New Books
Documentation for
Medical Practices
Ideal for classroom
use and for all levels of healthcare
professionals in
medical practices,
Documentation for Medical Practices is the
most comprehensive documentation
guide available. It includes coverage for
physicians, advanced practice nurses,
physician assistants, and other clinical staff. An accompanying CD-ROM
includes sample forms and electronic
resources.
Revenue Cycle Management Best Practices
This book is designed
to help health in-
formation pro-
fessionals better
understand and
participate in rev-
enue cycle management in their
facilities. It offers examples of how
facilities can transition revenue cycle
management from a departmental fo-
cus to an interdisciplinary approach.
A CD-ROM includes:
x Benchmarking, case-mix, and
managed care pricing examples
x Sample forms, logs, question-
naires, policies, and tracking tools
x The Office of Inspector General’s
Compliance Guidance for Hospitals
x AHIMA’s “Recovery Audit Contrac-
tor (RAC) Toolkit”
x AHIMA’s “Clinical Documentation
Improvement (CDI) Toolkit”
x AHIMA practice briefs
x Slides covering key points from
each chapter
x Links to references and resources
For more information or to order, visit
www.ahimastore.org.
Upcoming Meetings
AHIMA Academy for ICD-10-CM/PCS
The AHIMA Academy for ICD- 10 is a
dynamic training program that teaches
coding professionals the ICD-10-CM/
PCS coding system while instructing
them on how to train other professionals on the system. The academy includes a combination of online courses
(self-paced) and face-to-face training.
After successfully completing the online and face-to-face training portions,
attendees may choose to complete an
assessment in order to receive an AHIMA Trainer Certificate.
In order to provide you with the most
current and accurate information on
ICD- 10 with the most recent code updates, AHIMA will start conducting
2011 ICD- 10 Academies in the second
quarter. The Ingenix code books provided as part of the program will also
be updated by the publisher early in the
second quarter and attendees will receive the most recent copy.
The dates for the 2011 AHIMA Academy for ICD-10-CM/PCS (three days) are:
The dates for the 2011 AHIMA Academy for ICD-10-CM (one and a half
days) are:
Other Upcoming Meetings
Be sure to make your calendars for
AHIMA’s other upcoming meetings:
x AHIMA’s Annual ICD- 10 Summit,
April 11–12
x Computer-assisted Coding Sum-
mit, April 13
x Long-term and Post-acute Care
HIT Summit, June 13–14
x Faculty Development Institute and
Assembly on Education Sympo-
sium, July 23–27
x Legal EHR Conference, August
15–16
x Privacy Institute, October 1–2
x 83rd AHIMA Convention and Ex-
hibit, Clinical Coding Meeting, and
Pre- and Post-Convention Work-
shops, October 1–6
For more information or to register for
these events, visit www.ahima.org/
events.
Preparing for the Year Reader
Resources
Books
x Basic Current Procedural Ter-
minology/HCPCS Coding, 2011
Edition (AC200611)
x Procedure Coding and Reim-
bursement for Physician Ser-
vices: Applying Current Proce-
dure Terminology and HCPCS
(AC201311)
x Transitioning to ICD- 10 CM/
PCS: The Essential Guide to
General Equivalence Mapping
(GEMs) (AC202810)
x Pocket Guide of ICD-10-CM
and ICD-10-PCS (AC203010)
x ICD-10-CM Coder Training
Manual (AC206810)
x ICD-10-PCS Coder Training
Manual (AC207810)
For more information or to order,
visit www.ahimastore.org.
