CodingWebU.com Partners with MCare Solutions, Inc. and Health Care Strategies, Inc.

MCare Solutions, Inc. (MCare) and Health Care Strategies, Inc. (HCS) announced today a partnership with CodingWebU.com to assist in marketing MCare services.

MCare is a leading provider of Transfer DRG Underpayment Reimbursement Services and 3-Day Payment Window Recovery Services. HCS is a marketing management and business development consulting firm, and has helped MCare capture a 300-plus hospital market share through its own efforts as well as through the establishment and management of channel partners.

Through CodingWebU.com’s affiliation with HCS and MCare, CodingWebU.com will offer its clients and prospects the services of MCare. Kenny Smith, President and founder of CodingWebU.com, commented, “Expanding on our product offerings is a natural extension of work I’ve done previously in the marketplace, and the coding requirements associated with 3-Day Payment Window recoveries fit in well with our organizational strengths and capabilities.”

Dave Jupp, President and founder of MCare Solutions, Inc., said, “Kenny’s background and experience in Transfer DRG recoveries and his company’s coding programs and resources will be a boost to our expansion plans, and we’re delighted that HCS has put us together.”

About MCare Solutions, Inc.

MCareSolutions, Inc. (www.mcare-solutions.com) was founded in 2005 as the first company providing Transfer DRG reimbursement recovery services for acute care providers which now includes acute care discharges related to Medicare Advantage payers. Services also include reimbursement recoveries for IME/GME payments owed to teaching hospitals for Medicare Advantage claims and underpayments resulting from erroneously bundled services related to the CMS 3-Day Payment Window. To date, MCare is responsible for nearly $100 million in underpayment reimbursements to client hospitals. MCare represents more than 300 for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals from Alaska to Florida, individual community hospitals from <100>

About CodingWebU.com

CodingWebU.com (www.codingwebu.com) is exclusively geared towards providing quality education at affordable prices to the medical coding and billing arenas. Its experienced authors average over 25 years of medical coding and billing experience.

About Health Care Strategies, Inc.

Health Care Strategies, Inc. (www.healthcarestrategiesinc.com) combines internal resources with a network of client companies and channel partners that currently provide services to over 2000 hospitals nationwide. As a result, HCS is able to guide marketing management and business development efforts for its client companies - select revenue cycle service providers who need to reach the hospital and healthcare system industry. The results are often an impressive “jump start” to obtaining market share.

Anatomy Courses recently approved by the AAPC for CEUs.

The AAPC has recently approved the following Anatomy Courses for CEUs:

*Circulatory – From Arteries to Veins

*Endocrine System – Body System Integration

*The Ear - Sensory Reception

*Bursa, Muscles, Joints, Ligaments, Cartilage

*Male Reproductive System

*Digestive – The Ins and Outs

These recently approved courses now have audio voice over on each page and now also have additional pages of content.

Other courses within the Anatomy Curriculum that are currently being revised and will be submitted for CEUs shortly are:

*Respiratory System – The Aero Plane

*Skeletal System – Head to Toe

*Integumentary: Full Coverage - The Skin

Coding Interventional Radiology is now approved by the AAPC for CEUs

One of the most difficult services to code is Interventional Radiology and its component coding requirements. Since Interventional Radiologists code for both the procedure and the imaging services, the coder must be aware of the different guidelines for each part of the service.

This course will provide instructions and examples of a cross-section of services provided by these practitioners, including:

Arterial System

Venous System

Pulmonary System

Portal System

Lymphatic System

Catheterizations

Angiography

Therapeutic Procedures

The course will also cover how to determine the orders of vascular families and the coding steps for complete coding.

Price: $60.00Approved for 2 CEUs by the AAPC.

Now Contains Audio Voice Over

AAPC Approved the "Coding for Emergency Department Services" course CEUs.

Our "Coding for Emergency Department Services" has been approved by the AAPC for 1 CEU.

Throughout this course, you will learn the differences between hospital and physician coding requirements, type A and type B emergency department coding, and trauma center requirements. This course will guide you through these scenarios and provide answers to your most frequent questions.

*ED changes and similarities in the last 30+ years

*Differences between professional & facility calculations

*Point system

*New ED rules

You can access this course now for only $40.

Coding Certification Review Blitz

The Coding Certification Review Blitz is developed by an experienced instructor. She teaches two and three-day review classes that are called the "Blitz" because they are very intense jam-packed reviews for those preparing for one of the physician-based board exams. Many students have expressed that it was this Blitz that helped them pass the exam. A recent Blitz has been recorded and produced into a 4 DVD Set. This DVD Set is available online exclusively through www.CodingWebU.com

Blitz Volume 1 Covers:
An Introduction to the exam
Medical Terminology
HCPCS
Modifiers
ICD-9

Blitz Volume 2 Covers:
E/M
Anesthesia
Radiology
Path and Lab
Medicine

Blitz Volume 3 Covers:
Integumentary
Musculoskeletal
Respiratory
Cardiovascular

Blitz Volume 4 Covers:
Digestive
Urinary
Genital
Endocrine / Nervous
Eye / Ear

PRICING

Blitz Volume 1: $79Blitz Volume 2: $69Blitz Volume 3: $69Blitz Volume 4: $59Blitz Volume 1-4: $240Blitz Volume 1-4 Plus DVD set: $289

Authors Needed

CodingWebU is looking for authors who are interested in developing courses on the following topics:

• OIG Work Plans and Coding Targets
• Medical Transcription
• Compliance and Auditing
• RAC
• Courses geared towards Specialty Credentials
  

If interested, please send your resume to Kenny Smith at ksmith@codingwebu.com or call 484-433-0495. Instructor Certification or Teaching Experience is required.

