Auditing Surgical Operative Reports: Clinical Documentation and Compliance Challenges

Description

Description

Knowing how to audit surgical operative reports is important for any surgical compliance program, as well as for the financial health of any surgical group. Attend this webinar to learn how to audit surgical operative reports. After this webinar, you will be able to audit surgical operative reports, identify possible compliance issues, and identify possible lost revenue.

During this webinar, our expert speaker Dr. Dreama Sloan-Kelly will walk you through the subject of auditing surgical operative reports, explaining various concepts in detail and providing useful information which will help you perform your duties better. The session agenda includes topics such as compliance, major risk areas, factors that can make you a target for an audit, the biggest errors people make, how to approach the audit process, the operative report, preparing for your audit, how diagnosis codes are evaluated, auditing the diagnosis codes, evaluating the procedure codes, auditing modifiers, and managing data.

Topics under discussion include: What federal and commercial payer auditors look for; how to spot the key terms that support the CPT and ICD-10 codes billed; how to communicate with the surgeon regarding the clinical documentation needed to support the CPT and ICD-10 codes billed; how to search for missed revenue by a comparison of the documentation and the CPT codes billed; guideline requirements for the surgical operative report; best approach for the audit process; appropriate evaluation of the procedure codes; tips on auditing procedure codes, and many others.

All webinar attendees will be provided handouts which will help them remember and make the most of what they have learnt during the training session.

Training Highlights:

• Find out what federal and commercial payer auditors look for
• Learn how to spot key terms that support the CPT and ICD-10 codes billed
• Understand how to communicate with the surgeon regarding what clinical documentation will be needed to support the CPT and ICD-10 codes billed, in order to ensure that everything is billed with utmost specificity
• Discover how to search for possible missed revenue by a comparison of the documentation and the CPT codes billed
• Go through guideline requirements for the surgical operative report
• Understand the best approach for the audit process
• Learn how to evaluate the procedure codes appropriately'
• Obtain tips on auditing procedure codes
• …and much more

Who will benefit:

• Clinical documentation improvement specialists
• Practice Managers
• Office Managers
• Medical Coders
• Medical Billing personnel
• MR Auditors
• MDs