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Home Health Risk Adjustment and Your Coding

Home Health Risk Adjustment and Your Coding

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Event Information

Product format	Pre Recorded Event
Presenter	Tricia A. Twombly, BSN, RN, HCS-D, HCS-O, COS-C, CHCE
Conference Date	Thursday, January 14, 2010
Length	60 Minutes

Product Description

Risk adjustment will be a crucial for home health in a 'pay for performance' environment.

Join home health and coding expert, Tricia A. Twombly BSN RN HCS-D, CHCE, for this 1-hour audio session where she will give you the insight you need to connect your coding to Outcome Based Quality Improvements (OBQI).

Get the scoop on why OASIS items M1020/M1022/M1024 impact your agency’s outcome data through risk adjustment

Highlights of this session include:

Zoom in on exactly what risk adjustment is.
What is case mix in the home health and how does it impact risk adjustment and OBQI?
Tricia gets to the heart of the matter - What, exactly, is a home health outcome?
Symptom control ratings and how they impact home health outcomes.
Get into the nitty-gritty of the process for choosing risk factors.
Find out which code classifications have codes that affect risk adjustment.

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About the Speaker

Tricia A. Twombly, BSN, RN, HCS-D, HCS-O, COS-C, CHCE, AHIMA Approved ICD-10 CM Trainer, brings over 23 years of home care experience to her role as senior education consultant and coding specialist for Foundation Management Services. She serves as Advising Editor for the 2011 Home Health ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Coding Manual and is a technical reviewer for both the Diagnosis Coding Pro journal and the on-line education courses for the Board of Medical Specialty Coding. Her interviews and articles can be read in Home Care Coding Expert, Diagnosis Coding Pro, Home Health ICD-9 Alert, and Homecare Outcomes.
She has presented coding education on behalf of Creative Solutions, Eli Research, Decision Health, Board of Medical Specialty Coding, HealthWare Corporation, Texas Association of Home Care, Oklahoma Association of Home Care, Southwest Regional Home Care Association, and the Missouri Alliance for Home Care. Her White Paper entitled, “The Advantages of Outsourcing Coding” published by Decision Health on December 1, 2010 can be accessed on line. As the Director of ‘Coding to Go’, Tricia manages a thriving nationwide home health coding service for Foundation Management Services.