Thursday, August 22; 1:30-3pm ET
Target Audience: Medical coders, physicians, physician office staff, nurses and other non-physician practitioners, provider billing staff, health records staff, vendors, educators, system maintainers, laboratories, and all Medicare providers
Are you ready to transition to ICD-10 on October 1, 2014? Join us for a keynote presentation on ICD-10 basics by Sue Bowman from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), along with an implementation update by CMS. A question and answer session will follow the presentation.
Agenda:
- Benefits of ICD-10
- Similarities and differences from ICD-9
- Coding
- Basics of finding a diagnosis code
- Placeholder "x"
- Unspecified codes
- External cause of injury codes
- Type of encounter
- Training needs and timelines
- Resources for coding and training
- National implementation issues
Continuing education credit may be awarded for participation in certain MLN Connects Calls. Visit the Continuing Education Credit Information web page to learn more.
