Solve Chargemaster Maintenance and Update Challenges - On-Demand

Available ON-DEMAND

Presented on: Thursday, November 10, 2022

Presented by: Camille Ruiz, RHIA

Chargemaster maintenance is a never-ending task, but the end-of-year updates require special planning and coordination to ensure changes are successfully implemented. These updates don’t stop at making the appropriate changes in the data file. Even if the chargemaster is complete and accurate, the revenue cycle process will come to a halt if other factors aren’t fully considered, including charge capture workflows, interactions with related systems, work queue assignments, and pricing. Ensuring that reimbursement and billing remain correct, complete, and compliant is a complex task involving multiple stakeholders, and it’s all too easy to overlook a critical process or department.

During this program, expert speaker Camille Ruiz, RHIA, will analyze CMS’ latest changes that affect the chargemaster and share best practices for comprehensive chargemaster maintenance, including implementation strategies, updating policies and workflows, and conducting testing to spot operational errors. She’ll also discuss tips for providing education to revenue cycle and clinical departments, reviewing, and assigning work queues, and more. Ruiz will also participate in a live Q&A.

At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Explain CMS’ proposed Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) and Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System updates for 2023
• Describe strategies for implementing chargemaster updates and providing education to affected departments
• Demonstrate methods to test interfaces and identify errors

Agenda

• Review of proposed CMS updates affecting the chargemaster
  • Proposed code updates and payment changes
• Preparing for updates
  • Identifying key stakeholders, roles, and processes
  • Defining deliverables and timelines
• Pricing strategies
  • Payers and payment methods
• Charge capture and clinical departments
  • Meeting with clinical departments
  • Determining charge capture processes
  • Providing education
• Final steps
  • Updates to adjunctive systems
  • Building work queue and assignment reviews
  • Policies and procedures
  • Interface testing
• Implementation
• Q&A

Who Should Listen?

• Chargemaster managers
• Chargemaster coordinators
• Chargemaster specialists
• Chargemaster analysts
• Revenue integrity directors
• Revenue integrity managers
• Revenue integrity specialists
• Revenue integrity analysts
• HIM directors
• HIM managers
• Revenue cycle directors
• Revenue cycle managers

Meet the Speaker

Camille Ruiz, RHIA, is a regulatory specialist for HCPro and an instructor for HCPro’s Revenue Integrity and Chargemaster Boot Camp®. She has served as a clinic coder, HIM manager and director, CDM analyst, and CDM and revenue integrity consultant. She has more than 15 years of experience with revenue systems coordination and CDM and revenue cycle consulting. She is an AHIMA-approved Revenue Cycle Trainer.

Continuing Education

AAPC
This program has the prior approval of AAPC for 1 continuing education hours. Granting of prior approval in no way constitutes endorsement by AAPC of the program content or the program sponsor.

Ability to claim credits for this webinar expires on: 11/30/2023

AHIMA
This program has been approved for continuing education unit(s) (CEUs) for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Granting of Approved CEUs from AHIMA does not constitute endorsement of the program content or its program provider.

Ability to claim credits for this webinar expires on: 11/9/2023

NAHRI
This program has been approved for 1 continuing education units towards fulfilling the requirements of the Certification in Healthcare Revenue Integrity (CHRI), offered as a service of the National Association of Healthcare Revenue Integrity (NAHRI).

Ability to claim credits for this webinar expires on: 11/9/2023

Instructions

Webinar system requirements and program materials: 
To fully benefit from the webinar experience, please note you will need a computer equipped with the following:

Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer or Edge, Firefox, Chrome, or Safari, with JavaScript enabled 
Internet: Internet connection (high-speed connection recommended) 
Streaming: Access audio/video streaming from any browser on a computer, mobile, or tablet device

Prior to the webinar, you will receive an email with detailed system requirements, your login information, presentation slides, and other materials that you can print and distribute to all attendees at your location. 

CAN'T LISTEN LIVE? 
No problem. The On-Demand version will be available. Use it as a training tool at your convenience—whenever your new or existing staff need a refresher or need to understand a new concept. Play it once or dozens of times. A $229 value! 

PLEASE NOTE 
Participation in the webinar is just $229 per site. All materials must be retrieved from the Internet.

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