Catalog Number : ccma1627
Title : Developing Charge Master Charge Structures
Speaker : Duane Abbey
Duration : 90 minutes
Webplay Recording Date : 8-14-2009
Webplay Price : $ 225 for two weeks viewing
Webinar Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Webinar Overview:
- What are these device-dependent APCs
and DRGs?
- What is all the fuss about
charge compression?
- How can we control our
cost-to-charge ratios?
- How should we be pricing devices?
Supplies? Drugs?
- Are we missing charges in connection
with supplies and pharmacy items?
- What can we do to adjust our pricing
and address charge compression?
- How does all this affect APC and DRG
reimbursement?
Target Audience:
- Chargemaster Coordinators
- Billing and Claims Generation
Personnel
- Compliance Personnel
- Patient Financial Management
Personnel
- Cost Accounting Personnel
- Cost Report Personnel
- Financial Analysts
- Managed Care Contract Personnel
- Revenue Enhancement Personnel
- Chief Financial Officers
- Chief Compliance Officers
- Financial Planners
- Reimbursement Specialists
- All Other Hospital Personnel
Interested in Pricing
Webinar Objectives:
- To Understand Why Charges Are
Important for APCs and DRGs
- To Appreciate the Cost Report and
Cost-to-Charge Ratios (CCRs)
- To Understand The Concept of
Charge Compression
- To Understand Special Charge
Development Techniques
- To Recognize When Charges May Be
Inappropriate
- To Recognize When Full Charges Are
Not Being Reported
- To Review Action Steps to Adjust
Pricing
A few of the Topics that will
be covered:
- Overview of Developing Chargemaster
Pricing and Charges
- The Need For Change
- Strategies for Adjusting Pricing
- Types of Payment Systems and Use of
Charge Data
- APCs
- DRGs
- Cost Based Payments
- Charge-Compression, Cost-to-Charge
Ratios and the Cost Report
- Tiered Pricing for Supplies and
Drugs
- Charge Compression and
Cost-to-Charge Ratios
- Cost Reporting Issues
- RTI International Recommendations
- CMS Use of Charges to Determine
Weights
- Converting Charges to Costs
- APCs
- MS-DRGs - Charge-Based vs.
Cost-Based
- Pricing and Charge Formulas
- Bundling versus Separately Charging
- Proper Charging Even Though No
Separate Payment
- Chargemaster Coordinator Action
Steps
Prerequisites for
Participating:
- A general understanding of the
chargemaster, the charge development process, and the cost report is assumed.
Attendance Certificate: Upon attending this course you will receive a 1.5
Contact Hour Attendance Certificate. There is usually a
reciprocal agreement between state associations to allow these to count for each state. If
you have any questions, please ask your state association.
Refund Policy:
Full tuition is refunded immediately on request if the participant has not been
sent the program materials and instructions. Once the instructions (including access codes) have been sent, a full refund will be issued only after the program runs and it is verified that the participant did not access the program
.