Early Registration

All About CPT Coding For Subspecialties

This workshop focuses on correct CPT coding, proper medical report documentation, and Medicare compliance for pathology subspecialty cases. The subspecialties of interest are neuropathology, hematopathology (bone marrow cases), renal pathology, dermatopathology, and clinical pathology. After attending this workshop you’ll be able to instruct your pathologists regarding all chargeable services normally encountered with these cases, proper and complete medical reporting to assure accurate billable service identification and subsequent audit support, and compliant CPT reporting for all eligible services per case.

Presenter: Dennis Padget, MBA, CPA, FHFMA

Back to Basics: Everything You Wanted to Know About Coding But Were Afraid to Ask

How to use the CPT book to figure out the anatmoy sessions? How do you mark your CPT book to preventive mistakes? Tricks about being a successful coder that you might not know. CCI Edits, Medicare Pitcalls, Preventive vs. Problem E/Ms, Fee Schedules, RVUs, who is regulating me? who are the auditors? What are the FBUs?

Presenter: Leslie Johnson, CPC

Expanding Your Practice: Leading Advice For Winning Results

how much are you making on each procedure?, add some info about STARK, adding physicians, adding new offices, adding specialties, adding services, adding non insurance procedures, etc., Managing growth.

Presenter: Jerrie K. Weith, FHFMA

Registration, Continental Breakfast & Exhibits

Can’t Miss: 2009 CPT Coding & Regulatory Update

Make sure you’re ready on Jan. 1 to start using new CPT codes. Look for a myeloperoxidase test for heart attack, oncoprotein test for liver cancer, specific coagulation analytes, transcutaneous lab procedures and more. Watch out for NCD updates and other regulatory changes that will affect your bottom line.

Presenter: Joan Logue, BS, MT, ASCP

Place Of Service And Dates Of Service

Where and when did you perform a lab test or anatomic pathology service? The answers may not be as obvious as you think, and getting them wrong can mean not getting paid for your work. Follow our expert’s advice about the latest billing rules for specimens with a different draw and test date, archived specimens, and send-out tests.

Presenter: Joan Logue, BS, MT, ASCP

Billing For IHC And Flow Cytometry Testing: Insider Tips To Make Sure You Get PAID

Make the most of adjunct services for cancer cases. Capture every step of flow-cytometry immunophenotyping to make sure you don’t leave money on the table. Learn top immunohistochemistry (IHC) coding tips including how to maneuver compound stains.

Presenter: Melissa Sinclair, CPC

Get It Right The First Time: Medicare & Non-Medicare Pap Test CPT

Zero in on Pap procedure coding with our arsenal of expert tips. Make sure you distinguish diagnostic and screening Pap tests — and don’t forget the HCPCS Level II codes for Medicare if you want to get paid. Learn how lab method affects your coding and when you can charge for additional tests for HPV.

Presenter: Diana W. Voorhees, M.A., CLS, MT, SH, CLCP

Refreshment Break

Powerful Expert Advice For ICD-9-CM Reporting & Compliance

With over 125 new lab-specific diagnosis codes in ICD-9 2009, you’ll have to stay up to date if you want to show medical necessity for your tests. Learn about important changes for coding carcinoid tumors, leukemia, Pap smears, and much, much more.

Presenter: Melissa Sinclair, CPC

Continental Breakfast & Exhibits

Maximize Your Revenue For Clinical Lab Test Billing & Collections

This session describes the background, principles, legality, and generally accepted policies and practices for billing and collecting professional fees for routine clinical lab tests for hospital inpatients and outpatients. Included are discussion of the hospital contract terms that need to be in place, the payers and insurers that can and can’t be billed such fees, and the sources of information to use to set the initial professional fee per test. After attending this session you’ll be able to describe the steps that should be taken to determine whether professional component of clinical lab test billing is viable for your practice, the fundamental billing and collection policies and practices that need to be implemented, the methods to use to notify patients of their possible liability, and the contractual arrangements needed with your hospital and the main private insurers with which you deal.

Presenter: Dennis Padget, MBA, CPA, FHFMA

Surefire Coding Tactics For NCDs/LCDs

Don’t overlook CMS’s National Coverage Determinations (NCDs) if you want to get paid for hundreds of lab tests. You’ll have to follow these national rules, as well as many local rules (LCDs) to show medical necessity for the tests you perform. Make sure you know the coverage rules so you can educate your clients and edit your own claims.

Presenter: Diana W. Voorhees, M.A., CLS, MT, SH, CLCP

Avoid The Molecular Coding Maze With These Easy-To-Follow Expert Steps

Get every penny in the door for molecular diagnostics and array-based molecular diagnostics testing that your lab performs. Don’t miss out on pay for steps like nucleic acid extraction or gene amplification. In this session, you’ll also learn about genetic modifiers, when not to use the molecular diagnostics codes, and much more.

Presenter: Diana W. Voorhees, M.A., CLS, MT, SH, CLCP