Dementia 2025

Presenter: Tamela Rodgers-Phillips, RHIT, CPC

Time: 46.31 minutes

Description: Dementia is a progressive disease affecting millions of Americans and their families. This webinar offers a deep dive into dementia, including ICD-10-CM coding for 2025, and how CMS's GUIDE Model can provide support to your patients and their families affected by this disease.

Objectives:

• Define dementia and its stages, symptoms, and types.
• Distinguish ICD-10-CM coding for dementia in 2025.
• Understand the aim of the GUIDE Model for those living with dementia.

Key Topics:

• Dementia Definition Severity of Dementia
• Dementia: Behavioral and Physical Symptoms
• Dementia Types
• Brief Overview of Query Concepts
• Dementia: ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting FY 2025 Page 43 of 120
• Dementia: Etiology/Manifestation Convention
• Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience Model

Speaker: Tamela Rodgers-Phillips

Tamela Rodgers-Phillips is an administrative healthcare professional with over 20 years' experience in the revenue cycle to include medical billing, medical coding, clinical documentation improvement, process improvement, and medical coding instructing.

She is a graduate of DeVry University and holds two certifications: RHIT (Registered Health Information Technician) and CPC (Certified Professional Coder).