Description: Accurate coding is crucial for proper reimbursement and compliance in the healthcare industry. This session, "Think Like an Auditor: Catch Common Coding Mistakes Before They Are Made," is designed to help healthcare and coding professionals identify and prevent common coding errors. Frequent mistakes will be discussed, such as incorrect modifier use, unbundling, upcoding, downcoding, diagnosis linkage, outdated codes, and more. This fast-paced session aims to equip coders, billers, managers, and providers with awareness and knowledge to enhance coding accuracy, reduce denials, and ensure coding compliance.

Objectives

• Identify and prevent common coding errors before they happen!
• Detect incorrect "unbundling" of services prior to claim submission
• Recognize "suspicious" modifier usage in code combinations
• Collaborate with others to ensure clean claim submission and resubmissions

Webinar Date: This was presented as part of OHIMA's 2025 Virtual Coding Seminar that was held on September 19, 2025.
Duration: 1 hour

Speaker: Deborah Grider, CPC, CPC-I, CPC-P, COC, CEMC, CPMA, CCS-P, CDIP, is a nationally sought-after leader in the industry and is passionate about assisting physicians and hospitals in improving their coding, documentation, and business operations to maintain compliance and improve revenue. She will go above and beyond to help industry leaders, physicians, and others achieve excellence. Her motto is “documentation excellence is the key to improving revenue”. Deborah brings over forty years of healthcare industry experience as a practice administrator, medical record auditor, clinical documentation improvement practitioner, as well as a sought-after speaker and educator. She has worked with a variety of medical specialties. She works with physicians, hospitals, and outpatient facilities both small and large and provides practice assessments, revenue cycle guidance, coding, auditing, CDI development, education, and project management. She also provides litigation support to attorneys nationally on behalf of their physician and health-system clients. Deborah combines teaching with practical advice on coding and revenue cycle issues to many national organizations. She has numerous books and publishing credits and has developed coding program curriculum for the American Academy of Professional Coders, Indiana University Health, and Martin University in Indianapolis. In addition to her work at KZA, Deborah was a Senior Manager of Revenue Cycle at Blue and Co., LLC, where she oversaw the consulting division for physician services and worked closely with hospitals and hospital-owned physician groups, assisting with coding reviews, practice operations, ICD-10 implementation, and consulting. She has held the role of Vice President of Strategic Development and then President of the American Academy of Professional Coders, where she oversaw the association operations. She owned her own full-service consulting firm for twelve years, leading her team to provide coding, auditing, and revenue cycle guidance to hospitals and physician groups. Prior to entering consulting, she was a practice administrator at IU Health. Deborah has a B.A. in Business Administration from Indiana University. She holds multiple coding, auditing, and clinical documentation credentials. She currently serves on the ICD-10 Monitor Editorial Board and Indiana Health Information Management Association Executive Board of Directors as a delegate. She is the past president of the Indiana Health Information Management Association and the past president of the American Academy of Professional Coders National Advisory Board and served on the board for 7 years. Deborah has served on the CPT Editorial panel, the editorial board of Contexo Media, and currently serves on the editorial board of ICD-10 Monitor. She is the 2017 IHIMA Professional Achievement and the 2017 AHIMA Literacy Legacy Award recipient.

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Cost: $25 Members / $35 Non-Member
1 AHIMA CEU*
Domain: Data Structure, Content, and Information Governance

*AHIMA CEUs are also accepted by the AAPC! Check eligibility on the AAPC website.