AudioEducator offers up-to-the-minute healthcare conferences to keep you in the forefront of your career! Their catalogue is brimming with webinars and audio conferences, on a wide array of topics, ranging from—medical billing, coding, compliance to the recently included updates on CPT changes, documentation, E/Mmodifiers, OIG work plan , fee schedule and more. Healthcare professionals get their hands on the most excellent healthcare conferences from the comfort of their house or office –without even spending a penny. AudioEducator also gives their users the flexibility of either attending the webinars, request for the replays of previous webinars, buy the CDs, or even the PDF transcripts. Collection Techniques for Anesthesia Practices. Speaker Kelly Dennis, MBA, ACS-AN, CANPC, CHCA, CPC, CPC-I , will take this informative session on Tuesday, July 23, 2013. Here are a few topics covered in the session:
Discuss background and reasons for difficulty in collecting
Understand claim denials and how to complain when insurance companies deny or mishandle claims sent “clean”
Review appeals process
Preview anesthesia web sites with patient payment ability
For more info & registration, visit http://www.audioeducator.com/anesthesia/anesthesia-coding-07232013.html
Common Audit Triggers That Make Physicians Vulnerable. Dorothy D. Steed, CPC-H-I, CHCC, CPUM, CPUR, ACS-OP, CCS-P, RCC, RMC, CPC-E/M, CPC-FP, CPAR , will take this event on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Here are a few topics covered in the session:
Look at the claim from the payer prospective. Does it make sense as submitted?
Does the E &M code seem reasonable based on diagnosis code(s) reported?
Watch using unspecified codes
Schedule periodic in-house audits using random samples on each provider
Track areas of weakness and implement educational feedback targeting improvement processes
Consider outside audit at least annually
Implement quality measures in your billing/coding process
Maintain a low profile. Do not engage in creative billing practices
For more info & registration, visit http://www.audioeducator.com/healthcare-compliance-and-hippa/avoiding-payer-audits-07112013.html
Clinical Documentation Improvement. Expert Dorothy D. Steed, CPC-H-I, CHCC, CPUM, CPUR, ACS-OP, CCS-P, RCC, RMC, CPC-E/M, CPC-FP, CPAR, will take this session on Thursday, July 25, 2013. This session will help you:
Determine the significance of abnormal lab results.
Show you how your documentation must reflect the correct measurement of lesions, when taken and inclusion of margins.
Highlight start and stop times as well as the methodology for infusions. You’ll likely uncover discrepancies in billing.
Here’s how your diagnostic testing and medications should be supported.
Clarify the depth of wounds and cause.
Include the severity of illness.
Ask, was the diagnosis present on admission?
For more info & registration, visit http://www.audioeducator.com/medical-coding-billing/clinical-documentation-improvement-072513.html
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