Role-playing and interactive exercises illustrate how to do the full assessment properly for your agency’s benefit.
Pre-conference Workshops
Monday, August 11Preconference I: The Complete Assessment
An accurate assessment is your surest way to correct coding, accurate OASIS and a true picture of the patient’s health. In the half-day, you’ll learn:
- A solid strategy to improve data gathering.
- Tips to review assessments to pick out clues to coding.
- How to improve your assessment and get the proper answers on your OASIS.
Schedule:
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm — Registration & Materials Distribution
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm — Session (refreshment break and Q&A)
Great for clinicians, non-clinicians and administrators
trying to get a handle on how coding, outcomes and
OASIS can work together!
Preconference II: Beginner’s Coding Boot Camp
An intensive coding basics workshop designed to teach and/or
reinforce your understanding of the steps to accurate diagnosis
coding. You’ll spend the day:
Navigating the ICD-9 Volumes – formatting
and language clues that indicate the correct codes, key terms, conventions
and punctuation, the basics of sequencing, how V codes interact
and more.
Working through scenario-based exercises with expert
instruction on the general rules for selecting the most appropriate
codes for diabetes, wounds, fractures and more!
Schedule:
7:30 am – 8:30 am — Registration & Materials
Distribution (Continental Breakfast provided)
8:30 am –12:15
pm — Morning Sessions (refreshment break and Q&A)
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm — Lunch (provided)
1:15 pm – 4:30 pm — Afternoon Sessions (refreshment break
and Q&A)
Graduate from the Boot Camp and you’ll code with greater
ease
and more confidence, in less time and with higher specificity.
Each
session includes coding work tools, checklists, official source
documentation and other aids to use back at your agency. Each
day’s program ends with a ready-made
15-minute in-service on must-know coding topics.
Main Conference
Tuesday, August 12
PPS, Therapy, Neoplasms, M0246, Co-morbidities and more
7:30
am – 8:30 am — Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 am – 12:30 pm — Morning Sessions (refreshment
break)
12:30 pm – 1:45 pm — Lunch (provided)
1:45 pm – 4:00
pm — Afternoon Sessions (refreshment break)
4:00 pm – 4
:15 pm — 15-minute in-service
4:15 pm – 4:45 pm — Q&A
panel with speakers of the day
Learn what the
pros know about the impact of PPS 2008 now – and what
CMS says about PPS changes going forward.
Wednesday, August 13
Wounds, V Codes, Diabetes, Circulatory Disorders
7:30 am – 8:30 am — Continental Breakfast
8:30 am – 11:00 am — Morning Sessions (refreshment break)
11:00 am – 11:30 am — Q&A Panel with Wound Presenters
11:30 am – 12:45 pm — Lunch (provided)
12:45 pm – 4:15 pm — Afternoon Sessions (refreshment break)
4:15 pm – 4:30 pm — 15-minute in-service for each track
4:30 pm – 4:45 pm — Q&A panel for each track
The chance to network and work with your educator and coders
of similar skill-level on specific scenarios. Choose from
Beginner or Experienced Coder Tracks in the afternoon.
Thursday, August 14
Amputations, Complications, Official Sources, Myth-Busting, Signs & Symptoms
7:30 am – 8:30 am — Continental Breakfast
7:30 am – 8:30 am — AHCC Members-only Breakfast
8:30 am – 11:30 am — Morning Sessions (refreshment break)
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm — Lunch (provided)
1:30 pm – 4:00 pm — Afternoon Sessions (refreshment break)
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm — Q&A panel
4:30 pm — Summit Adjourns
The program ends with a unique wrap-up that pulls it all together – so
you take home a comprehensive set of lessons learned.
