DRG Update for 2012

Know what is deleted, modified, and added in DRG for the year 2012, and compliance-related coding, billing and chargemaster including RACs.

 Join Dr. Duanne Abbey:

• To briefly review DRGs in general.
• To review MS-DRG changes.
• To discuss ICD-9 changes in conjunction with MS-DRGs.
• To delineate coding and documentation issues including the offsets.
• To review financial changes with MS-DRGs.
• To discuss issues such as readmission reduction.
• To explain the ongoing issue of the 3-Day Payment window and hospital acquired conditions.

And:

• Brief Review of DRGs and MS-DRGs
  
  • CCs and MCCs
  • DRG Categories
  • DRG Grouping and ICD-9 Coding
  • Calculation of MS-DRG Weights
  • Compliance Issues and Reports
• Payment Updates
  • Standardized Amounts
  • New Technology
  • Changes In MS-DRG Weights
  • Hospital Acquired Conditions
  • Wage Index Calculations
  • Outlier Payments
  • Post-Acute Care Transfers
• MS-DRG Changes
  • New MS-DRGs
  • Coding Issues
  • Documentation and Coding Adjustments
  • CC and MCC Lists
  • Review of New ICD-9-CM Procedure Codes
  • MS-DRG Weight Changes
• Quality of Care
  • Readmission Reductions
  • Hospital Value-Based Purchasing
  • Inpatient Quality Reporting
  • Hospital Acquired Conditions
• Policy Issues
  • 3-Day Payment Window
  • ESRD
  • Hospice Discharges
  • Under Arrangements
  • GME Cap
• Sources for Further Information

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Who should attend? Inpatient Coding Personnel, Coding, Billing and Claims Transaction Personnel, Internal Auditing Personnel, Financial and Compliance Personnel, Physicians and Other Interested Personnel.

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