March 26, 2021
WebEx CME: Clinical Documentation Integrity
Low Hanging Fruit for Acute Care Practice — April 7th and 14th
Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) is offering comprehensive education this spring. The hospitalist department has long required a comprehensive CME for new hire hospitalists. Beginning last year, we expanded this educational offering to any interested providers. The content is applicable for any provider caring for hospitalized patients. We strongly suggest this CME to new hires, but any provider is welcome.
Agenda
Section 1 (7:30 – 10:00AM)
Opportunities in Clinical Documentation Integrity
• Introduction to CDI: how documentation impacts risk adjusted outcome metrics, quality measures, revenue and changing healthcare economics; tools to do the work; basic education on inpatient coding framework
• Education on acute care diagnosis capture: What is the low-hanging fruit for diagnosis specificity
Section 2 (10:00 – 11:00AM)
Evaluation and Management (E&M) Levels for Professional Services
• Education on evaluation and management levels for the acute care environment (AKA E&M AKA CPT code AKA professional fees)
This content offers Continuing medical education (CME) credit (3 hours) and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credit (applicable toboard certification of family medicine, internal medicine, OB/GYN, orthopedic surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry, neurology, surgery, thoracic surgery, and urology).
NOTE: one can choose to attend only Section 2 (E&M) and receive 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 credit, OR can skip this E&M section and receive 2.0 credits for attendance at only Section 1.
When you learn documentation principles, you can become a better clinician and diagnostician. That sounds backwards, but let me build a case for it.
Jessie Roske, MD
WebEx CME
April 7th from 7:30—11:00AM
April 14th from 7:30—11:00AM
If you opt to attend E&M education only, join from 10:00—11:00AM.
Opportunities in Inpatient Clinical Documentation Integrity and Evaluation and Management (E&M) Levels for Professional Services — Low Hanging Fruit for Acute Care Practice
Objectives
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants should be able to:
- Understand the impact of documentation for accurate reflection of patient severity of illness (SOI), risk of mortality (ROM), DRG assignment, and care outcomes.
- Recognize opportunities for documentation of relevant acute and chronic conditions with essential diagnosis specificity and the tools provided to support optimal provider documentation.
- Understand the basic elements that determine Evaluation and Management levels for a patient encounter.
- Identify possible modifications to personal documentation structure(s) of encounter notes.
CentraCare is accredited by the Minnesota Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
CentraCare designates the live activity for a maximum of 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Please contact the Medical Staff Development Office at (320) 255-5836 if you have special mobility, vision, hearing, or other needs.