Series Presenter:

Kim Garner Huey, CPC, CCS-P, CHCC, is an independent coding and reimbursement consultant in Auburn, Ala., providing clients training, auditing and oversight of health care coding. Huey is an approved coding instructor for the American Academy of Professional Coders Professional Medical Coding Curriculum, teaching in Birmingham and Montgomery, Ala. For more than 20 years, Huey has worked with providers in virtually all specialties, from cardiology to general surgery to obstetrics/gynecology to oncology to internal medicine, and more.


How the Audio Conferences work:

• Register online link for the session(s) of your choice.
  
• You get a toll-free number to call on the day of the conference. There is no limit to the number of staff from your office who can listen to the seminar via speakerphone!*
  
• You receive dialing instructions and a link with access information to the audio seminar’s working materials via email, so you can follow along during the presentation.
  
• Listen in, follow along with the course materials you’ve printed out. When prompted, dial in to ask the presenter your question(s).* One phone line per registration. Additional connections subject to additional registration fees.
  

Every year your practice delivers thousands of dollars worth of services and never sees payment because of claims errors and a claims filing and payment process that doesn’t work.

Join DecisionHealth and Part B News for a series of specialized 1-hour audio presentations designed to help you eliminate the errors and inefficiencies that stall your reimbursement.  When you file clean, error-free claims the first time, your A/R and stress levels fall while your productivity and your bottom line increase – without having to grow your staff or increase your costs. (See sessions and dates at left.)

Reimbursement pro Kim Garner Huey will tackle the top billing errors on physician practice claims – identified by CMS and your carriers – and deliver solutions you can implement in this unique, five-part audio conference series. You can join us for all five informative audio conferences, or pick and choose based on the solutions you need to fix your toughest billing challenges.

Each one-hour audio conference will focus on areas identified as those that cause physician practices the most problems, with solutions you can use – and a chance to ask questions.

Session 1: Patient and practice identifier
Wednesday, Sept. 5, 1-2 p.m. ET
Many of the top errors that clog your revenue cycle involve getting identifying information – for your practice, your doctors and your patients – correctly onto the claims form. A simple mistake here could delay your payment by a month or, worse, lead you to walk away from a payment your practice deserves.

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Session 2: CPT and ICD-9 coding errors and duplicate claims
Wednesday, Sept. 19, 1-2 p.m. ET
You file so many claims each day that it’s easy for the devil to get lost in all of the details. Efficient claims payment involves being able to spot the little things quickly and fix them – once and for all. }

When your carrier tells you that you billed an “impossible service” – meaning, for example, your ICD-9 code is not related to the CPT code reported or as reported, the service seems medically improbable, it can be a real head scratcher because you know your practice did the work.

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Session 3: Medicare as Secondary Payer
Wednesday, Oct. 3, 1-2 p.m. ET
When your claim stops first at another payer on the way to your Medicare carrier, the rules change a little bit. You’re stuck with competing between the private payer’s claims rules and Medicare’s, a balancing act that often results in write-offs that can add up.

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Session 4: Bundled services and modifiers
Wednesday, Oct. 17, 1-2 p.m. ET
Sometimes a service is included in payment for another service and sometimes it isn’t. Other times you need to use modifiers to alert your carrier that a typically bundled service isn’t bundled this time. But if you use the wrong modifier, or assign a modifier when not appropriate, trouble awaits.

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Session 5: Preventive service eligibility
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 1-2 p.m. ET
Congress gives you more and more chances each year to bill Medicare for the preventive services it hopes will save money down the road. But each preventive benefit added to Medicare comes with an array of confusing billing rules, including patient eligibility periods and determining high risk. With this session you’ll get a free chart spelling out each Medicare-covered service and the eligibility periods.

Sponsors:

Part B News, the nation’s leading independent newsletter and Total Information Service, helps physician practices and hospitals bill for Medicare services, comply with complex Medicare payment rules, produce cleaner claims and reduce denials.

DecisionHealth®, publisher of Part B News, ICD-9/CPT Coding Pro and Coding Answer Book, serves the business and regulatory needs of health care practitioners, providers and their administrative staff nationwide by offering more than 50 independent newsletters, magazines, books, web sites and loose-leaf services that help readers make the best business decisions. www.decisionhealth.com.

To find out about upcoming conferences and for a complete listing of audio CDs, please visit www.decisionhealth.com.

One registration fee lets your entire staff listen in! Save money - no travel expenses!