This in-depth 2-day home health-specific ICD-10 coding training will empower you with the knowledge you need to ensure success. You will learn ICD-10 coding guidelines and conventions and how this specifically applies to common home health scenarios. ICD-10 coding is challenging and opens up a new world of coding. With approximately 68,000 ICD-10 codes, there is a lot to learn. ICD-10 coding impacts reimbursement, risk adjustment, and impacts quality outcomes. Our expert faculty will teach you and practice with you on how you can document the correct ICD-10 diagnosis for optimal patient outcomes and compliance. You will learn specific documentation requirements for certain diseases and the correct ICD-10 codes. Attendees will attain needed knowledge regarding the implementation of ICD-10-CM. Topics of presentation include implementation timelines, coding guidelines and rules, guidance and breakdown of new alphabetical chapters, dissection of the ICD-10 code, common home health scenarios, selection of primary and secondary diagnoses, and effects the transition to ICD-10-CM will have in agency productivity and revenues. There's a lot riding on the accurate assignment of codes and this training ensures you and your agency are prepared for ICD-10 and the way it fundamentally changes the home health industry.

Learning Objectives

• Learn the difference between ICD-9 and ICD-10 code sets
• Learn ICD-10 coding guidelines and conventions and how this specifically applies to common home health scenarios and selection of primary and secondary diagnoses
• Learn and practice how to document the correct ICD-10 diagnosis for optimal patient outcomes and compliance
• Learn specific documentation requirements for certain diseases and the correct ICD-10 codes
• Learn all the ICD-10 regulations, implementation timelines, coding guidelines and rules
• Receive guidance on the new alphabetical chapters and dissection of the ICD-10 code
• Learn anticipated challenges that ICD-10-CM implementation will have on your agency and solutions to these challenges
• Learn how ensure that your agency is ready for ICD-10-CM Implementation
• Compare projected costs of implementation to real data of implementation in other settings

Cost

CE Credit

Participants will earn 14 contact hours of continuing education credits for attending this event.

Axxess Consult Inc. is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation.

Axxess is an approved provider of continuing education in the administration of home health agencies by the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services.