Thursday, November 24, 2011

ICD-10: The Key to a Successful Transition

One-day training workshops for Colorado CAHs & Rural Hospitals
  • February 21, 2012 - location tbd
  • February 22, 2012 - CRHC Office – Aurora, CO
  • February 23, 2012 - location tbd
Workshop Objectives:
  • Demonstrate the conversion from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10 for the three most common inpatient diagnostic  cases for all short term and acute care and critical access hospitals
  • Gain an understanding of the productivity and documentation issues in the conversion
  • Gain an understanding of the budget dollars needed to be incorporated into the hospital’s strategic plan
  • Planning for your transition: budget, training, staffing, etc.
 Workshop Includes:
  • Printed course materials
  • 6 hours of CEUs recognized by the AAPC and ARHPC for each participant
  • 1 year membership to the Association of Rural Health Professional Coders (ARHPC) for each participant – i.e. access to consultants/specialists to answer your questions
Who Should Attend:
Everyone throughout the hospital who needs to know about the changes from ICD-9 to ICD-10 and the impacts it can have on your organization


  • FY2011 SHIP grant participants: FREE (unlimited number of attendees)




  • Non-SHIP hospitals/CRHC Members: $49 per attendee




  • Non-SHIP hospitals/Non-CRHC Members: $99 per attendee



  • For more information – contact Danette Swanson; 303-577-0357; ds@coruralhealth.org
    To register – contact Courtnay Ryan; 303-309-6807; cr@coruralhealth.org
    CRHC is the recipient of the Federal HRSA Small Rural Hospital Improvement Program (SHIP) Grant: CFDA 93.301;
    Award 6 H3HRH00038-10-01