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Emergency Medicine Coding Changes – What You Need to Know for 2011
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SUMMARY
Make sure you're ready for the Emergency Medicine coding changes that are in store for you in 2011. Join us to get up to speed on the latest changes to CPTs, ICD-9s, and the physician fee schedule. In this 60-minute webinar, you and your colleagues will discover:
- New, revised and deleted codes for Emergency Medicine in 2011
- What are the Physician Fee Schedule RVU changes
- How these changes affect your bottom line
- Methods for ensuring proper reimbursement from payors
- Tips, tricks, & effective strategies to prepare for 2011
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
Following this 60-minute webinar you and your staff will be up-to-date on the latest and most complicated coding changes to Emergency Medicine, ensuring you are properly reimbursed moving forward in 2011.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- CPT Code Changes for 2011: What You Need to Know
- Which CPT code changes affect Emergency Medicine how & when to use them
- CPT guidelines - keys to proper documentation and code selection
- Modifier changes - how to use them and ensure reimbursement
- Physician Fee Schedule Changes: Calculating the Payment You Deserve
- Payment rate changes - how they affect the bottom line
- Billing techniques to help maximize reimbursement
- RVU Changes to the Physician Fee Schedule
- Tying Up the Loose Ends: 2011 Changes that Affect Emergency Medicine
- What are the new, revised & invalid ICD-9 codes effective now
- V codes, E/M, & more - Don't get caught off guard!
- Critical issues with claim denials - avoid getting denied
- ICD-10 is coming. What you need to do to prepare.
- Question & Answer Session - Have Your Emergency Medicine Coding Questions Answered!
- CPT Code Changes for 2011: What You Need to Know
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SPEAKER
Caral Edelberg, CPC, CPMA, CAC, CCS-P, CHC, is president of Edelberg Compliance Associates in Baton Rouge, Louisiana consults in the specialties of emergency medicine (professional and facility), hospital/critical care medicine (hospitalist), EMS/ambulance and urgent care. Caral has certifications in coding, auditing and compliance.
- Caral currently develops training, auditing and monitoring tools while providing compliance audits used to identify coding and billing problems for emergency and hospitalist medicine.
- She is an active member of many professional organizations and has served on the National Advisory Board for the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC); is currently President of the Baton Rouge chapter of the AAPC and long-term member of the Coding and Nomenclature Advisory Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
- Caral is a frequent author and speaker on healthcare management topics including outpatient facility coding and billing, hospitalist medicine, medical record documentation policies, healthcare compliance, effective communication within healthcare systems, specialized coding compliance training for physicians and residents, COBRA/EMTALA and CPT/ICD-9 coding and billing.
- She co-authored the Emergency Medicine Study Guide and Emergency Medicine Specialty Examination for the Advanced Board of Medical Coding (ABMC); authored the Emergency Medicine Study Guide and Emergency Medicine Competency Examination published for Ingenix/AAPC; and co-authored the current Emergency Medicine Study Guide and Competency Examination for the AAPC.
- Caral is the past consulting editor and currently serves on the editorial advisory committee of ED (Emergency Department) Coding Alert. She serves on the editorial advisory boards of ED Management (for whom she publishes a quarterly ED coding column), OPPS Insider, and APC Advisor.
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AAPC CREDITS
This program has prior approval by the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) for 1 continuing education hour. Granting of prior approval in no way constitutes endorsement by AAPC of the program content or the program sponsor. Additional information on obtaining your CEU will be included with your purchase.
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PROGRAM MATERIALS
The speaker's PowerPoint presentation slides are included with your audio recording purchase. All materials are accessible through the Internet and can be downloaded as a PDF file.
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PRICING
$199.00 for audio conference recording (CD or DVD) and program materials.
This is an outstanding program and therefore we offer purchasers a Money Back Guarantee. We are so confident that you will find the conference valuable that we offer a 100% money back guarantee from now until 30 days after the audio recording is shipped, making this a risk-free investment. If you should have any concerns, comments, or refund requests with this conference, please contact our customer service representatives at 800-964-6033. Audio recordings will be received approximately three weeks after the live conference.
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