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| MS-DRGs (Medicare Severity-Diagnostic Related Group) - Documentation Seminars |
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Physician-to-Physician |
MS-DRG Documentation for Surgeons
MS-DRG Documentation for Medical (Non-surgical) Practices
MS-DRG Documentation for the Hospitalist |
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Establishing YOUR Clinical Documentation Improvement Program with YOUR personnel – DocuComp LLC will teach you how! |
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Working with Case Managers to Work with Physicians regarding MS-DRG Documentation |
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Working with HIMs (Coders) to Work with Physicians regarding MS-DRG Documentation |
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Are your Physicians and HIMs (Coders) Ready for Present-On-Admission (POA)? DocuComp LLC can make them ready! |
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Hospitalists’ Documentation – Impacting Your Hospital from Two Directions! Is it helping or hurting your bottom line? |
| Hospitalist’ documentation is the sole basis for coding/billing for Evaluation & Management (E&M), as well as DRG services provided for Inpatients. DocuComp can determine your degree of capturing these important areas of revenue. |
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Documentation for the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) – What Physicians Don’t Know can Hurt Your Hospital! |
| As we progress into the future of healthcare through evolution of the EMR, Physicians need to utilize explicit documentation of patient care. Computers are “information in—information out” or “junk in-junk out’ or “poor documentation in – nothing out”. If Physician Inpatient & Outpatient documentation does not contain the logic and appropriate severity-of-illness to capture the justification for services, then HOSPITALS LOSE for the services provided. Help reduce the stress that goes along with frustration of “the unknown” or “the changing environment”. Allow DocuComp LLC to help teach Attendings & Hospitalists the keys to appropriate documentation – they win, YOU WIN! |
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Documentation Updates for the Internist. |
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Documentation Updates for the Cardiologist |
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Documentation Updates for the Pulmonologist |
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Documentation Updates for the Nephrologist |
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Documentation Updates for the Family Practitioner |
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Documentation Updates for………..(You get the picture!) |
| Third-party payers (including Medicare) are frequently changing the documentation “rules” that determine reimbursements. Attending Physicians keep up to date on the clinical side of medicine. However, the documentation side of medicine has not (historically) been emphasized in medical schools or residency programs. Clinically ill patients (i.e. –Severe Urosepsis) are classified as a simple “Urinary Tract Infection” (UTI). However if “UTI with Sepsis” is appropriately documented, there is a significant increase in reimbursement - because of the (justified) greater utilization of services to manage the documented greater severity of illness. DocuComp helps Attending Physicians and Hospitalists to improve documentation of clinical status. |
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Physician Documentation for Evaluation & Management (E&M) Services versus Documentation for DRG Services - Do You Know How They Differ? It CAN Cost You, and Your Hospital, a Bundle! |
| There can be 180 degrees of difference between Provider E&M and DRG documentation. Let DocuComp LLC train your Medical Staff in the differences. Most may know about E&M documentation (since this is the basis for Office & Physician Service Billings). VERY FEW know about DRG documentation (because this is the sole basis for Inpatient Hospital billings). This can significantly decrease the revenues that Hospitals are justly due. |
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Are Surgeons Capturing the Co-morbid Conditions That Can Determine Which Diagnostic Related Group (DRG) as assigned? |
| Non-capture of these conditions can negatively impact revenues that hospitals are entitled to. DocuComp LLC can work with Attending Physicians and Hospitalists to capture the appropriate medical information. |
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Compliance is NOT a Four Letter Word! |
| DocuComp works with Attending Physicians (and Governing Boards/Administrators) to understand the history behind Compliance, and how we got to where we are today. We don’t advocate “rolling over and playing dead”, however we do help to understand the “rules” that relate to Healthcare. Compliance is here to stay whether we want it or not and DocuComp helps to take the stress out of the “unknown”. DocuComp LLC works! |
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Emergency Departments – Where Documentation of Inpatient Care Usually Starts. |
| ED Physicians attend many patients who present at their greatest “severity” (state of illness). DocuComp LLC education can improve capture of these severity of illness’, and improve (from onset) justification for utilization of services. |
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Consumer Profiling of Physicians – Where Do YOU Rate? |
| DocuComp LLC education helps Physicians to document the difference between pre-existing conditions that “flare up” while hospitalized, co-morbid conditions, and complications of treatment. DocuComp LLC can provide Documentation and Coding Audits for entire (or selected) Medical Staff members. Let DocuComp LLC help you to help Medical Staffs. |
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Surgeon’s Documentation – The Hospital Record Needs to Say more than: “Pt. Came In, Had Surgery, and Went Home” |
| Why it is important for surgeons to explicitly document the complete care provided inpatients. It can only help! |
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Appealing Denials - It is more that just a Beautiful River in Egypt! |
| When reimbursement is denied, either partially or completely, for hospital care—Everyone suffers financially. Providers and Facilities must maintain financial viability in order to continue to be a stable component within the community. Have DocuComp review your Third Party Payer Denials and determine if there is a risk pattern for those denials. DocuComp LLC can assist you in improving the deficits and appropriate documentation that can impact your future. Let us do a Risk Management Audit. How much more do you have to lose? |
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Outpatient Observation Status (OOS) – There Really ARE Ways for Attendings and Hospitalists to Understand & Utilize OOS |
| Confused about the ever-changing rules on OOS? Admissions being denied? DocuComp LLC can help you to get a grip on OOS! |
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Getting Your Share of the Healthcare Pie - The Business of Medicine and it's Changing Impact on the Hospital & Physician Professional Relationship |
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Working with Stress in the Healthcare Workplace |
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Why Coders Ask “Doctor, Do You Mean What You Are Saying In the Chart?” |
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Coders have very strict rules that they have to follow when coding medical record charts. The rules of Coding are NOT (necessarily) the same rules as Physicians use for clinical documentation. If there are “stressors” present between Medical Staff and Medical Records, let DocuComp LLC mediate. We help all involved to understand “the other side”. We are all in this together. Let’s act like it! DocuComp provides Coder education, as well as Physician education regarding the basics of Coding. Let’s walk a mile in each other’s shoes – it really makes a difference!
Call DocuComp LLC to evaluate how we can work together to improve your bottom line. All of DocuComp LLC programs are presented peer-to-peer,Physician-to-Physician.
Let us organize a Presentation especially for your needs.
Length of Presentations can be scheduled for any length of time, including a series of presentations to an onsite/offsite Retreat.
- Medical Staff Series Presentations
- Grand Rounds Presentations
- Medical & Surgical Departmental Meeting Series
- Inpatient E&M Chart Audits
- Inpatient DRG Chart Audits
- Inpatient and APC Coding Audits
- Physician Documentation Audits
- Documentation Seminars (and Seminar Series) for Hospitalist Programs
- Compliance Programs- Fraud & Abuse, HIPAA, Corporate Integrity Agreements
- Seminars in Preparation for the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Electronic Health Records (EHR)
- Physician Profile Evaluations
- Individual Physician-to-Physician Documentation Training
- Inpatient Third Party Payer Denial Evaluations and Educations
- Risk Management Analysis – Where Do You Stand?
- Outpatient Observation Status (OOS) Reviews, Evaluation & Impact
- Emergency Dept. ICD-9-CM and E&M Documentation Review & Analysis
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