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HCPro's Boot Camps specialize in intensive hands-on medical coding and billing training. To register for a class, click on the course in which you with to participate.

This two–and–a–half day course will provide you with sustainable solutions to the most common accreditation challenges. Participants will learn the skills necessary to interpret accreditation standards and regulations, implement continuous survey readiness plans, integrate standards with organizational policies and procedures, and identify future trends likely to affect organizational compliance.

Sponsored by ACDIS (Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists), this four–day boot camp provides specific education covering MS–DRGs and reimbursement under the IPPS, ICD–9–CM coding rules and regulations, medical record review and physician query techniques, and CDI program benchmarking and compliance initiatives. The class is designed for new Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) specialists or intermediate CDI specialists in need of more formalized training.

Taught by AAPC® certified instructors, this intensive, one–week medical coding course focuses on ICD–9–CM, CPT, and HCPCS coding for physician and hospital outpatient services. Course content is specifically designed to help participants acquire the knowledge necessary to successfully complete AAPC's CPC® exam. The exam is offered as an optional add–on to this course for those students who want to obtain certification as a professional coder.

The course emphasizes inpatient coding guidelines, abstracting inpatient medical records, and DRG (diagnosis related groups) assignment. This intensive, one–week course also focuses on ICD–9–CM Diagnosis (Volumes 1 and 2), and Procedure Coding for Inpatient Hospital Services (Volume 3).

Available only as an on–site program for group training, this course covers the fundamentals and intricacies of E/M coding and how to perform effective E/M audits. The agenda is based on a two–-day program and designed for both coding and auditing professionals. However, course length and content are customizable to meet the specific needs of your organization.

With the introduction of the Five–Star Rating System, CMS has turned inconspicuous data into clear, transparent, publicly reported information. During this intensive, four–day course, expert faculty will cover various topics including an overview of the Five–Star Rating System, methods for staying compliant with the new and upcoming F–Tags, strategies for coping with surveyors and survey teams, and ways to minimize and fight deficiencies under the current regulatory environment.

In four days, you will obtain a detailed understanding of major healthcare laws, regulations, and interpretive guidelines applicable to hospitals with an emphasis on the real–world application of those rules. Boot camp agenda items include physician self–referral law (Stark Law), anti–kickback statute, the False Claims Act, EMTLA, HIPAA, Antitrust laws, civil monetary penalties guidance, and nonprofit hospital issues.

Based on the rules and requirements for hospitals in the NFPA's 2000 Life Safety Code, this on–site boot camp is perfect for organizations in need of group training. The intensive course agenda gives participants the knowledge and confidence to recognize how the 2000 Life Safety Code's general provisions apply to hospitals; explain the 2000 Life Safety Code's healthcare occupancy provisions and how to use them; and recall the format of the 2000 Life Safety Code and how to navigate it's healthcare occupancy requirements, exceptions, and annex notes.

During this comprehensive, one–week course, expert faculty present topics on Medicare coverage, billing, coding and payment for hospital outpatient and inpatient services. The program is highly technical and focuses on the Medicare "rules" (including statues, regulations, CMS manuals, and program memos) applicable to hospitals services with an emphasis on operational application of those rules.

Topics covered during this intensive, four–day course include Medicare coverage, billing, coding and payment for long term care services, including skilled nursing facility (SNF) services, and Medicare Part B services provided to nursing facility residents. The objective of the class is to provide participants with a detailed understanding of the Medicare "rules" applicable to long term care services.

A popular on–site class for group training, this customizable program features Medicare coverage, billing, coding, and payment for physician and non–physician practitioner services. The course is technically oriented and focuses on Medicare regulations and guidelines applicable to professional services.