Webinar: Clinical documentation under MS-DRGs

By Michael Evans

Succeeding with MS-DRGs begins with complete and accurate clinical documentation. To learn more about the Final Rule’s ramifications on documentation and coding, I invite you to attend my Clinical Documentation under MS-DRGs webinar.

I'll discuss how the proposed MS-DRG methodology and its associated ICD-9-CM Diagnosis and Procedure codes will impact the hospital, medical staff, case management, and coding staff. You'll learn the changes in medical documentation and coding productivity required by the CMS FY2008 Final Rule. Who should attend this webinar? Medical staff executives, chief financial officers, case management staff, HIM coding professionals, and HIM inpatient coders.

This session emphasizes:

• Severity-adjusted DRG system
• DRG classification changes
• Revisions to the CC list
• Hospital-acquired conditions
• Reporting hospital-specific quality data
• Steps in defining clinical documentation improvement initiatives
• Creating medical staff involvement, a MUST for hospital success

Presented by Michael Evans, MS, RHIA, CCS, manager, consulting services, Ingenix
Dates: Sept. 11, 11 a.m. ET; Sept. 13, 3 p.m. ET
Cost $179 per phone line -- be sure to set up a conference room and invite anyone you think needs to hear the contents of this webinar.

Click here for details and to register.