Coding, OASIS & Documentation QA Virtual Boot Camp

Virtual: October 17 — 18, 2023

Back by popular demand! Unable to attend this special pre-conference track during the 2023 Home Health Coding Summit in Phoenix? Or were you there and wishing you had chance to share these critical sessions with your team? Well, here’s your chance!

Join us October 17-18, 2023, for this special virtual event featuring the Coding, OASIS, & Documentation QA Boot Camp recorded live during the 2023 Home Health Coding Summit.

This is your opportunity to get expert training and demonstrate to your future and current employer that you are competent and efficient in OASIS, Coding, & Documentation QA. A 50-question post-test will be administered after the event, and a certificate of competency delivered once the post-test is passed.

Accurate coding has become an essential component of defending a medical record. And the role of the seasoned HCS-D certified coder has expanded to include OASIS review—an emerging job function.

This essential review includes not just knowing how to select accurate diagnosis codes and correct OASIS responses. As a coding and OASIS reviewer, you must also know what’s required for compliant face-to-face encounter documentation, how to check that planned interventions support the primary need for skilled care and the primary and secondary diagnoses, and how the data reported in the OASIS matches up to documentation elsewhere in the record.

Compliant documentation demonstrates eligibility, identifies the skilled care your patients require, and ensures ethical reimbursement. Poor documentation can undermine all the work your agency does to provide care for patients.

Plus, as an added benefit attendees will be able to access this on-demand virtual for up to 60 days.

Coding, OASIS & Documentation QA Virtual Boot Camp

Agenda

*All Times are Eastern

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

12:00 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.
Get Set: Accurate Coding Begins at Intake
Brandi Whitemyer, RN, CDIP, COS-C, HCS-D, HCS-O, Consultant, Home Health and Hospice Coding Expert
A sound intake process builds the foundation for quality care and airtight documentation, which helps prevent ADRs and denied claims. This session will provide the framework for establishing such a process, including how to understand what information should be gathered, establish homebound status, determine eligibility and coverage, and secure compliant start of care and referral orders. It will also cover best practices for following a compliant query process, including how to write a compliant query, how to query clinicians and providers, and how to track and analyze query data.

1:50 p.m. – 2:55 p.m.
Check All the Boxes: What You Need for a Compliant Face-to-Face
Brandi Whitemyer, RN, CDIP, COS-C, HCS-D, HCS-O, Consultant, Home Health and Hospice Coding Expert
Securing documentation of a valid face-to-face (F2F) encounter is an essential part of establishing eligibility. If the F2F documentation doesn’t cover all the requirements, even the most accurate diagnosis coding and OASIS documentation won’t prevent a claim denial. This session will help you ensure each F2F covers all the bases, including timing, performing practitioner, supporting documentation, homebound status, encounter certification, and signature requirements.

Tools: F2F encounter note; F2F info from CMS

3:05 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Connect the Dots: Plan of Care Review and Diagnosis Coding
Brandi Whitemyer, RN, CDIP, COS-C, HCS-D, HCS-O, Consultant, Home Health and Hospice Coding Expert
If the plan of care (POC) doesn’t align with other documentation and the diagnosis codes you report, the claim won’t stand up under scrutiny. Understand how the POC relates to diagnosis coding and how to make sure documentation meets the mark. Learn how to conduct a thorough POC review, including support for diagnoses not on the F2F, connection of interventions and diagnoses, and defensible diagnosis code sequencing.

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Tie It All Together: Documentation That Gets the Story Right
Jill Dyer, BSN, RN, HCS-D, HCS-O, Consultant, JID Consulting and Coding
Thorough coding and OASIS review includes reconciling documentation from several sources. If all the documentation doesn’t tell the same story, your claims could be jeopardized. Learn what should be included in patient-specific visit documentation, what needs to match across documentation sources, and what to do when there are inconsistencies between the following: referral order/F2F, F2F/assessment findings/focus of care, assessment and POC/interventions/goals, and diagnoses/skilled interventions.

1:25 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Build Your OASIS & Coding Review Checklist
Jill Dyer, BSN, RN, HCS-D, HCS-O, Consultant, JID Consulting and Coding
A strong coding & OASIS review process will ensure you catch issues before they cause ADRs and claim denials. Learn best practices for doing this work and for adapting to the changing focus of outside reviewers. We’ll cover the following:

• What should be on your checklist as you do a review?
• What information is relevant?
• What are the current issues identified under medical review?
• How should you organize your work?
• What’s a sound process for coding and OASIS review?
• How do you monitor your review program in real time?
• How should you approach quality assurance?
• How does care planning factor in?
• How can you assure skill and medical necessity align with diagnoses?

Tool: OASIS & coding review checklist

— Agenda subject to change —

Coding, OASIS & Documentation QA Virtual Boot Camp

Speakers

Jill Dyer, BSN, RN, HCS-D, HCS-O, consultant at JID Consulting and Coding, is a home healthcare expert with experience in clinical quality assurance, regulatory compliance, and coding compliance. Her previous experience includes starting a home health agency, where she served as the co-owner and administrator for nearly 10 years, growing the agency to 350+ patients. With 30+ years of nursing experience, Dyer has held positions that include home health director of nursing, hospital staff nurse, cardiac rehabilitation nurse, and nurse /teacher. Since the sale of her agency she has focused on education, coding, and auditing, delivering webinars and on-site education/evaluation on subjects including OASIS, ICD-10 coding, compliance, back-office efficiency. and Conditions of Participation.
Brandi Whitemyer, RN, CDIP, COS-C, HCS-D, HCS-O, has expertise in ICD-10 coding, post-acute billing, and coding education, along with OASIS and outcomes management. She has more than 18 years of experience in post-acute healthcare as the previous owner of a full-service coding and consulting company, along with experience in the development of coding, billing/revenue cycle, and clinical education resources for post-acute care. Whitemyer has worked for the past 12 years as a consultant and home health and hospice coding expert, providing agencies nationally with survey compliance, medical reviews and appeals of Medicare denials, corrective action plans, policy development, revenue cycle and billing compliance management, coding and quality assurance processes, and coding and OASIS education. She has also contributed to and created multiple print and electronic product resources focused on coding, billing, quality management, and clinical best practices, including multiple DecisionHealth publications. Whitemyer is a member of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the Association of Home Care Coding & Compliance (AHCC).

Coding, OASIS & Documentation QA Virtual Boot Camp

Pricing

Retail price: $399.00
AHCC Membership price: $359.00

Group pricing is as follows:

• 2–10 attendees = each attendee receives 10% off retail price
• 11–15 attendees = each attendee receives 15% off retail price
• 16–20 attendees = each attendee receives 20% off retail price
• 21+ attendees = each attendee receives 25% off retail price

Plus, as an added benefit attendees will be able to access this on-demand virtual for up to 60 days.

Coding, OASIS & Documentation QA Virtual Boot Camp

Continuing Education

ANCC
HCPro is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

6.25 contact hours for nurses are available for this activity.

BMSC
This program is preapproved by the Board of Medical Specialty Coding & Compliance (BMSC) for the following CEUs: Preconference: 6 HCS-D, 6 HCS-O, 6 HCS-C CEU’s.

If you’re interested in becoming credentialed (HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-O), learn more here.