In this session expert Leonta Williams will cover some of the most important documentation, coding and billing requirements for provider services in the hospital setting. She will also provide you with proven and step-by-step tactics to improve your overall E/M inpatient accuracy and reimbursement, while making sure that you don’t trigger any CMS tripwires.

Learning Objectives:

1. Know the differences between the outpatient and inpatient guidelines when selecting principal and secondary diagnoses
2. Determine when you can bill rounding based on time instead of documentation and unravel unit/floor time-based coding requirements to capture all possible revenue
3. Capture all prolonged services time to ethically maximize your payup
4. Prevent denials for patients who are admitted and discharged on the same day
5. Uncover hidden observation care documentation terms that lead to claim approval
6. Get your provider paid for concurrent services provided to inpatient patients
7. Ensure clean claims for patient transfers and inpatient consultations
8. Learn how to bill for advanced care planning discussions

Areas Covered in the Session:

1. Initial Hospital Visit code requirements
2. Subsequent Hospital Care code requirement
3. Hospital Consultation code requirements
4. Critical Care code requirements
5. Observation Care code requirements
6. Prolonged Service code requirements
7. Hospital Discharge Day Management code requirements
8. Diagnosis Coding for the Inpatient stay