Laureen: HCC Course - You kind of talked about this a little bit, but if you want to share,
we’re getting a lot of buzz in the chat about HCC people who are long time HCC coders,
like, “Yey!
Finally, some respect!”
and a lot of new people are like, “What is that?!”
Alicia: Yeah.
I have to tell you that our local chapter when I mentioned it, when I spoke it at the
local chapter and of course spills, I regurgitate HCC all the time because it’s what I like
to do, and so I’m always commenting on it.
I had several people come up to me afterwards and say, “Oh!
Nobody talks about HCC and I’m an HCC coder and I love what I do.”
That was three or four.
Then, the next time that I spoke, they actually had other people that didn’t get to come
up and talked to me, so HCC coders are really getting networked now and it’s growing,
not only in the past.
Maybe you worked a lot of remote stuff, but facilities are hiring HCC coders, they’re
doing their own departments because it’s all about Medicare and they need to collect,
project.
So, if your facility takes Medicare which you know they do, then they’re going to
end up probably having their own department.
So, it’s a good area to be in.
I mentioned before that our course, a majority of what our course is about is the behind-the
scenes: why you do what you do, what are the MACs, how are they audited, who’s responsible
for this?
Which is the behind-the-scenes stuff that you aren’t usually taught.
And then, in turn, we show you how to abstract, also give you a lot of insight on the disease
processes and treatments for the disease processes because the more you know that, the more you
know medications and treatments as well as signs and symptoms, that makes you a better
HCC coder.
So, it’s very exciting.
If you like diagnosis coding, then this is absolutely the way for you to go, it’s really
good for clinicians because they’re already in that world, aren’t they?
Again, this is a fun area to be in.
Laureen: By the way, guys, a couple of you were talking about wanting presentations for
your chapters, CCO offers FREE remote presentations, so very similar to what you’re experiencing
with this.
Alicia and I volunteer a time to go ahead and present to chapters all over the country
but remotely, so we didn’t have to fly and do all of that.
We have four or five chapters take advantage of that in January and February we’re scheduled
now.
I’ve got one for March and one for April, so our dance card is filling up fast, but
Alicia can present on what is HCC coding and go in-depth for that.I’ve been doing the
CPT update, the modifiers presentation, my E/M presentation; so if you’re interested
in that, reach out to us.
You can email me laureen@codingcertification.org or have your chapter officer reach out to
me and we can set it up as long as it fits in our schedule, it’s pretty good.
And the reason we do it is because we want to get the CCO name out there but we don’t
charge and we don’t advertise the whole time that we’re talking.
It’s just, this is who we are, if you’re interested, come to our site.
Alicia: And it’s not easy as Laureen and I know and many of you know to find a speaker
for your chapter events, and this way, again, if it fits into our schedule, we’re somewhat
flexible.
It’s a great way to have a guest speaker.