Education

We offer the only CDM management training program that includes lecture, hands on application of theories as well as a complete review of your facility CDM. Your current CDM actually becomes part of your classroom as you work with your own codes to gain the skills necessary to implement changes to your chargemaster on a routine basis. Better yet, when you leave class, you do so with the ability to manage all coding changes yourself using the ChargeMaster Pro software application.

Simply put, it’s the only CDM training of its kind. No one else offers this detail and depth of education—empowering your team to return home ready to maintain your CDM accurately and completely.

The only CDM management program that includes hands-on training using your current facility CDM.

Conducted by our strategic partner, the Chargemaster Institute (CMI), the CCH ChargeMaster Pro Educational program delivers hands-on Chargemaster management practice and experience, incorporating your real data into the training. This important advantage allows you to apply classroom lessons directly to your facility CDM.

Presented in a "lab" setting, this three-week program begins with instructional lessons, then advances to a clinical session where you work with your actual CDM.

The program covers:

• The applicable revenue codes to report the charges made from your department to Medicare and non-Medicare payers
• The coverage issues that apply to the charges in your department
• The applicable modifier codes that apply to charges in your department
• Identifying and dealing with common Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits
• Commonly encountered compliance issues in your area
• Identifying special coding/billing challenges that exist in selected revenue center codes and describe steps needed to accurately capture charges and receive the proper reimbursement
• Performing an effective review of your department ChargeMaster with an emphasis on how the above apply to charging, compliance and billing

In addition to learning about the charging, billing, coverage and compliance issues that affect your department, you also study side by side with those individuals in your facility primarily responsible for ChargeMaster maintenance. Working as a team using the CCH ChargeMaster Pro data analysis/review software application, you begin to apply the lessons learned to your own hospital’s ChargeMaster. The CMI expert staff then examines your findings and provides an Executive Report for your review and implementation.

Additional resources and services included in the Educational program

A one-year subscription for ongoing support from CMI which includes:

• Up to 10 questions by email per month
• Up to one hour of telephone support per month

Access to the clients-only section of our web site:

• Searchable FAQ’s categorized by clinical area
• Useful Downloads
• Hosted Bulletin Board

A one-year subscription to CCH’s ChargeMaster Comply—ChargeMaster Comply contains all of the reference material/information needed to maintain a CDM in one convenient location. Information is updated daily, and weekly email alerts notify ChargeMaster review staff that a change has occurred and when it becomes effective.

Publications:

• Two UB-92 Editors with a one-year subscription
• Two 2007 CPT® Manuals – "Professional Edition"
• Two 2007 HCPCS Level II Manuals – "Expert Edition"
• Two pharmacy reference manuals
• Two laboratory reference manuals

One outpatient price profile—Comparison of your hospital HCPCS code-based pricing against your Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) hospitals using the most recent CMS Med-Par data available. Information is provided in both an electronic format that can be manipulated for analysis, as well as a hard copy, Adobe-formatted report.

One outpatient charge capture analysis report—This report organizes data by primary CPT® procedure and identifies the secondary CPT® codes most commonly billed with the primary procedure. The report includes a comparison of your hospital charge practices in your MSA. This can help to pinpoint areas with potential lost charges. Information is provided in both an electronic format that can be manipulated for analysis, as well as a hard copy, Adobe-formatted report.

Attendance for up to three persons from your hospital at our annual "Best Practices" Seminar—Each year CMI provides a two-day program featuring an in-depth review of the coming year’s changes and their impact on your hospital.

For more information call 888-224-7377 or contact us online.