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Dear Coding Professional, I'm the author of The Complete Guide to Medical Necessity: JustCoding’s Training and Education Toolkit. As a coder, I know first-hand the difficulty and frustration that comes from medical necessity denials. The core problem isn’t the diagnosis code itself, it is getting your medically necessary requirement aligned with the diagnoses and procedures in addition to the clinical documentation criteria. My toolkit (featuring a three-chapter online book and a full-length webinar) can really help with these difficulties. I give you step by step instructions to ensure that documentation of all diagnoses meet the importance of medical necessity as deemed by the payers (especially CMS). The toolkit will help you save your department time, create less appeals, and see fewer and fewer denied medical necessity claims as your claims zoom through the payment processes. I know that the information and helpful tips in this toolkit work, as I have lived the denials nightmare. Once you start implementing the tips and helpful information into your coding-practice model, you will wonder how you lived without it! -Lori-Lynne A. Webb, CPC, CCS-P, CCP, CHDA, CDIP, COBGC, AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer |
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