Hear Joan L. Usher, BS, RHIA, ACE, a nationally recognized expert in Home Health Coding, discuss Auditing Documentation in the Post-Acute Care Setting in this free, brief presentation. ICD-10-CM for Home Health Providers: Fundamentals of Home Health Coding In four lessons, this course provides an introduction to ICD-10-CM codes and guidelines; plus specific guidance for assigning […]
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Hear Joan L. Usher, BS, RHIA, ACE, a nationally recognized expert in Home Health Coding, discuss Why is CDI Essential in the Post-Acute Care Setting? in this free, brief presentation. ICD-10-CM for Home Health Providers: Fundamentals of Home Health Coding In four lessons, this course provides an introduction to ICD-10-CM codes and guidelines; plus specific guidance […]
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Hear Joan L. Usher, BS, RHIA, ACE, a nationally recognized expert in Home Health Coding, discuss Examples of Clinical Documentation Improvement in Post-Acute Care Setting in this free, brief presentation. ICD-10-CM for Home Health Providers: Fundamentals of Home Health Coding In four lessons, this course provides an introduction to ICD-10-CM codes and guidelines; plus specific guidance […]
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Hear Joan L. Usher, BS, RHIA, ACE, a nationally recognized expert in Home Health Coding, discuss Documentation and Coding of Diabetes with … in this free, brief presentation. ICD-10-CM for Home Health Providers: Fundamentals of Home Health Coding In four lessons, this course provides an introduction to ICD-10-CM codes and guidelines; plus specific guidance for […]
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Hear Joan L. Usher, BS, RHIA, ACE, a nationally recognized expert in Home Health Coding, discuss Documentation and Coding of Laterality and Specificity in this free, brief presentation. ICD-10-CM for Home Health Providers: Fundamentals of Home Health Coding In four lessons, this course provides an introduction to ICD-10-CM codes and guidelines; plus specific guidance for […]
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Hear Joan L. Usher, BS, RHIA, ACE, a nationally recognized expert in Home Health Coding, discuss Introduction to Coding and CDI in Post-Acute Care Setting in this free, brief presentation. ICD-10-CM for Home Health Providers: Fundamentals of Home Health Coding In four lessons, this course provides an introduction to ICD-10-CM codes and guidelines; plus specific guidance […]
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by Joan Usher, BS, RHIA, ACE Did your organization have a privacy or information security breach of any unsecured protected health information (PHI) during 2017? If the answer is YES, and the breach impacted less than 500 individuals, the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule requires that this incident(s) be reported to the Secretary of Health and […]
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As a consultant to the Home Health and Hospice industry, I see three opportunities for coders to make a significant difference on their agency’s bottom line by understanding the impact of case mix: …
read more »For home health and hospice coders, I always recommend going back to the basics, that is, reviewing the coding guidelines for proper sequencing and compliance with …
read more »by Joan L. Usher, BS, RHIA, COS-C, ACE Did your organization have a privacy or information security breach of unsecured protected health during 2014? If the answer is YES, and the breach impacted less than 500 individuals, the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule requires that this incident(s) be reported to the Secretary of Health and Human Services Office […]
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