AAMAS Welcomes CentraMed
CentraMed is pleased to announce that the AAMAS Board of Directors has selected CentraMed’s online education program for member education. CentraMed’s catalog includes courses within the following program areas.
Clinical Documentation Improvement
CentraMed’s Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) Education Program is designed to provide bestin-class CDI targets for revenue retention and improvement, in alignment with coding and documentation accuracy. Key performance areas are reviewed, with specific attention placed on understanding the nuances of clinical documentation, coding guidelines, and, ultimately, ensuring a compliant medical record that supports accurate reimbursement. The CDI Education Program offers a customized learning experience to address the challenges that your coders and clinicians are facing in today’s stringent health information environment.
CPT Coding
Applying codes from the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding system is a challenging and complex process. CentraMed offers comprehensive CPT Coding Education, an in-depth and easy-to-understand program geared toward the hospital coder. Complete with guidelines set forth by the American Medical Association (AMA) and other regulatory agencies such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), this program is designed for coders at any level who are involved in both the hard-coding and soft-coding process. The program covers all aspects of surgical CPT coding and interventional radiology.
ICD Coding
ICD-10-CM is on the horizon, and a greater knowledge of clinical documentation will be required of coders. ICD-10 is the anticipated clinical modification of the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision. ICD-10 far exceeds its predecessors in the number of concepts and codes provided. The disease classification has been expanded to include health-related conditions and to provide greater specificity.
CentraMed’s ICD-9-CM Coding Education is designed to fill the coder education gap in preparation for ICD-10 implementation, as well as to provide education that is currently applicable to using ICD-9-CM. Our extensive course suite combines anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, and disease process information with coding guidelines developed by the Cooperating Parties and official references such as Coding Clinic. Our courses also include the effects of code assignment and clinical documentation on MSDRG reimbursement. No other education on the market today serves as comprehensively to prepare trainees for ICD-10 and enhance their ICD-9-CM coding skills.
Managed Care and Denial Management
CentraMed’s Managed Care and Denial Management curriculum is dedicated to enhancing both the beginner and the experienced managed care analysts’ education via a comprehensive selection of courses. It is designed to provide the tools and skill set required for today’s complex healthcare industry. From instruction on how to audit claims for payment inaccuracies, to understanding complex contractual provisions and their impact on correct adjudication processes, our Managed Care course suite is designed to equip alumni with the ability to protect hospital revenue and ensure payment accuracy. Additionally, our Denial Management classes provide specific tools and processes for overturning denials and ensuring full and accurate payment from all payers. Understanding these concepts will promote both revenue retention and revenue improvement for all employees working in patient financial services and healthcare finance departments.
Process Improvement
Process Improvement (PI) is a business strategy that produces measurable results by focusing on opportunities within an organization to improve, simplify, and integrate work processes and procedures. The goal of PI is to dig deep enough to identify the root cause rather than focus on symptoms of the problem. This approach prevents correction of the same type of problem over and over again. Continuous process improvement of a hospital’s revenue cycle is crucial to the financial health of the organization.
Revenue Cycle Concepts
CentraMed offers Revenue Cycle Concepts (RCC), a comprehensive education program for Patient Access/Registration and Patient Financial Services healthcare professionals. With a focus on front-end processes that promote effective pre-certification, authorization, registration, point-of-service collections, and other billing and collection best practices, the courses are designed to instruct all students involved in front-end revenue management how to “do it right the first time” – and avoid re-work on the back end.
Business and Leadership Skills
Healthcare organizations need leaders whose behaviors and actions combine to positively impact employees, customers, and the facility’s bottom line. It is vital that leaders and managers embrace the full scope of their responsibilities in order to positively impact business results. Our Business and Leadership Skills education program focuses on application-oriented learning experiences that address the entire role of the manager.
CentraMed and AAMAS have enjoyed a long history of sharing information and speaking opportunities. As the AAMAS membership has increasingly requested more education to further a career and maintain state-of-the-art skills in the auditing role, the CentraMed catalog presents a great opportunity to share an industry-leading education package.
CentraMed’s online education, developed by a nationally recognized team of educators, represents over ten years of content development. The courses are designed for self-paced learning and can be accessed from any Internet connection. The curriculum has great scope of coverage and also allows members to choose individual classes that best meet their current interests. Each class has a test section that allows for tracking progress. In addition, CentraMed’s coding courses allow for credits to be earned though a range of certification programs including the AAMAS CMAS® CEs. CentraMed’s coding courses also include an online help desk so you are never more than an e-mail away from expert advice and support.
Getting started is as easy as navigating to http://www.irminconline.com/ and visiting Revenue Management Education. Choose the program area, review the courses, make a selection, and pay online. To help members in their journey, CentraMed is offering a 15% discount for all courses purchased through December 31, 2011. An access code will be available to members at www.aamas.org to receive the discount.
The entire team at CentraMed welcomes AAMAS members and looks forward to a long and beneficial relationship.
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