Pre Conference Event: Specialty Workshops Just for YOU!!

Join our subject matter experts in exciting and engaging discussions thru an interactive workshop setting. Widen your skill, knowledge and understanding of your practice while strengthening your networking activities in any of our 3-hour specialty workshop designed just for you! Hurry…seats are limited!

Specialty Track	Schedule	Workshop	Description	Presenter
Anesthesia	Dec 1st, 2011. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Anesthesia 101-Basic Anesthesia Concepts	Whether you are brand new to the specialty of anesthesia or you just want to brush up on the basics, attend this A-Z presentation on the basics of anesthesia coding and billing. This interactive session will give you a solid foundation on which to build your anesthesia knowledge and provide an atmosphere in which to get your questions answered. Get on track to being an ace anesthesia coder.	Judi Blaszczyk, RN, CPC®, ACS-PM
Ambulatory Surgery	Dec 1st, 2011. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM	ASC Coding and Billing Concepts and Update	Learn about changes in 2012, appropriate use of Medicare edits, modifiers and overview of CMS billing guidelines IN 2012.	Cristina Bentin, CPC®-H, CCS-P, CMA and Joanne Schade-Boyce
Billing and Collections	Dec 1st, 2011. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Performing a Successful Audit	Planning for an audit is equally as important as the execution. Ensure a successful audit by planning ahead and performing the audit with integrity.	Joseph Newsome, CPC®, CPC®-I, CPC®O, CEMC™, HCS, HAS
Cardiology	Dec 1st, 2011. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Cardiology: What Am I Missing?	Cardiology has seen numerous changes in procedural coding perspective in the past 3 years. You have seen and heard about considerable information those. The issues that remain for the cardiology coder/biller go beyond simple code changes. Getting physicians to code for co-morbidities, HCC considerations, l and diagnostic specificity are some of the challenges facing the cardiology office/department billing area to name a few. Remember to also factor in the need for ICD-10 education as we approach the 2013 deadline. Lastly, has your practice been approached to become involved in sleep studies? All these topics and your questions will be answered in this pre-conference Cardiology What am I Missing? event.	Jill Young, CPC®, CEDC™, CIMC™
Family Practice	Dec 1st, 2011. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Understand E/M Documentation Requirements and Common Documentation Errors	This workshop will provide a comprehensive understanding of the components of E/M documentation. Each component will be analyzed using actual examples from medical record progress notes. Pulling together the results for each component to determine the final code level will be demonstrated and discussed. Documentation tips will be provided along with common documentation errors and omissions. BONUS HANDOUT: Sample documentation templates for new and established patient progress notes!	Maggie Mac, CPC®, CEMC™, CHC, CMM, ICCE
General Surgery	Dec 1st, 2011. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Conducting Your Own In-House Surgery Audit	Surgery claims represent the single, largest revenue for your surgical practice. Inaccurate, incomplete or suboptimal coding could result in substantial losses to your surgical practice revenue. Part I of this presentation will present assessing the needs for a surgical audit, tools and techniques for a successful audit and determining the appropriate scope as well as calculating the potential lost revenue. Part II of the presentation will start with the accumulation of data from Part I, the statistical annualization of lost revenue, areas that need additional review as well as how to evaluate the potential for third party audits and the possibility of fraud and/or abuse allegations. The compliance effort for your surgical practice starts with YOU! Evaluate your practice with your own in-house practice audit.	Marsha S. Diamond, CPC®, CPC-H®, CCS
Ob-Gyn	Dec 1st, 2011. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Ob-gyn Coding 101: Bolster Your Confidence	Know What You’re Doing Whether you’re a beginning or seasoned coder, reinforcing your ob-gyn coding know-how is a firm step to optimal reimbursement. In this educational pre-conference, you’ll get an overview of the most commonly reported ob-gyn procedures and learn vital details about CPT/ICD-9 codes. Our experts will reveal ways to ethically code to your ob-gyn practice’s full potential. You can’t afford to miss this session!	Jan Rasmussen, CPC®, ACS-OB, ACS-GI and Peggy Stilley, CPC®, CPMA®, CPC-I®, COBGC®
Orthopedic	Dec 1st, 2011. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Effective Orthopedic Coding for the Office and Surgery to Maximize Reimbursement	Efficient office and surgery coding continue to have an impact on the reimbursement for orthopedic surgeons. This session will look at curent trends, discuss common coding scenerios and update changes for the coming year. Bring your coding questions so that we can review them. Presente	Lynn Anderanin, CPC®, CPC®-I, COSC™
Otolaryngology	Dec 1st, 2011. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Advanced Surgical Coding Workshop	This workshop looks at actual operative notes from Otolaryngology practices. Two Otolaryngologists along with a Otolaryngology Certified Coder will work with the attendees to disect each operative note and code them. The operative notes will be selected from complex surgical cases	Richard Waguespack,MD, Charles Koopmann, MD, Barbara Cobuzzi, MBA, CPC®, CENTC™, CPC-H®, CPC-P®, CPC®-I, CHCC
Pain Management	Dec 1st, 2011. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Anatomy of Interventional Pain Management	Spine Procedures. Correct translation of Pain Management procedure notes into CPT codes can in some cases mean the diference between reimbursement and denial. Remove the language barrier between your Pain Management providers and the coding and billing staff with an understanding of the anatomy terms frequently used by your Pain Management providers in muscles, nerves, disks and vertebrae. Review of spinal anatomy and corresponding interventional Pain Management Procedures: 1) See the landmarks that will point you in the right direction for the correct ICD 9 and CPT codes, 2) Review the differences in terms such as interlaminar and transforaminal, 3) Discover where the ligamentum flavum is and why is it part of many Pain Management spinal procedures, 4) Find out the differences of the term “level” in many of the code descriptions that your Pain Management providers perform, and 5) Learn how to go through your Pain Management provider’s procedure documentation to ensure that you are capturing all the services that can be compliantly billed.	Marvel J Hammer, RN, CPC®, CCS-P, PCS, ACS-PM, CHCO
Pediatrics	Dec 1st, 2011. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Pediatric Coding But Was Afraid to Ask!	A complete overview of codes specifically for Pediatrics such as levels of care, prolonged care, well care, vaccine administration coding, procedures, hospital services, Newborn care as well as proper coding of ICD-9 codes.	Donelle Holle, R.N.
Urology	Dec 1st, 2011. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Non-Surgical Urology Coding in the Hospital and Office	In these times with the economy and changing payer guidelines cutting into your reimbursement, your practice is likely looking beyond surgerical procedures to bring in money. Make sure you know how to get the most $$ out of both hospital- and office-based services your urologist performs, while still staying compliant. Learn the ins and outs of E/M coding and modifiers and review the top documentation errors to survive payer audits. Bring home checklists to assess your compliance for shared visits and incident-to billing and templates to document physician education	Elin Baklid-Kunz, MBA, CPC®, CCS®