Documentation 200

Course overview

Hour 1 *Label the main driver is for "Medical Necessity", how and why you must communicate this to 3rd party payers. *List the foundation of coding and be able to apply pertinent ICD10 coding guidelines. *Discover how correct coding may dictate our strength to 3rd parties and have national implications for our profession. *Discuss critical questions of the benefits and risks of our Chiropractic diagnosis codes in the insurance industry. *Identify red flags, complicating factors, and have awareness of Risk management when documenting and coding. *Identify how insurance companies rank the importance of various diagnoses and its effect on claims' coverage and processing. Hour 2 *Apply critical ICD10 coding Guidelines, like sequencing, Excludes notes, and combination codes. *Recall how ICD10 categorizes common NMS diagnoses seen by the DC. *Appraise the differences between Medicare's coding guidelines for DC's and the ICD10 guidelines. *Explain Medicare's definition of medical necessity and produce correct documentation to support it by reviewing the NCD. *Solve the documentation issue that leads to incorrect diagnoses. *Analyze and print tables (slides) of coding to help you for clinic ASAP. *Apply the knowledge gained within a visit to correctly document the encounter's Assessment and diagnosis. *Apply critical thinking to diagnosing and coming up with an appropriate ICD10 code. Hour 3 *Review numerous printable tables that will expand your ICD10 knowledge base of NMS diagnoses. *Identify the differences in diagnosing, documenting, then coding numerous spinal disc disorders, spondylopathies and radiculopathies according to medical necessity and ICD10-CM's categorization. *Using clinical examples, discover and demonstrate the appropriate manner of documenting the evolution of changing diagnoses within a Plan. *Recognize, document, diagnose and appropriately pair examples of specific etiologies of NMS inflammation with an ICD10 code. Hour 4 *Record, diagnose and code various possibilities of types of the elusive ICD10-CM's Facet Syndrome, according to Dr. Shapiro. *Document and appropriately code for instabilities VS ligament laxity of spine and extremities. *Identify Kyphosis as a complicating factor to healing, then evaluate and code its types, areas and corresponding ICD10 codes. *Design a comprehensive list of diagnoses from an MVA, that may help a PI attorney with their demand letter.