You’ve been given more time to prepare for ICD-10 and guarantee that your agency is ready for the transition.

Continue to move forward with your ICD-10 training now to ensure you have the proper amount of time to learn and practice.

Tackle ICD-10 with a 6-part webinar series designed to get your entire agency ready for this colossal shift. From budgeting to coding to documentation, our expert line-up of speakers will help you overcome the transitional roadblocks that are standing in the way of your agency’s success.

Part 1: Build a budget and assess cash flow implications

Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 | 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET

Don’t set yourself up for budget shortfalls that will strain your ability to transition to ICD-10 in a timely manner. Learn how to budget properly for ICD-10 and assess the impact on your agency’s cash flow. During this training, home health financial expert Mark Sharp will show you how to come up with a cost-efficient transition plan.

BONUS TOOL: Gap analysis plan

Part 2: Assess software readiness & assign ICD-10 transition teams

Wednesday, Mar. 5, 2014 | 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET

During this training, home health operations expert Aaron Little provides tips and strategies to help your agency communicate with vendors to ensure software system readiness, ensure your staff and software will be able to follow dual coding timelines and designate an ICD-10 transition team.

Part 3: Become an expert in the ICD-10 conventions and guidelines

Thursday, Apr. 3, 2014 | 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET

In this training, ICD-10 coding expert Trish Twombly will take you through the ICD-10 coding conventions and guidelines, including the use of laterality, Excludes notes, unspecified codes, sequelae, 7th digit placeholders and 7th digit boxes, as well as the differences in sequencing guidelines of certain diseases, such as anemia in neoplastic disease and its therapies.

BONUS TOOL: ICD-10 Conventions & Guidelines Grid

Part 4: Master wound coding in ICD-10

Tuesday, Apr. 22, 2014 | 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET

ICD-10 coding expert Ann Rambusch explains the differences in coding pressure ulcers, surgical wounds, including complicated and non-healing surgical wounds, lower extremity non-pressure chronic ulcers and trauma wounds. Hint: ICD-10 requires additional codes to identify location and severity of lower extremity ulcers, such as stasis ulcers, but fewer codes are necessary when assigning pressure ulcers.

BONUS TOOL: ICD-10 Pressure Ulcer Respond Grid

Part 5: Properly report ICD-10 diabetes & late effects codes

Tuesday, May 6, 2014 | 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET

Learn from ICD-10 coding expert Brandi Whitemyer how to choose the right ICD-10 diabetes codes, as you’ll be selecting the correct code from among five code categories instead of the two code categories (249 and 250) you use now. She’ll walk you through how to code late effects in ICD-10, how to apply the 7th character to indicate sequela, and how to code dominant vs. non-dominant.

BONUS TOOLS: Diabetes ICD-10 crosswalk, ICD-10 Sequelae Decision Tree and ICD-10 Sequelae Quick Reference Guide

Part 6: Meet ICD-10 documentation standards, prevent audits & denials

Thursday, May 29, 2014 | 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET

In ICD-10, the role of home health clinicians will change as their documentation will require more specificity and detail. In this training, you will learn how to bolster documentation to meet the increased level of detail required, document common home health diagnoses and glean more specific information from physicians and referral sources.

BONUS TOOLS: Physician query tool to get better documentation, and audit tool for common home health diagnoses.

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