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The 2024 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), plus half a dozen other final payment rules have arrived. To help you and your team prepare for the onslaught of new codes, Leigh Poland, vice president of coding service line for AGS Health, will offer practical tips and best practices so you can effectively adapt to the final rule’s coding changes, thus helping to ensure compliance, and optimizing reimbursement.

All this and more will be covered during the next live edition of the weekly Internet radio broadcast, which will feature these outstanding segments and thought leaders:

• Coding Report: Laurie Johnson, senior healthcare consultant with Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC, will be on board with the latest coding news.
  
  
• Coffee Chat: The aforementioned Laurie Johnson and Dr. Erica Remer will discuss aspects of the 2024 IPPS final rule, which they will analyze on Aug. 15, 16, and 17 during the ICD10monitor IPPS Summit.
  
  
• SDoH Report: Tiffany Ferguson, a subject-matter expert on the social determinants of health (SDoH), will report on the news that’s happening at the intersection of coding and the SDoH.
  
  
• CDI Report: Fran Jurcak, chief clinical strategist for Iodine Software, will report on how medical record reviews without any query identification can be tedious and often result in job dissatisfaction.
• News Desk: Timothy Powell, CPA, will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.
  
  
• TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.