Coding for COVID-19 and Its Associated Conditions

Recorded Webinar | Sharon Litwin | From: Mar 24, 2021 - To: Dec 31, 2021

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Now that coders have had some time to work through patient cases using the COVID-19 diagnosis codes, it’s time to do a quick review to ensure that they are using these new codes correctly to remain compliant and capture accurate payments.

This training is perfect for your coders, quality assurance staff, and clinicians. They’ll walk through scenarios involving the new COVID-19 codes and be able to avoid audit scrutiny and potential overpayments later.

Learning Objectives:-

  • Comply with rules on COVID-19 code use
  • Understand how COVID-19 codes can impact payments
  • Avoid auditor scrutiny related to COVID-19 codes
  • Deliver documentation to support the use of COVID-19 codes
  • Spot conditions resulting from COVID-19
  • Identify how to avoid common coding mistakes with COVID-19 codes

Agenda:-

  • Explore COVID-19 code choices and understand why the new codes to identify conditions resulting from COVID-19 were necessary
  • Discuss the new respiratory code
  • Walkthrough the new musculoskeletal codes
  • Work through scenarios involving MIS coding and more
  • Walkthrough the new Z codes
  • Identify when new codes can be primary
  • Review the guidelines
  • Live Q&A

Who Should Attend?

  • Agency coders
  • Outsourced coders
  • Coding managers
  • Clinical supervisors
  • Directors of nursing
  • Quality improvement/quality assurance managers
  • Agency owners

Sharon Litwin

Sharon Litwin, RN, MHA

Sharon Litwin is founder and senior managing partner of 5 Star Consultants, a national consulting and coding firm specializing in homecare and hospice services since 2003. Sharon was an ACHC and CHAP surveyor, performing Medicare deemed surveys for ten years.

In her consulting firm, Sharon assists homecare and hospice agencies in providing quality, meeting regulations, ICD-10 coding, OASIS, increasing outcomes and Star Ratings, and having continued survey readiness. Sharon and her staff perform ICD-10 coding and OASIS reviews, QAPI, clinical record reviews, mock surveys, and help agencies across the country stay in compliance. Sharon is a regular speaker to education companies, state and national associations and publications.