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Coding Track:
Specialty Coding Session: OB/GYN
Specialty Coding Session: Cardiology
Specialty Coding Session: General Surgery
Specialty Coding Session: Orthopedics
Specialty Coding Session: Primary Care
Get down to business in your specialty. It’s time for some specialty-specific training to help you handle some of the complex coding issues that may be tripping you up when you are coding and billing in your specialty. Receive examples and tips that will improve your overall productivity and effectiveness as a coder.
Modifiers: Oh the places you can go
Those little two digit numbers can be so tricky but they are worth the added effort because they can carry a lot of weight. We will put their usage into plain English. Use them to augment your CPT codes and get your claims paid! But you must understand proper use to ensure accurate reimbursement without sending up a red flag. This session will put your apprehensions about modifiers to rest.
Billing Consults: Ensuring correct claims every time
Are you still using those confirmatory consult codes? They were deleted years ago from CPT®. So many of us still get confused about when a consult can be billed and when to use another E&M code? Your instructor will take you through a step-by-step, easy, “3 R’s” process that will help you learn when you can and cannot bill a consult.
What They Didn’t Teach You in Coding Class
You studied hard and passed your exam – you made yourself an “expert” in coding! But wait, there’s more? Once you’ve been indoctrinated as a coder, you realize that there is so much more beyond the books to being a successful coder. You quickly begin to see how your role affects overall practice performance and compliance. In this session, we will take a holistic view of coding to help you maximize your performance as a coding professional.
Coding to the Nines
Learn all those fun E&M codes that begin with a “9”. This session will take you through the essential steps that show you when to bill for an admission, follow-up, discharge, critical care and preventive medicine services visit. You will even learn how to deal with some of the trickier circumstances such as when the patient is in a skilled nursing facility or how to bill if the provider makes a home visit? There’s a code for them all.
ICD-10: Ready or not here it comes….really, so they say.
Fasten your seatbelts. It’s official. You and the rest of the nation will soon embark on a journey to convert your practice coding system to ICD-10. While the implementation date seems far off, it’s really not when you think about the conversion that must take place to get your practice on board. Every practice must prepare for this important transition and test these new classification codes well before the deadline. Find out what you need to do to prepare now for those new 10 digit alpha-numeric codes.
Observation: To bill or not to bill
Get expert training on when you can bill an observation code. The rules for this can be confusing. We will help spell it out. The key is determining whether the amount of time the provider spent with the patient is sufficient. It also depends on where the observation took place. Learn more about when the observation codes should be billed and when a discharge visit can be billed from the observation unit.
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