Training Modules
• Safe, Smart Billing and Coding: Evaluation and Management
• Billing and Coding Nurse Practitioner Services in the Acute Care Setting
• Billing and Coding Critical Care: For Nurse Practitioners
Safe, Smart Billing and Coding (2017): “An educational module for nurse practitioners,
physicians and physician assistants”
Includes:
7 training modules:
(Modules are in Powerpoint; Powerpoint viewer is included)
- Billing NP services
- Coding – background info
- Coding – the history
- Coding – the examination
- Coding – medical decision making
- Coding – 10 pearls
- How reimbursement is changing
The Documentation Guidelines (in full and simplified by the author, in chart form)
Coding exercises with auditor’s notes.
A coding test. (All text documents are in Word.)
This module was developed by the Law Office of Carolyn Buppert based on Medicare rules, manuals,
and transmittals, and in response to a multitude of questions from clinicians.
Billing and Coding Nurse Practitioner Services in the Acute Care Setting
Includes:
6 training modules:
(Modules are in Powerpoint)
- Billing NP services in acute care
- Coding – background info
- Coding – the history in acute care
- Coding – the examination in acute care
- Coding – medical decision making in acute care
- Coding – pearls
Documentation Guidelines from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Coding exercises.
An auditing scorecard. (All text documents are in Word.)
This module was developed by the Law Office of Carolyn Buppert based on Medicare rules, manuals, and transmittals, and in response to a multitude of questions from clinicians.
Billing and Coding Critical Care: For Nurse Practitioners
Includes:
3 training modules and a guidance document from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS):
(Modules are in Powerpoint)
This module was developed by the Law Office of Carolyn Buppert based on Medicare rules, manuals, and transmittals, and in response to a multitude of questions from clinicians.