CodingWebU.com: OB/GYN Curriculum is Now Available!

CodingWebU.com just released a 4 part OB/GYN Curriculum with complete Audio Voice Over.

Course 1) OB/GYN: E&M Basics - Anatomy of Code-Outpatient Visits and Preventive Care Services
Approved by the AAPC for 1.5 CEUs on sale for $45

Upon completion of this session, the participant shall be able to:

1. Identify the key components of an evaluation and management service.
2. List the appropriate documentation elements required within the history, physical examination and medical decision making of a new and established patient.
3. Apply the general documentation principles of an evaluation and management encounter as defined by the American Medical Association (AMA) and Medicare
4. Describe exceptions to the basic evaluation and management encounters and be able to code, document and bill for these services based on the amount of time spent with a patient.
5. Describe the differences between a “problem” visit versus a preventive care visit
6. Identify the differences between a significant and separately identifiable problem visit and an incidental finding during a preventive care visit and apply this knowledge in coding for both the significant problem visit and preventive care visit at the same patient encounter
7. List the specific documentation elements required for a preventive care encounter.
8. Identify the different documentation requirements for a Medicare Well-woman Exam and non-Medicare Well-woman exam.

Course 2) OB/GYN: Coding and Documentation for Inpatient Services, Emergency Department and Observation Care Services
Approved by the AAPC for 1.0 CEUs on sale for $35

Upon completion of this session, the participant shall be able to:

1. Apply the basic evaluation and management coding and documentation guidelines in billing for hospital admissions, inpatient consults, subsequent care visits and Medicare’s shared-split visits.
2. List the specific key components required for the documentation of the history, exam and medical decision making (plan of care) of these inpatient services.
3. Identify the specific cases that qualify for billing as “critical care.”
4. Identify the clinical tasks that are inclusive/exclusive of discharge day management
5. Apply the teaching physician documentation rules when utilizing residents/medical students
6. Workflow common case scenarios when the physician “meets” the patient in the Emergency Department
7. List the specific key components required for the documentation of the history, exam and medical decision making (plan of care) of these “alternative settings” services.
8. Identify which CPT codes to bill for the Emergency Room visit, observation status, outpatient consult or outpatient visit codes.
9. Capture services for ED patients who were scheduled for hospital admission but were sent home instead.
10. Describe appropriate utilization of Non-physician providers such as CRNPs and PAs.

Course 3) OB/GYN: Coding for Gynecological Surgery and Office Procedures
Approved by the AAPC for 1.0 CEUs on sale for $35

Upon completion of this session, the participant shall be able to:

1. Identify the minimum documentation requirements for certain office procedures such as colonoscopy.
2. Apply the bundling edit guidelines to multiple surgical procedures.
3. Apply the appropriate modifiers to multiple surgical procedures.
4. Describe the appropriate procedural coding selection for certain gynecological services performed via laparoscopy, hysteroscopy and open procedures.

Module 6) OB/GYN: Coding and Documentation for Obstetric Complications
Approved by the AAPC for 1.0 CEUs on sale for $35

Upon completion of this session, the participant shall be able to:

1. Identify which antepartum and postpartum services are included and excluded from the global obstetric package.
2. Apply the diagnosis coding reporting guidelines to normal versus high risk pregnancy
3. Describe, identify and document the differences between a high risk pregnancy and normal pregnancy.
4. Define the documentation requirements for a complicated delivery
5. Apply the coding guidelines for various types of pregnancy termination (missed or incomplete abortions, elective, spontaneous, surgical management.
6. List the documentation requirements and diagnosis coding for ultrasounds, NST and Biophysical profile.

2010 Annual CEU Coding Scenarios are Now Available!

New versions of the most popular way to earn your CEUs are now available online at http://www.codingwebu.com/

This year we have added hours of curriculum prior to each section's scenarios with audio incorporated into each page to enhance the learning environment.

Each course is self-paced and allows you to log out and log back in to complete the course at your leisure. Once you complete the course, you can then print your CEU Certificate.

2010 CEU Coding Scenarios for the Professional Coder Part 1: 10.5 CEUs - $95
2010 CEU Coding Scenarios for the Professional Coder Part 2: 9 CEUs - $89
2010 CEU Coding Scenarios for Hospital Services: 9.5 CEUs - $89
2010 CEU Coding Scenarios for the Payer: 9 CEUs - $89
2010 CEU Coding Scenarios for E/M: 7 CEUs - $85