Review on Sepsis Coding - Medical Coding

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What services are we looking at and therefore what’s statistics that this person needs to be aware of for those key codes? They could do just the administration services but they could also be doing auto liabilities, professional liability, maybe medical malpractice. They’re pulling the statistics, pulling these codes to find out what the payers need to be aware of as well as the provider.
The next page here will give another list of some of the top things that they provide for. Loss and control programs, emergency response plans, these are all things that are based on statistics. Loss and adjusting, industrial hygiene inspections, how about return to work programs, worker’s compensation audits.
If you are a coder and you’ve ever met a coder that’s involved in workman’s comp, everything about workman’s comp is a separate identity in and above itself. The payer for workman’s comp does stuff different than anybody else.
Also, forensic accounting. When we say forensic accounting, what are we talking about exactly? Forensics go in and do an investigation when say somebody is injured or say it’s a homicide, forensic files and things. They go in and they investigate to see what was the cause of the problem or what was the cause of anything. Maybe there’s an uptick in some diabetic encounters or maybe it’s going down. They want to know why, so they do a forensic audit. Again, that could be what our person is talking about.
They also involve a lot of times counseling, and again, that because the statistics that they’re doing. Only the statistics, they could do counseling and they could do other services. Again, it’s only limited to how big the organization is that you hire to do these services for you, but most of these will do counseling as well. Not only are they identifying what you need to have done or they’re providing a service where they’re coming in and doing the behind the scenes, the business side for you, but when they see a statistic that needs attention, they’ll come in and give counseling and provide counseling.
You could be hired as a coder or through an attorney’s office to help with that. I know that [0:40:34] used to be with us. A lot of you guys know her. She has lots and lots of credentials and actually, she worked for an attorney and all of those statistics were specifically so that she could train and counsel these organizations that were struggling and having problems.