Length: 16 hours
CEUs: 16 HCS-D CEUs

With the Beginner’s Boot Camp, you’ll get practice coding common scenarios and an introduction to decision-making skills that allows you to code with greater ease, in less time and with higher specificity with this audio CD and companion workbook. First, you’ll get a tour through your coding book and general guidelines for the foundation that you need. Then, you’ll:

• Relationship of coding, PPS, OASIS and billing
• Navigate the volumes – formatting and language clues that indicate the correct codes
• Basic rules, terms, specificity, conventions and punctuations
• Primary and secondary diagnoses
• Manifestation special cases and rules
• Late effects sequencing
• Case-mix and M0246/basics of sequencing and how V codes interact

After that, you’ll learn the general rules, most-often used codes and must-know information to select the appropriate, most specific codes for:

• Diabetes
• Wounds
• Fractures
• HTN, CHF HF, MI subsequent care, CVA
• Therapy codes
• Focus on diagnosis and the use of case-mix
• Case-mix and M0246/basics of sequencing and how V codes interact
• V codes

This is the time to apply critical thinking and hone your coding skills, with hands-on examples and coding opportunities laced throughout the audio CD and companion workbook you’ll receive with Beyond the Basics. First, you’ll get the must-knows of PPS oding changes and learn why they are important. Then, you’ll get:

• Review of sequencing and manifestations and the concept of M0245 – so crucial to understanding M0246
• In-depth look at M0246
• Co-morbidities and coding
• Case-mix diagnosis category explanations and applications
• Overview of the importance of therapy
• Manifestation, sequencing and late effects issues

Then you’ll get an in-Depth Look At The Most Common (And Commonly Miscoded) Diagnoses in Home Health, like circulatory issues, V Codes, Diabetes, wounds, fractures, neoplasms and more!

For the OASIS Workshop audio CD and workbook, please click here.