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Home > Continuing Education > Medical Coding Workshops > Surefire Methods for Defensible Coding: Know What Makes it Correct

Surefire Methods for Defensible Coding: Know What Makes it Correct

  • Broadcast: Sep 24, 2009 at 12:00AM
  • Presentation Length: 1 Hour
  • On Demand available: Sep 24, 2009 at 12:00PM MDT *(Post-Event Recording)
  • Author: Michael D Miscoe, Esq, CPC, CPCO, CPMA, CASCC, CCPC, CUC
  • 4 CEU
    A
    Coding Billing Management
  • Price: $189.95
  • Members: $149.95
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Overview:
We all like to think we are 100% accurate. But if you were forced to prove it – could you? Can you find and differentiate controlling from persuasive criteria?For a coder, mistakes are transparent and create potential for big problems, such as failed audit results, improper denials and lost practice revenue - or worse, improper payments and potential post-payment liability. For 100% accuracy, coders need to have complete confidence in their ability to find controlling criteria for each payer, or to select from various persuasive authorities in the absence of controlling rules to ensure that you can defend your ultimate code selection. This workshop will teach you a hierarchy of analysis for identifying the relevant rules for compliant and defensible coding.

This Workshop Will Help You:

  • Identify all rules/laws and persuasive standards that impact all coding decisions
  • Successfully address and resolve suspicions of fraud in the workplace,
  • Properly defend your coding decisions or audit results
  • Scan statutes, provider contracts, and carrier medical policies and “zero in” on relevant language
  • Differentiate between fact and opinion – and what stands up to legal scrutiny
  • Predict when proper methods of coding may be open to interpretation and how to resolve ambiguity
  • Build unshakable credibility and value in your professional abilities in the eyes of your peers, employer, and providers or carriers on the other side of the claim

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About The Author

Mr. Miscoe has a bachelors of science degree from the United States Military Academy, a juris doctorate degree from Concord Law School, is a Certified Professional Coder, Certified Ambulatory Surgical Coder, Certified Urology Coder, Certified Chiropractic Professional Coder, Certified Professional Compliance Officer, Certified Professional Medical Auditor, the President of Practice Masters, Inc., and the founding partner of Miscoe Health Law, LLC.  He is the President Elect of the AAPC National Advisory Board, is a member of the AAPC Legal Advisory Board and is the Chair of the AAPC Ethics Committee. He is admitted to the practice of law in California as well as to the bar of the United States Supreme Court and the US District Courts in the Southern District of California and the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Miscoe has over twenty years of experience in healthcare coding and over sixteen years as a compliance expert, forensic coding expert and consultant.  He has provided expert analysis and testimony on a wide range of coding and compliance issues in civil and criminal cases and his law practice concentrates exclusively on representation of healthcare providers in post-payment audits as well as with responding to investigations pertaining to HIPAA issues by the HHS Office of Civil Rights. He has an extensive national speaking background and has been published in numerous national publications on a variety of coding, compliance and health law topics.