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Detect and correct payment issues - before the auditors do!
Does your hospital's "recipe" for Medicare compliance include PEPPER? It should. We're talking about the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report, or PEPPER. From this MedLearn webcast seminar, you will gain a clear understanding of the PEPPER and how it can help you detect and correct improper coding, billing and admission-necessity practices - before the Recovery Audit Contractor comes calling. Highlights:
- A PEPPER primer - what is contained in this quarterly report and why it's relevant to short-term acute-care hospitals
- Applying the PEPPER to your hospital's internal auditing and monitoring initiatives, ensuring that Medicare charges are being properly documented and billed
- Which MS-DRGs are currently being targeted for medical necessity and MS-DRG validation
- Analyzing and applying suggested interventions and best practices for outliers (over and under) to improve your hospital's outcomes
About our presenter
This MedLearn webcast seminar is presented by Carol Spencer, BA, RHIA, CCS, CHDA. A MedLearn senior consultant, Ms. Spencer possesses more than 20 years of experience in health information management, coding, teaching, data quality and operations. She is an accomplished teacher, author, and speaker covering subjects/topics such as MS-DRGs, ICD-9-CM coding, compliance strategies, clinical documentation improvement and RAC-preparedness. Ms. Spencer is the project lead and thought leader for MedLearn's RAC Inpatient Data Analytics program.
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