Online courses include narrated instruction, slide presentation along with additional digital materials where applicable. Purchased content is placed in a personalized, password protected account portal, accessible from any web-enabled device for up to 6 months. Some courses require supplemental physical manuals such as a CPT, ICD-10-CM coding manual. Certification courses include supplementary digital workbook content, and the live proctored exam.
Important Technical Information
The most effective way to reduce denials is, of course, to prevent them before they occur! Arm your reimbursement staff with expert decision-making skills to help them quickly analyze trouble areas and make informed decisions about grouping denial codes.
Don’t beat your head against the wall trying to make heads or tails of your practice’s revenue cycle! Gain confidence in applying payer policy and improve your ability to effectively operationalize aspects of the revenue cycle in a medical practice.
Recorded sessions are adapted from PMI’s live class curriculum and include a digital course manual.
Learn what healthcare practices need to know about recent legislative updates including a thorough review of E/M changes for 2021 highlighting the AMA's most recent clarifications on E/M coding guidelines published on March 11, 2021.
Expand your knowledge of evaluation and management (E/M) coding audits.Adopt a comprehensive self-audit system used by professional auditors. Includes auditing tools to help you audit like a pro. A proactive stance is your best defense against an audit. UPDATED FOR 2021
The most effective way to reduce denials is, of course, to prevent them before they occur! Arm your reimbursement staff with expert decision-making skills to help them quickly analyze trouble areas and make informed decisions about grouping denial codes.
This is a comprehensive training curriculum that details the tasks and responsibilities of the medical front office. Sample forms and policies are included, and a Certificate of Competency is awarded for participants who pass the online assessment.
Don’t beat your head against the wall trying to make heads or tails of your practice’s revenue cycle! Gain confidence in applying payer policy and improve your ability to effectively operationalize aspects of the revenue cycle in a medical practice.
Healthcare attorneys Robert Liles and Michael Cook will explain important information that every medical office must understand about what value-based safe harbors are and their relationship to the Anti-Kickback Statute effective January 2021.
Sessions are adapted from live class lectures and include a physical course manual, support via discussion forum, and proctored exam.
The Certified Medical Coder (CMC)® is an advanced competency training program and certification for experienced medical coders working with outpatient medical claims. The CMC certification is awarded to individuals who have passed the comprehensive exam.
Get more for less when you customize your learning track with these package options.
This training bundle contains an E/M Chart Auditing course and the Certified Medical Chart Auditor (E/M), including the new 2021 E/M code guidelines. Complete at your own pace to prepare for the certification exam, included with purchase.
These courses address important changes in medical practice management, patient care, coding, billing, and compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Workplace safety enforcement will be more aggressive and robust under an OSHA governed by the Biden administration. Employers should take actions now to ensure that their safety and health programs are compliant with rules that are in place and will govern American workplaces.
PMI Basics courses are designed for anyone who is stepping into a new role in a medical office or wants to build a foundation for more advanced training.
These courses address important 2021 E/M changes for outpatient medical coding, billing, and compliance.
The time to get started on making sense of the guidelines to be utilized for Evaluation and Management coding in 2021 has arrived! E/M now has 5 sets of guidelines. Gain a clear understanding of what your office must implement by Jan. 1, 2021.
Learn the 2021 rules for Medical Decision Making by comparing and contrasting them to previous guidelines. The instructor explains how the various pieces of the patient encounter need to come together collectively to accurately reflect the complexity of the visit.
Learn the legal and technical sides of advanced telehealth services. Go through diagnosis coding changes that transpired due to the public health emergency; review special and new codes related to specimen collection and testing, and much more.
Examine new CPT guidance for outpatient E/M to ensure understanding, implementation, and compliance. A legal expert will explain what constitutes a “medically appropriate history and exam” and grapple with the issue of scoring MDM.
Learn the new documentation requirements, the subset of codes impacted, and the compliance outlook for E/M services in 2021 and beyond. This package includes 17 sessions presented by 18 experts at the Healthcare Administration Alliance Conference in Sept 2020.
Get hands-on experience auditing an E/M encounter based on the 2021 guidelines. Get tips for implementing training for yourself and your team of providers, coders, or auditors with reference tools offered by the AMA to support your success.
Dive into documentation and the “Medical Necessity” of the encounter - ensuring a Moderate or High-level Medical Decision Making is also supported. Get clear on when to bill legitimately and confidently for higher-level services based on Moderate - High MDM.
Pertinent facts are addressed regarding Medical Necessity and Nature of the Presenting Problem - essential factors in E/M coding so important to the process of determining the correct level of care documented for billing E/M codes.
Telemedicine services can significantly expand your patient base and boost your bottom line. This session explains regulatory and compliance issues from a healthcare attorney’s perspective, designed to keep your office in line with legal obligations.
In 2021, providers can choose to determine the level of service of an Office/Outpatient visit based on Medical Decision Making or Time. Get the facts on what is changing in the rules and discuss what will happen with the proposed time thresholds.