Description: CPT, NCCI, ICD, CCI, DRG, APC, PTP – understanding healthcare claims involve a dizzying array of code sets and payment methodologies, and yet the claim form is the intersection of health plan affordability, provider payment, and data analysis. This webcast will cover: • The code sets used in medical coding • Types of correct coding policies implemented by CMS and commercial payers • Payment integrity strategies to drive health plan affordability • Data analytics approaches leveraging medical coding knowledge

Description: This webcast will walk through several statistical methods for imputing race and ethnicity from U.S. datasets, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, talking about how to use them and evaluating their accuracy, and telling you where you can get code packages as well as a free dataset to try the methods out.