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A Rural Health Approach to the ICD-10 Project

 

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Sponsor: Georgia Rural Health Assocation and Healthare Georgia Foundation

Presenter:
Gary W. Lucas, CPC, CPC-I, AHIMA ICD-10 Ambassador
Director of Health IT & ICD-10
TracePoint Consulting
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Session Description:
The attendees will learn the differences in how to successfully implement the ICD-10 Clinical Modification (CM) and Procedural Coding System (PCS) while distinguishing the affected facilities and potential road blocks to successful implementation in October of 2014. Considering the scale of the project and resource challenges common to rural health, key areas will be highlighted on how to get the project moving if it hasn’t started yet and/or how to maintain current progress.

The learners will be presented with strategies on how to inform, educate, and support each of the various personnel who will be affected by the transition to the ICD-10 including not just coders/billers, but IT staff, Human Resources, Finance, facility leadership from the beginning of the project through to the end.

Learners will be able to distinguish which formal strategic planning principles need to be applied to the project and when they need to be applied during key stages in their Project Plan. For those who do not have a project plan nor have completed their initial ICD-10 assessment, guidelines on how to get these key project phases kick-started in a rural setting will be a particular focus.

Session Objectives:

  • ICD-10 CM/PCS General Overview
  • Practice and Facility Implementation Focus Areas and Strategies
  • Review of Key Principles and Coding Guidelines for the ICD-10-CM
  • Review of Key Principles and Coding Guidelines for the ICD-10-PCS
  • Where to go from here?

About Gary Lucas:
Gary Lucas is a health care IT, compliance, and revenue cycle consultant with 18 years of experience. Starting with The Medical Management Institute in 1994, Gary provided over 1,200 nationwide seminars on physician and outpatient-based professional coding, medical billing, Medicare compliance, and practice management while travelling in 49 states. In 2004, Gary opened Discover Compliance Resources and provided similar consulting services to pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, health care facilities, and the Department of Defense. During this time, Gary served as Adjunct Faculty to both The Medical Management Institute and Contexo Media and continued providing the first Coding Boot Camps in the country by taking the AAPC's 80 hour curriculum and adjusting it to a 3 day course followed by proctoring the CPC exam. Gary has helped literally hundreds of people pass the CPC exam and to expand their professional careers through certification with the AAPC.

Starting in 2007, Gary spent 4 years with Booz Allen Hamilton providing IT consulting, organizational change, and training management services to federal government clients including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Veterans Health Administration, among others. Currently with TracePoint Consulting in Atlanta, GA Gary is the Director of Health IT and ICD-10. Gary has provided ICD-10 implementation training for the Colorado, Georgia, and Louisiana State Offices of Rural Health and is responsible for the design and development of several revenue cycle and health care related IT products and services.

In addition to holding the CPC designation for over 12 years and the CPC-Instructor for 11 years from the AAPC, Gary is a graduate of The University of Georgia's Terry College of Business, holds the AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM & PCS Trainer certificate, and is close to a Master's of Science in Health Care Informatics from the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Technology Requirements:

  • Personal computer with Macintosh or Windows with 512 MB of RAM
  • Broadband internet connection such as an office LAN, DSL, or cable modem
  • Phone next to personal computer (or speaker phone if multiple people are viewing)
  • Computer speakers (built-in or attached)
  • Latest version of Adobe Flash which can be downloaded for free at http://www.adobe.com/


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