Quality care and accurate pay for performance (P4P) begin with a joint effort between healthcare providers and Present on Admission (POA) coders. Be sure you and your staff can answer these vital questions:

	What are the POA indicator codes and their definitions?
	How does the clinical quality indicator for dx reporting, called POA, relate to the UB form – the healthcare billing form used throughout the country?
	Do you understand how POA will impact your organization's daily processes, the revenue cycle, HIM (Health Information Management), billers, and coders?
	How does an incorrect POA indicator negatively impact quality of care?
	What are specific guidelines surrounding POA indicators?

As required by law effective October 1, 2007, all general acute-care healthcare providers must identify whether a diagnosis was present upon an inpatient admission. This concept was mandated due to many concerns about quality healthcare and the government overpaying because of hospital errors. After many years of planning the POA indicator was added to the UB form for inpatient Medicare claims. Learn more by viewing our free webinar.

Learn the importance and history of POA coding – written by a nationally recognized author of the UB-04 Handbook for Hospital Billing, published by the American Hospital Association.

Listen to a complimentary webinar to answer your questions. BridgeFront offers a complimentary webinar in its UB-04 series of webinars on the topic of Present on Admission (POA). Register today.

Contact BridgeFront at 866-447-2211 or via email at info@bridgefront.com.