Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Philadelphia, PA.
Doubletree Hotel

Compliance & Clinical Documentation Improvement:
Speaking: Betty Bibbens, MD, CHC, C-CDI Spec, CPEHR, CPHIT, President & Chief Medical Officer, DocuComp LLC
Are You Ready for the RACs?

• Importance of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists within the inpatient environment
• Give examples of appropriate documentation of severity of illness that justifies consumption of resources
• What Recovery Audit Contractors are and how they are and will be impacting healthcare
• Methods in responding & appealing denials regarding quality of care issues that may be raised by third-party payers

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JustCoding.com: Welcome! However, Betty B. Bibbins, MD, CHC, CPEHR, CPHIT says that these initiatives are also an opportunity to bring organizational departments together toward ...

HCPro.com: Meet the challenges of MS-DRGs and POA head on However, Betty B. Bibbins, MD, CHC, CPEHR, CPHIT says that these initiatives are also an opportunity to capitalize upon, and bring organizational ...

January, 2007 - Medical Necessity
February, 2007 - Medical Necessity Part 2
March, 2007 - Present On Admission (POA) Part 1
April, 2007 - Present On Admission (POA) Part 2
May, 2007 - The Next Level of Coding: Will You Be Ready?

Visit DocuComp & DocuEd at our Vendors Booth: (Booth 214)
Mirage Hotel & Casino
June 23-26, 2008
Las Vegas, NV

Regarding our National Certification in Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists Program – Are you completely ready for MS-DRGs and truly ready for the RACs? Come and talk with us.

... and there are no options except to learn the new rules and to utilize them correctly-through knowledge and compliance," says Betty B. Bibbins, MD, ...
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Topic: Preparing for MS-DRG & POA: Clinical Documentation Improvement – It’s More Than Just Concurrent Coding
Speaking: Betty B. Bibbins, MD, CHC, C-CDI, CPEHR, CPHIT
May 7, 2008
Mystic Lake Casino & Resort, MN

Caesars Palace
May 8-9, 2008
Las Vegas, NV

Hilton Riverside New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
April 12-16, 2008 Presentation – “Developing Custom Documentation Forms: It’s Easier than you Think”
Speaking:
Larry Levine, Deputy Chief Compliance Officer, Howard University Health Sciences

Betty Bibbins, President & Chief Medical Officer, DocuComp LLC

March 26, 2008
Presented by Sue Muse, RHIA
Director, Clinical Documentation Improvement, Precyse Solutions

Betty Bibbins, MD, FACOG, CPEHR, CPHIT, CHC
CEO, DocuComp, LLC

Columbus, OH C-CDI Seminar January 23-25, 2008 Details

Orlando, FL C-CDI Seminar February 27-29 2008 Details

Annapolis, MD C-CDI Seminar March 12-14, 2008 Details

January 2008

October 1, 2007, marked the beginning of the largest change in Medicare’s DRG reimbursement system since its introduction in 1983. Add Medicare’s present on admission (POA) reporting initiative, which took effect on January 1, 2008, and hospitals suddenly face substantial new challenges. However, Betty B. Bibbins, MD, CHC, CPEHR, CPHIT says that these initiatives are also an opportunity to bring organizational departments together toward common goals and objectives.

Journal of Health Care Compliance, Vol.9, Number 6, Nov-Dec, 2007.

www.HCPRO.com, May 14, 2007
Topic: “Effective Compliance Training: Getting Clinician Buy-in for Documentation Improvement”

www.HCPRO.com, June, 2007
San Diego, CA.

Annual National Institute - The Healthcare Finance Conference 2007 Topic: “Eliminating Self Inflicted Medical Necessity Denials: Best Practice Initiatives and Real-World Examples”

Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers
Chicago, IL.
April 22-25, 2007

Presentation Topic: Communicating the New DRG System with your Physicians: Rise to the Compliance Challenge

Manchester Grand Hyatt
Exhibition: San Diego Convention Center
San Diego, California
June 24-27, 2007

Presentation Topic: Eliminating Self-Inflicted Medical Necessity Denials: Best Practice Initiatives and Real World Examples

HCPro Journal, August 2006
Betty B. Bibbins FACOG, CHC, CPEHR, CPHIT

Language differences can be one of the toughest hurdles to overcome when it comes to training physicians to comply with coding and billing regulations. Physicians are not always familiar with the differences between clinical and coding terms, nor are they always willing to accept the difference. Our experts, Stacie Buck, RHIA, CCS-P, LHRM, vice president of Southeast Radiology Management in Stuart, FL, and Betty Bibbins, MD, president and chief medical officer of DocuComp, a physician-owned medical records consulting group, say there are only two effective solutions to combat this serious problem: Either get a trainer that the physicians will respect, or let them learn the hard way.

JustCoding.com, November 20, 2006

Specificity in patient medical record diagnoses documentation governs reporting of severity of patient illness, justifies intensity of service, serves as a basis for quality of care/outcome studies, and demonstrates adherence to the movement toward “best practices of medicine.” The accurate capture of physician medical decision-making is predicated upon proper use of medical record documentation that translates into complete diagnoses through translation into a “cumbersome” ICD-9 classification system. Examples were given showing how specificity in medical record documentation improves communicating the patient’s severity-of-illness to 3rd party payers.

Renaissance Park 55 Hotel
San Francisco, CA
October 1-3, 2006

Presentation Topic:
Claims Denial Management: What Are Third Party Payers Really Telling You about
Your Documented Quality-of-Care and Compliance?

More information and online registration available at http://www.hcca-info.org

Caesar's Palace
Las Vegas, Nevada
April 23-26, 2006

Presentation Topic:
Practical Aspects: Working with your Physicians to Improve Documentation & Compliance in the Rural Hospital- Finding Your Champion Among your Attendings

Key Points:

1. Gain a greater understanding of what physicians are taught, and are not taught, about the documentation of clinical medicine.
2. Gain a greater understanding of why Physicians are "resistant" to Compliance rules & guidelines - and how to overcome it.
3. Recognize emerging regulatory trends regarding third party payers’ requirements for physician documentation in support of Inpatient Diagnosis.
4. Recognize the similarities, and the differences, between DRG documentation and Evaluation & Mgt. (E&M) documentation. What you don’t know can be impacting the effectiveness of your Documentation Compliance Program.
5. Learn methods in working with Attending Physicians to improve Documentation, Compliance, and Utilization.
6. Learn how to begin work with your Medical Staff to reduce third party denials that are due to lack of documentation.
7. Learn to identify and grow a Physician "Champion" within your Medical Staff no-matter what the size of your Staff.
8. Identify key compliance strategies in working for Documentation Compliance. (Including Physician peer-to-peer interaction strategies)