Mission:

Diverse Nurse Universe, LLC (DNU) is an NP-owned limited liability corporation whose mission is to assure the provision of educational offerings to heath care providers in the outpatient and inpatient settings.

Purpose:

In support of its mission, DNU is committed to providing and facilitating continuing education activities that focus on increasing productivity, adding value, and increasing the revenue stream of providers, hospitals, and medical groups. To meet this objective, DNU welcomes suggestions from participants for future course offerings. Ultimately, the employer, employee, and patient will be more informed of the coding essentials as a result of participant’s involvement in DNU course offerings.

About the Sponsor:

The workshop is sponsored by Diverse Nurse Universe, LLC, and is the second of multiple workshops that will focus on increasing the coding proficiency of health care providers while ensuring the provision of quality patient care.

Dear Colleague,

I am pleased to take part in the planning of this 2nd annual E/M Coding and Auditing Workshop on behalf of Diverse Nurse Universe, LLC (DNU) for personal and professional reasons. This workshop has been in the incubation stage for over a year and is finally coming to fruition. First, I have been practicing as an advanced practice nurse in an outpatient cardiology clinic for 10 years. During this time, experiences in relation to documentation, billing, and coding have informed me of my own strengths and weaknesses, as well as those of fellow providers. In addition, conversations with fellow providers and professional coders alerted each of us to the many coding concerns that are shared by all who participate in this billing process. These mutual concerns provided the impetus for the 1st annual E/M coding workshop.

We hope that as a result of attending this workshop, participants who work in inpatient and outpatient settings will become more proficient in coding accurately and have fewer undercoding and overcoding errors.

Shirley A. Saunders, MSN, APRN-BC, ANP