Are you ready for Pay for Performance (P4P)?

Ever since the 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine, To Err is Human, there has been an intense focus on improving the quality of healthcare as well as on Pay for Performance (P4P).  CMS, employers, and advocacy groups have made efforts to restructure payment systems related to the quality of care delivered.  During 2005-2006, 36 bills were passed in 24 states related to health strategies to improve patient care.

To answer your questions related to P4P, BridgeFront is offering a complimentary webinar in its UB-04 series of webinars on the topic of Present on Admission (POA).

In an information packed 30 minutes, Claudia Birkenshaw will speak on the POA indicator and clarify the facts behind this critical change, including:

• When POA must be reported
• The indicator codes and their definitions for POA
• How the clinical quality indicator for diagnosis reporting, called Present on Admission (POA), relates to the healthcare billing form used throughout the country, the UB form
• How POA will impact your organization's daily processes, the revenue cycle, billers, and coders, and HIM (Health Information Management)
• The changes on the UB-04 form related to POA and how it is connected to your current billing and coding processes
• Discussion of a plan that includes education with your physicians, coders, and staff in order to ensure a successful transition to report POA

Complicated regulations and changes in billing and coding rules have created new challenges for hospitals. During this complimentary Webinar, critical changes will be identified related to the conversion from the paper UB-92 to the UB-04 and the subsequent electronic version, the 837I-004010/004010A to the 005010. Claudia Birkenshaw, a nationally recognized expert, author, and speaker on the UB-04, is presenting this key information in preparation for the transition to the UB-04 in May 2007.

This webinar is available to you in an on-demand format (recorded) so that you can listen whenever your schedule will allow. Simply register and begin:

Claudia Birkenshaw is a national educator and speaker with more than 25 years of healthcare finance experience. She has been an active participant of the National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC) and is currently the alternate for National HFMA. She was the chair of the Michigan Uniform Billing Committee (SUBC). Claudia is also the author of the UB-92 Handbook for Hospital Billing and UB-04 Handbook for Hospital Billing published by the American Hospital Association.