Early Registration

Discover 10 Fresh Revenue Boosting Tips

Vicky Varley O'Neil, CPC, CCS-P

Registration, Continental Breakfast & Exhibits

Make Modifiers "Safely" Work for You

Option #1
Stop Immunizations From Hurting Your Bottom-line

Option #2
It's Only Skin Deep: How to Get Paid for Office Dermatology Procedures

Breathe Easy When Billing for Nebs, Allergies and More
Includes Spirometry & other pulmonary services (aerosiksm teaching MDI's, etc)

Lunch & Exhibits

Easy Strategies for Higher Paying Placements & Removals

When you remove casts, warts, sutures or splinters, you're kissing deserved dollars good-bye if you're stuck in the E/M section. We'll show you how to take advantage of commonly overlooked codes for often performed pediatric procedures.

Take These Steps to Obtain Phone Call & Other Indirect Services Payment

You've finally got time-based phone call codes. This action plan will put you on the payment path for non-face-to-face services including prolonged services, care plan oversight, forms completion and more.

Refreshment Break

Option #1
Asthma, Jaundice and Diabetes: These Tips Will Keep Your ICD-9 Coding on the Straight and Narrow

Take the guesswork out of reporting post birth visits by letting the diagnosis steer your encounter coding. You won't want to miss these hidden ICD-9 coding tips that will get you coding chronic conditions when you should, looking for nonincluded codes and ordering diagnoses like a pro.

Option #2
ICD-9 Coding Mythbuster

Get the facts about the most common ICD-9 coding myths that hurt reimbursement for primary care practices. HINT: Sometimes signs and symptoms ARE the definitive diagnosis that will ethically boost your E/M level. In addition, we'll give you the tips and tricks of the trade you need to support medical necessity for the services your physicians provide.

Option #1
1 E/M or 2? Winning Ways to Cut Problem + Well Payment Losses

Your pediatrician performs an 18-month-old preventive medicine service on a 20 month old. Find out the steps you need to take to code correctly and get paid for outside age range services, international adoption exams and more. Solve real case scenarios that will nail down appealable office visits with well checks and learn the alternatives.

Option #1
Inpatient Coding: How to Avoid the Landmines That Can Explode Your Claims

Your primary care physicians admits a patient, but doesn't round on him until the next morning. What do you do? During this session, you'll get strategies for getting paid for all that pre-admission and admission work and the easy way to pinpoint which E/M service code to use. Find out what to do if the doctor hands over care to a hospitalist or other specialist to ensure you still see the dollars your office deserves.

Cocktail Party

Continental Breakfast & Exhibits

Option #1
EX Files, Coding for Physician Extenders

You'll take full advantage of NPs, MAs, RTs and more after you go home with these ideas for applicable codes. Plus find out supervision requirements and state restrictions that will keep your practice out of payer scrutiny.

Option #2
Documentation Triage — Help Your Docs Determine Where They Need Help … And Why!

You know the old adage, "If it's not documented, it wasn't done." Don't let your practice lose another penny because of under documentation. Even if you feel like you've done all you possibly can to get your physicians on board the documentation bandwagon, let our veteran expert speakers open your eyes to some creative tools and tactics you can apply immediately to help your physicians capture all the work they're doing in their documentation.

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Keep Your 99214 & 99215 Use on the Up and Up

Insurers are downcoding based on diagnosis. Pediatricians are notorious undercoders. These are the facts on documentation, ICD-9 codes, payer specifics and CPT you need to use mid-to-high-level office visit codes without risking underpayments, repayments and fraud.

Option #2
Make Audits Pay! Where to Look for Good News During Your Records Review

Auditing your coding doesn't have to be a headache. You can use it to show where your practice is missing out on reporting certain procedures or boosting that E/M level to a 99214 … and maybe a 99215. We'll show you how to use those CMS auditing sheets to your best advantage and point out the red flags that you should avoid. Plus, shed light on the snags that insurers use to trip you up and bring your level down.

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Capture All Bright Futures Services (I replaced Pay for Performance with this)

Identify which Bright Futures coding opportunities your practice is missing as we walk through this age-by-age preventive medicine and related service checklist. Weigh the pros and cons of purchasing OAE and Suresight equipment.

Option #2
Capitalize on Your Support Staff: Get What You Deserve for Your NPP's Services

Your talented staff is just waiting for you to take advantage of them. Are your nurse practitioners, nutritionist, diabetic educators, respiratory therapists contributing to your practice's bottom line as much as they could? Find out what you can bill and when. Plus, make sure you have incident-to rules down pat - the OIG's targeting them in 2008!

Workshop #1
Coding ADD/ADHD From "Consult" to Maintenance

Stay and join us for this nuts and bolts session that will have you capturing all spectrums of ADD/ADHD care. Explore initial pre-diagnosis encounter options including what to code for nurse/teacher opinion requests and diagnostic tests. Get the nitty-gritty on the pharmaceutical management code and preventive medicine service inclusions. Learn how mental health carve outs can make appeals fruitless and how toolkits can overcome ICD-9 mental health code payment woes.

Workshop #2
Practice Management Session- EMR & Billing Best Practices Revealed

The electronic medical record is more than just the place where you input your CPT and ICD-9 codes to submit claims to insurers. Use this workshop to make sure you're tapping into all the benefits EMRs present, from report and benchmarks to claim and payment tracking without falling into upcoding traps. Plus, you get expert billing and collections tips that can add to your practice's bottom line.