialties who outsource their compliance activities, particularly the auditing and education components.

West Tennessee Healthcare is one of the top ten largest public health systems in the U.S. This comprehensive system includes six hospitals, eight outpatient rehab facilities, a freestanding surgery center, mental health components, home health, DME, primary care clinics in five cities and three EMS system locations.

How the Audio Conference Works

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It’s a fact – denial rates and repayment demands for services your physicians do at inpatient settings are much higher than for services you do in the office.

New discharge day management services billing rules from CMS can help clarify your billing, but only if you know how to do it right. Expert presenter Dianne Wilkinson of West Tennessee Healthcare will bring her over 40 years of experience to this 90-minute session and tell you what you need to know about these new rules.

She won’t stop there. Dianne will also give you time-tested strategies to help your doctors better document inpatient E/M services and ensure your practice bills these services right the first time and gets this much needed revenue.

Dianne will give you:

• A complete run-down of just-released CMS guidance for billing discharge day management services.
• Solutions to get your doctors to document hospital E/M services appropriately.
• Suggestions for pre-printed forms to help with E/M documentation.
• The headings your doctors need on every hospital consult and history exam.
• How to make sure your doctors are able to bill for the comprehensive inpatient services they deliver.
• How to document the work done … what to say and what NOT to say.

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Approved for 1.5 CEUs (ACS, SCP)

This program has prior approval of the American Academy of Professional Coders for 1.5 Continuing Education Units. Granting of this approval in no way constitutes endorsement by the Academy of the program, content or the program sponsor.

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