CCH Health Care

CCH Audio Seminar
ChargeMaster Maintenance

CCH is proud to present the audio seminar ChargeMaster Maintenance.

This is your chance to gain the knowledge that is necessary for the management of every hospital department’s chargemaster. The concepts that will be presented are applicable to your every day decisions regarding management of your chargemaster, including:

• What can be charged?
• What should not be charged?
• Why your description is important?
• What price should I charge?
• How do I identify the correct revenue, and HCPCS codes?

CCH is proud to present an audio conference with Leonard Womack that will provide you with the basic knowledge of the chargemaster needed to make these important decisions. In addition, you will have an opportunity to discuss and obtain answers to the difficult questions you face every day about managing your chargemaster.

Topics to be covered include:

• Understanding of CDM and concepts that should be considered and applied for best practice CDM management
• Numbering
• Descriptions
• Coding Concepts
  • Revenue Codes
  • HCPCS Codes
  • Modifiers
• Exception Fields
• Chargemaster concepts for Medicare and non-Medicare payers
• Understands basics of coverage of services, supplies, and pharmaceuticals

Presenters

Leonard Womack
Leonard Womack has been in healthcare since 1979. As a Certified Procedural Coder – Hospital (CPC-H) he taught coding at a San Diego State University outreach program for two years. He is a frequent speaker around the nation and has presented at the Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors national conference, regional AHIMA meetings, HFMA conferences in South Carolina, San Diego, and Baton Rouge, the South Carolina Hospital Association, and has been both a facilitator and speaker at the annual HealthCare Round Table program on CDM issues for the last 5 years. Additionally, Leonard has had several articles published on CDM management issues including; Part B News, and the CCH Healthcare Compliance Letter, Report on Medicare Compliance. Mr. Womack founded ChargeMaster Institute, Inc. in July 2001. Since that time, his company has performed over 170 chargemaster coding reviews and currently provides ongoing support to over 40 hospitals. Known for timely, accurate and reliable information and their ability to defend company findings with supportive documentation, the company’s primary goal is to provide; educational programs designed to result in defensible internal chargemaster management controls, onsite CDM educational programs and CDM reviews.