Description: HIM professionals assume a broad role to ensure a healthy revenue cycle organization. Whether inpatient or outpatient, an independent audit function serves to mitigate risk by ensuring accurate, complete and compliant coding. These audits may be concurrent or retrospective and often focus on high volume diagnoses, procedures or Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). Understanding the details and basis for your audit, as well as providing relevant coder education, is crucial to measure program results. In this session, attendees will learn how to utilize coding audits to make sustainable improvement by focusing on analysis, hands-on education, and ongoing risk management. 

Webinar Date: This was presented as part of OHIMA's 2022 Annual Meeting - March 21, 2022
Duration: 1 hour

Speaker: Abner Brignoni, CCS, has over thirty (30) years of healthcare experience currently serving as the Director of Client Services for the Health Information Management Practice.  He is a senior certified coding specialist (CCS) with extensive experience in hospital operations, management, advisory consulting, coding and auditing, and Interim Coding Management positions. His professional experience includes six (6) years as a Clinical Analytics Director with an emphasis on ICD-10 financial impacts, clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and education (both physician and coder), along with coding and physician documentation audits. In addition, Abner also served in the capacity of Data Quality Manager for seven (7) years for a large Orlando-based hospital.
Abner is proficient in DRG/grouper and encoder, having worked with Federal DRG’s through version 24, MS-DRG’s, and AP-DRG’s.

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Cost: $25 Members / $35 Non-Members
1 AHIMA CEU*
Domain: Revenue Cycle Management
Impact Area: Drive Financial Outcomes in Healthcare

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