To start your project delivery, you need to determine what topic your training will cover and submit this topic in Week 2 for approval. The topic you select will be the broad topic in which all 12 monthly in-service meetings should fit into.

For the Course Project, you are the coding manager at DeVry University Medical Center. You will create a 12-month in-service training schedule for your coding staff's monthly education meetings. Your in-service training schedule needs to reflect 12 different topics that relate to coding and reimbursement. You will select one of your 12 monthly topics and actually create the PowerPoint presentation and provide the training to your coding staff on that in-service topic.

To start your project delivery, you need to determine what topic your training will cover and submit this topic in Week 2 for approval. The topic you select will be the broad topic in which all 12 monthly in-service meetings should fit into.

A content outline for your in-service schedule and PowerPoint is due by the end of Week 4, indicating how you plan to address project expectations and the primary sources of information you have identified. Your instructor will provide feedback on both your topic selection and project outline.

An MS-DRG paper that compares the DRG system to the MS-DRG system that you will use to educate your coding staff on the differences and why the changes were made is due in Week 5. The paper should be 2-3 pages in length.

The final in-service schedule and PowerPoint with speaker narrations are due by the end of Week 7. The in-service schedule should include the meeting topic, date, duration of meeting, and location. The PowerPoint should be a minimum of 10 slides with graphics, images, and speaker narrations, as well as a reference slide.