DecisionHealth Launches Online Training Courses to Assess and Improve Coding and Billing Competencies for Physician Office and Home Health Providers
Health care education leader, DecisionHealth, uses web instructional courses to help health care providers improve coding and billing competencies. New Online Training Center offers course content and corresponding assessments to drive tangible results including improved coding and billing productivity, greater accuracy, and where appropriate, increased billing opportunity.
Gaithersburg, MD, June 21, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Building on its history as the leading provider of highly-rated coding and billing information and training, DecisionHealth® enters the online, distance-learning educational space this month with the release of 16 self-paced, web courses.
The new DecisionHealth Online Training Center offers course catalogues for home health and physician office professionals. Each course targets the competencies critical to accurate documentation, coding and/or billing through a mix of instructional information (including supplemental source references) and interactive exercises that prompt the learner to apply comprehension of key learning points. Throughout all DecisionHealth courses, true-to-life patient scenarios are provided to enhance the learning experience while giving the learner an opportunity to practice the exact decision-making required to solve day-to-day reimbursement challenges.
As the leader in reimbursement news, analysis and guidance, as well as sponsor of home health and specialty professional certification offered through the Board of Medical Specialty Coding, DecisionHealth is uniquely positioned to target competency deficiencies that plague healthcare providers and cause unintended reimbursement errors.
Planning to add new online courses each month, DecisionHealth has initially released a total of 7 CEU-approved courses for home health coders and clinicians and 9 for physician office coders and billers. The course offerings range from fundamentals to advanced and can be purchased one at a time or in libraries.
With an emphasis on competency development, all DecisionHealth courses include a Final Assessment in which the learner must earn a passing grade of 80% in order to qualify for satisfactory course completion. In the event of an unsatisfactory grade, the learner can repeat any part or the full course and then retake the test.
“Healthcare providers expect a return on their investment in training and want assurance that their staff has achieved mastery of the information. Our course content and corresponding assessments drive for tangible results including improved coding and billing productivity, greater accuracy, and where appropriate increased billing opportunity,” says DecisionHealth President Doreen Bieryla.
About Decision Health
DecisionHealth (www.decisionhealth.com), a division of UCG, publishes information services for the home health care, physician office and hospital provider marketplaces. Its more than 35 newsletters, including marketplace leaders Home Health Line and Part B News, as well as hundreds of annual live and audio professional seminars, cover challenges as wide ranging as Medicare coding and reimbursement, Joint Commission accreditation, benchmarks and payment, and compliance with health care fraud and abuse and HIPAA laws. DecisionHealth also publishes ICD, CPT and HCPCS code books, as well as solutions-based and referential web site portals and desk-top applications.
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The new DecisionHealth Online Training Center offers course catalogues for home health and physician office professionals. Each course targets the competencies critical to accurate documentation, coding and/or billing through a mix of instructional information (including supplemental source references) and interactive exercises that prompt the learner to apply comprehension of key learning points. Throughout all DecisionHealth courses, true-to-life patient scenarios are provided to enhance the learning experience while giving the learner an opportunity to practice the exact decision-making required to solve day-to-day reimbursement challenges.
As the leader in reimbursement news, analysis and guidance, as well as sponsor of home health and specialty professional certification offered through the Board of Medical Specialty Coding, DecisionHealth is uniquely positioned to target competency deficiencies that plague healthcare providers and cause unintended reimbursement errors.
Planning to add new online courses each month, DecisionHealth has initially released a total of 7 CEU-approved courses for home health coders and clinicians and 9 for physician office coders and billers. The course offerings range from fundamentals to advanced and can be purchased one at a time or in libraries.
With an emphasis on competency development, all DecisionHealth courses include a Final Assessment in which the learner must earn a passing grade of 80% in order to qualify for satisfactory course completion. In the event of an unsatisfactory grade, the learner can repeat any part or the full course and then retake the test.
“Healthcare providers expect a return on their investment in training and want assurance that their staff has achieved mastery of the information. Our course content and corresponding assessments drive for tangible results including improved coding and billing productivity, greater accuracy, and where appropriate increased billing opportunity,” says DecisionHealth President Doreen Bieryla.
About Decision Health
DecisionHealth (www.decisionhealth.com), a division of UCG, publishes information services for the home health care, physician office and hospital provider marketplaces. Its more than 35 newsletters, including marketplace leaders Home Health Line and Part B News, as well as hundreds of annual live and audio professional seminars, cover challenges as wide ranging as Medicare coding and reimbursement, Joint Commission accreditation, benchmarks and payment, and compliance with health care fraud and abuse and HIPAA laws. DecisionHealth also publishes ICD, CPT and HCPCS code books, as well as solutions-based and referential web site portals and desk-top applications.
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Tonya Nevin
301-287-2454
www.decisionhealth.com
http://www.decisionhealth.com/careertrainingcenter
Tonya Nevin
301-287-2454
www.decisionhealth.com
http://www.decisionhealth.com/careertrainingcenter
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