Join NJHA Strategic Partner Intraprise Health for a feature presentation on its powerful mobile wayfinding app, appropriately called Wayfinding. By presenting directions in the most cognitively friendly manner, Wayfinding lowers patient and visitor anxiety and improves consumer experience, all while promoting your brand and decreasing no shows and last-minute cancellations.

Session I: You Can Have it All! ICD-10 Coder Productivity & Quality
Discover solutions to improve coder performance. Learn how to identify issues decreasing coding productivity and quality in your department and how to increase the productivity while improving the quality of your coders using ICD-10.

Session II: Quality Indicators/Medical Necessity
Gain an understanding of the Quality Indicators (Severity of Illness/Risk of Mortality) that impact reporting. The participant will also gain an understanding of the importance of documentation for Medical Necessity. We will also look at Social Determinants of Care, and why it is important for the complete coding picture.

Session III: Query Do’s & Don’ts
Gain an understanding of the importance of the query process while learning the do’s and don’ts of query writing.  You will be walked through the process with real query examples for debridement, MI’s, urosepsis, CHF, BMI, and more.

Session IV: E&M Coding and Documentation for Hospital Coders
Learn the ins-and-outs of proper E&M code selection. Gain an understanding of the documentation requirements necessary to avoid denials. Changes on the horizon for 2019 and beyond.

Session V: E&M Coding and Documentation for Physician Offices
In the professional coding and billing setting, learn the importance of complete and accurate documentation for E&M code assignment. Changes on the horizon for 2019 and beyond.

Skilled Nursing Facilities are preparing to transition from the current RUGs IV PPS reimbursement model to the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) effective October 1, 2019. There are two primary coding changes that will impact reimbursement under PDPM. The first one is the change from the use of the MDS Section G to using Section GG for the functional components for the PT, OT and nursing Case Mix Indexes (CMI). The second big change is using diagnosis coding as the primary reason for the SNF stay to support the patient characteristics for PT, OT, ST, Nursing and the Non-Therapy Ancillary (NTA) CMI and reimbursement. This seminar will focus on both the know-how to identify coding inaccuracies, CMS’ intent regarding correct diagnosis and Section GG coding and improved documentation to support both diagnosis coding and Section GG coding. Expert faculty will lead participants through real examples to develop coding mastery.

Passions, and the deeper inner purpose from which they emanate, play a pivotal role in how leaders manage talent, the way teams work and communicate effectively, and how each member of an organization engages with the challenges of the business to achieve outstanding results. In today’s highly commoditized world, nurse leaders face challenges on leveraging not only the skills of their team, but also understanding and harnessing the passions of each individual in order to build and maintain a competitive edge and healthy workforce environment.

Every individual has gifts and talents that can make a lasting impact. However, only a minority of people utilize those gifts and talents to live up to their full potential. Tying your gifts and talents to research with your personal purpose and passion, not only leads to a more successful career, but a significant one.

Most organizations focus on skills and experience when developing top talent or creating teams, but overlook the important factor that determines long-term success. In a word, that factor is “passion.” If you ever thought about doing research but wondered whether you have the ability, this conference will provide the tools for novice and expert researchers to build and refine skills.

Join ONL NJ in exploring the elements for conducting research and how to ignite your passion to transform practice through research.

The effects of opioid misuse and overdose have become a national epidemic. Addressing this urgent problem requires a multi-pronged approach to achieve improvement. Hospitals can help to achieve the goal of reducing harm from opioid medications through strategic opioid stewardship programs. Join the New Jersey Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (NJHIIN) for this opioid stewardship workshop to learn how your organization can take an interdisciplinary approach to improve opioid-related outcomes.

The Institute for Quality and Patient Safety has been funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to lead providers as a Perinatal Quality Collaborative (PQC), one of only 13 in the country. The Quality Institute is partnering with stakeholders, including payers, in a more structured format to improve the quality of care and safety that New Jersey mothers and infants deserve. NJPQC supports New Jersey birthing hospitals in reducing maternal morbidity and mortality through the implementation of the Obstetric Hemorrhage and Severe Hypertension bundles. In accordance with the Alliance for Innovation in Maternal Health (AIM), this initiative assists participating hospitals with the adoption of safety bundles by developing systems that promote readiness, recognition and response to obstetric hemorrhage and hypertension.

Please join us at the NJPQC Reducing Maternal Morbidity: QI Bootcamp, as we take steps in achieving these quality improvement goals.

Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to specialized medical care for people with life-limiting illnesses. It focuses on providing people with relief from the symptoms, pain, physical stress, and the mental stress of the terminal diagnosis. The goal of such therapy is to improve quality of life for both the person and their family. Evidence as of 2016 supports improvement in quality of life elements of palliative care.

NJ Sharing Network is the non-profit organization responsible for the recovery and placement of donated organs and tissue for those in need of a life-saving transplant. Nearly 4,000 New Jersey residents are currently awaiting transplantation. The New Jersey Sharing Network is also part of the national recovery system, which is in place for the 115,000 people on the national waiting list.

Studies have shown that when organizations come together in an all-teach, all-learn environment, best practices around organ and tissue donation are enhanced and outcomes for increased organ donation are improved. The work of NJ Sharing Network, in collaboration with its hospital partners seek to share knowledge based on organ and tissue donation advocacy in order to spread awareness and increase the number or organ and tissue donations across the state.

The updates to the CPT Manual for 2020 are effective January 1, 2020.  Changes will include revised and deleted codes, and new codes and modifiers.  This program will prepare health information coders to apply the new and revised codes accurately.
Webinar participants will gain an understanding of how to:

• Implement changes in your facility to accurately report the 2020 CPT codes


• Reduce denials by reporting the 2020 codes accurately and timely by the Han. 1st effective data