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2024 IPPS Final Rule – CMS’ Latest Changes
Event Date: 10/19/2023
Time: 3 pm ET | 2 pm CT | 1 pm MT | 12 pm PT
Duration of the training: 60 Minutes
Location: Online Webinar
By: Shannon Worsham-Cameron, MBA, MHIIM, CPC

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued its FY2024 final rule for the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS. Attend this session to implement this year’s changes by October 1st and to learn more about how these payment and quality policies could impact your health system in the coming fiscal year. The IPPS final rule contains major changes to and modifications to Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Groups (MS-DRG).

Expert Shannon Worsham-Cameron, MBA, MHIIM, CPC, will review CMS latest payment updates, wage index, prior-authorization, MS-DRG Changes and updates to the promoting Interoperability and Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting programs. She also discusses and share tips for ensuring compliant revenue.

Learning Objective:
  • Describe the most significant changes CMS finalized
  • Analyze the financial impact of CMS new changes
  • Discuss updates to quality programs
  • Explain how to comply with the final rule
Areas Covered in the Session:
  • Key financial changes for 2024
  • Payment updates
  • Wage Index
  • Modifications to the hospital value-based purchasing programs
  • Changes to the severity designation of diagnosis codes describing homelessness
  • Updates to the Promoting Interoperability and Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting programs
  • Prior authorizations
  • Utilization review
  • Access to behavioral health services
  • MS-DRG Changes
  • Changes to coding and MS-DRG designations
  • Updates to quality programs
  • Top operational challenges hospitals will face in 2024
  • Other key changes related to coding, billing, and charging inpatient services
  • Live Q&A Session
Suggested Attendees:
  • Healthcare Executives
  • Inpatient Coders and Billers
  • Revenue Cycle Directors/ Managers/ Staff
  • Revenue Integrity Directors/ Managers/ Staff
  • HIM Directors and Managers
  • Auditors
  • Coding Managers
  • Inpatient Coders
  • Billing Managers
  • Billers
  • Compliance Professionals
  • CDI Professionals
  • Utilization Review/ Utilization Management Directors, Managers, Staff
  • Case Management Directors and Managers and Staff
Presenter Biography:

Shannon Cameron, MBA, MHIIM, CPC, has years of medical revenue cycle experience, including chart acquisition, physician and facility coding and billing, accounts receivable management, reimbursement strategies for medical device manufacturers, provider education, and CPT® and APC/DRG analyses for medical facilities and physician groups across the U.S. Her expertise covers all areas of billing and reimbursement across multiple specialties.


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