Medical Record Keeping

• With no more than 50 participants, this intensive, two-day program incorporates instruction from physician experts, compliance and coding experts, attorneys, judges and a medical librarian;
• Areas of focus include the law and the medical record, coding and documentation, medical informatics, the EHR and HIPAA;
  
• A sample of participants' blinded chart notes are reviewed by a physician and a compliance expert prior to the course and used as a learning tool during a chart review workshop.
  

• Describe quality charting behavior.
• Describe the laws pertaining to medical documentation
  
• Apply the principles of correct billing procedures to medical documentation to properly code for services rendered
• Identify current technological innovations to improve medical documentation and information retrieval

Note: The Medical Record Keeping course starts at 7:00 AM on Day One and ends at 5:00 PM on Day Two. You must fully participate in every session in order to receive your certificate of completion. Please keep this in mind when booking your travel arrangements.

Meeting Location

Doubletree by Hilton Downtown San Diego

Address

Reservations

This course is designed to address medical record keeping deficiencies in physicians as identified by state medical boards and private institutions.

The UCSD PACE Medical Record Keeping course is offered to all U.S. physicians and interested medical office personnel.

The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for Physicians. The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 17.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

California Assembly Bill 1195 requires continuing medical education activities with patient care components to include curriculum in the subjects of cultural and linguistic competency. It is the intent of the bill, which went into effect on July 1, 2006, to encourage physicians and surgeons, CME providers in the state of California, and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to meet the cultural and linguistic concerns of a diverse patient population through appropriate professional development. 
Cultural competency is defined as a set of integrated attitudes, knowledge, and skills that enables health care professionals or organizations to care effectively for patients from diverse cultures, groups, and communities.  Linguistic competency is defined as the ability of a physician or surgeon to provide patients who do not speak English or who have limited ability to speak English, direct communication in the patient’s primary language. 
The University of California San Diego CME (UCSD CME) has developed several initiatives to incorporate cultural and linguistic competency into CME activities with patient care components. Compliance with AB1195 will be ensured by including cultural and linguistic elements into the educational planning and content of the program and/or by distributing cultural and linguistic resources to CME program attendees. 
Enclosed in this package you will find a brief review of federal and state law regarding linguistic access and services along with a list of useful resources. For additional resources and a copy of AB1195, please visit our website at http://cme.ucsd.edu.

All cancellation requests must be received in writing to be eligible for a refund. Cancellation requests by email should be sent to: ucpace@ucsd.edu. Cancellation requests by fax should be sent to (619) 543-2353, attention PACE Office Coordinator. Cancellation requests by mail should be sent to UC San Diego PACE Program, 200 West Arbor Drive, Mail Code 8204, San Diego, CA 92103, attention PACE Office Coordinator.

Once a cancellation request has been received, a refund will be issued according to the following refund table:

*Cancellation Date: For cancellation requests received on a normal business day before 5 pm (San Diego time), the date the request is received will be your official Cancellation Date. For cancellation requests received after 5pm (San Diego time), your Cancellation Date will be on the next business day.

For the purpose of this document, one business day means 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday, excluding all UC San Diego observed holidays. For a full list of UC San Diego observed holidays, please visit the UCSD Blink holidays page.