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Identify and fix your charge capture disconnects
What are the true costs of providing blood transfusion services? Chances are, they’re more — possibly as much as three to five times more — than your reported costs for blood acquisition. Why the disconnect? In large part, it’s because of confusion over which transfusion-related services are billable and which ones are not. This “RAC Hot Topics” webcast seminar will help clear up the confusion, setting you up to correctly capture all charges tied to blood products and transfusion services. Also, since transfusion billing is a target issue for Recovery Auditor Contractors, we will examine the cost accounting best practices that can protect your claims from auditor action. Highlights::
- The common issues that prevent hospitals from capturing the full payment for transfusion and transfusion-related services
- Audit findings — specific charge capture and documentation disconnects that may increase your RAC risks and the steps you can take to prevent them
- Strategies for evaluating and strengthening charge capture processes to include blood administration, blood product processing and pre-transfusion testing
- Understanding the differences between coding and billing for outpatient versus inpatient transfusions
About our presenter
This MedLearn webcast seminar is presented by Randy Wiitala, BS, MT (ASCP), a MedLearn senior healthcare consultant since 1991. His areas of expertise include chargemaster review and management for critical access and OPPS hospitals, revenue assurance, and regulatory compliance. Mr. Wiitala contributes to a variety of MedLearn publications and electronic products that help providers maintain revenue streams and regulatory compliance for pharmacy, respiratory therapy and laboratory services. His professional career includes experience as a medical technologist in rural and urban hospitals, marketing manager for a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company and product development/regulatory affairs specialist with a multinational diagnostics testing firm.
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