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2011 Physician Fee Schedule: Updates and Insights on the Final Rule
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SUMMARY
It's that time of year again. Time to discover what changes Medicare has made to the Physician Fee Schedule and how those changes impact reimbursement. Understanding the rule changes and how they affect you is critical to Fee Schedule compliance. Join us for a 60-minute webinar where you and your coding and reimbursement staff will discover:
- How the final rule will affect your bottom line
- Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) - What's the conversion factor for 2011?
- Keys to calculate payment for your practice - how the system works
- RVU changes to physician expenses & liability insurance
- Big changes for primary care and preventive services
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
After this 60-minute webinar you will have a clear understanding of what the 2011 Physician Fee Schedule changes are and how they will impact your reimbursement and policies for 2011.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Payment Rate Changes - How They Affect the Bottom Line
- Misvalued codes: Matching code values to the services performed
- How RVU changes affect physician payments
- 2011 SGR factor: What it means to physician reimbursement
- Calculating payment for your practice - what you need to know
- Changes to Primary Care & Preventive Services
- What is Primary Care Incentive Payment Program - in plain English
- Medicare's new annual wellness visit - what it does and doesn't include
- Changes to preventive services - who's picking up the tab now?
- Tying Up the Loose Ends - What Else is in the 2011 PFS
- Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction impact on imaging services
- What needs to be disclosed to patients - new Stark changes
- Telehealth: Newly added covered and reimbursable services
- Affordable Care Act - changes that impact practice fees & policies
- Live Question and Answer Session - Have your specific real-world 2011 Physician Fee Schedule questions addressed!
- Payment Rate Changes - How They Affect the Bottom Line
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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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