How Compliant Are Your Coding Queries?

Why Should You Attend:

This informational webinar will provide information on the following:

• Background of physician queries
• How to develop compliant query templates
• Apply coding query best practices
• Identify and prevent risk areas and common errors related to coding queries that may impact your health care organization’s revenue cycle
• Review AHIMA Practice Briefs applicable to coding and CDI queries

Knowing the various references and coding query resources will guide us to quality supporting clinical documentation and accurate coding. We will review various query templates and case examples while applying coding conventions, guidelines, query toolkits and many more.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Learn and understand the AHIMA Practice Briefs applicable to inpatient and outpatient coding queries
• Identify compliant query opportunities with supporting rationale
• Review query case examples with common documentation and coding issues
• Obtain key coding query best practices and next steps
• Review coding query references, resources and toolkits
• Question and Answer session

Who Will Benefit:

• Hospital and Outpatient Coding Staff
• CDI Staff
• Coding Supervisors
• Managers
• Directors
• Auditors
• Clinicians and Coding Compliance Staff

Victoria M. Hernandez
Founder, Integrity Coding Solutions

Victoria is an RHIA (Registered Health Information Administrator), a Clinical Documentation Improvement Practitioner (CDIP), Certified Coding Specialist (CCS), a Certified Coding Specialist Physician-Based (CCS-P) and an AHIMA-Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer with over 24 years’ experience in the healthcare field.

Victoria is the Founder of a coding, auditing and CDI company called Integrity Coding Solutions. Prior to starting her company, she was the Regional Director of Coding Audit and Education for a California-based integrated healthcare delivery system covering 21 facilities with 160+ coders and CDI staff. She specialized in providing initial and on-going coding and CDI education, specialty-specific training, department presentations and one-on-one feedback to coding, CDI staff, physicians, local, regional and national leadership.

In her volunteer role, Victoria serves as Component State Association (CSA) HIM Awareness Coordinator for California (CHIA), 2016 AHIMA’s Alternate Delegate for California Health Information Association (SVHIA). She also served as an AHIMA CDIP Exam Item Writer in from 2015-208.

Victoria is passionate about staying involved and working collaboratively in promoting high standards and integrity of HIM coding practice. She believes in the end that “quality data with integrity will promote and help achieve the best healthcare for all patients”.

Topic Background:

Does your organization have effective and compliant coding queries? Are you clear on the “dos” and “don’ts” when it comes to coding and Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) queries? Have you mastered the concepts of the query rules, steps, process, timing and legal and operational impact of non-compliance?

It is important to understand the guidelines and application of best practices in the coding and CDI query process. This function applies to all healthcare settings impacting quality documentation, medical necessity, risk management, data analytics and proper billing, just to name a few.

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