Coding and Documenting Critical Care for Surgeons and Surgical Intensivists
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Coding and Documenting Critical Care for Surgeons and Surgical Intensivists
$199
Reporting of critical care codes is increasing and has become a major hot spot of payor audits. Why? Critical care codes pay more and require that true critical care was provided. The only way to support critical care is through excellent and compelling documentation describing the critical care encounter.
This webinar will describe the difference between good and bad documentation as well as outlining the current payor rules for use of critical care codes.
Detailed case scenarios will help you identify which critical care circumstances support critical care, and how to create documentation that will hold up under scrutiny.
We’ll also describe when resident or NP/PA documentation and time count in your critical care calculation.
Learning Objectives:
After attending this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify scenarios when critical care coding is appropriate and when it is not.
- List the procedures that are included in critical care codes.
- Identify surgical specialties as defined by payors that are consider different specialties.
- Understand what modifier should be used if billing critical care in the global period
Teri Romano, BSN, MBA, CPC, CMDP
Speaker and Consultant
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Teri Romano has over twenty-five years of consulting and teaching experience in the health care field. Ms. Romano works with physician groups and hospitals combining a background in clinical systems with solid approaches to operational and organizational problem solving.
Teri is co-developer and instructor for the national coding and reimbursement workshops sponsored by the American College of Surgeons, the Society for Vascular Surgery and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. She also provides on-site customized coding and reimbursement courses to physician and hospital groups, specializing in neurosurgery, general surgery, vascular surgery, and vein well as E/M and surgical case audits to assist physician groups in their compliance activities. In addition, she consults with vein, vascular, general surgical, and neurosurgical practices on practice management issues including service line development, revenue enhancement, staffing models, appeals management and expense reduction.
Read more about Teri HERE.
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