Medicare Eliminates Consult Codes: What it Means for Your Practice!
An On-Demand Audiocast Presentation
For several years the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) have been focusing on the use of consult codes within the Evaluation and Management section of the CPT book. Their concerns were that physicians and surgeons were using consult codes too often and inappropriately. Well they solved that problem … by making the use of all in-hospital and in-office consult codes inactive for 2010. Economedix is pleased to present an hour-long Audiocast titled “Medicare Eliminates Consult Codes: What it Means for Your Practice?” as a way to introduce you to the topic, help you understand the ramifications of this significant change in Medicare reimbursement policy and we’ll even provide an interactive tool to help you calculate the possible financial cost to your practice in 2010. This presentation was originally a live Webcast in December 2009 and updated in January 2010. Following the formal presentation any participant will be able to ask questions via follow up email.
More specifically in this important course you will learn …
• How to asses the financial impact on the practice • How to “cross-walk” the consult codes to hospital and office visit codes • How to maintain consult codes for non-Medicare patients • Meeting referring physician expectations for a consult even when not billing for one • How to maximize the visit code to match the equivalent consult code
Who should attend?
• Physicians & Surgeons – especially those in specialty practices • Practice Managers and Administrators • Practice Supervisors responsible for coding and medical billing • Medical coders, finance and accounting personnel • Representatives of Medical Billing Companies
Webcast Details
• Date: Available anytime as an On-Demand Audiocast • Length: Approximately 1 hour presentation • Materials: Course handouts and an interactive Excel tool to assist in calculations • Registration: Covers your entire practice via Internet to a PC with speakers • Cost: Just $59 per practice – not per person • Faculty: Mr. R. Thomas (Tom) Loughrey, MBA, CCS-P & Chairman of Economedix
Registration
To register online Click on the link below
About Economedix
Economedix is a leading Practice Management Consulting firm that specializes in providing quality and cost-effective educational and training programs to private and academic medical practices, medical societies and a wide variety of health care organizations. Courses cover all vital elements of practice management including: Compliance & Medicare; Governance & Management; Patient Flow & Operations; Financial Management; Human Resource Management; as well as Coding & Reimbursement. |
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