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2012 Physician Fee Schedule: How the Changes Impact Your Bottom Line
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SUMMARY
Medicare's 2012 Physician Fee Schedule is final and goes into effect January 1. Understanding what has changed and how it affects coding, billing and overall reimbursement is crucial to Fee Schedule compliance. Join us for a 60-minute webinar where you and your coding and reimbursement staff will discover:
- How the changes to the final rule affect reimbursement
- Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) - What's the conversion factor for 2012?
- Misvalued codes and CMS' new program to review them going forward
- RVU changes to physician expenses - how they affect the bottom line
- CMS updates - PQRS, e-Prescribing, EHRs, 3-day payment window and more
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
After this 60-minute webinar you will have a clear understanding of what the 2012 Physician Fee Schedule changes are and how they will impact your reimbursement and policies.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Payment Rate Changes - How They Affect the Bottom Line
- Misvalued codes: CMS' plan to review and update them
- RVU and code changes - what's the impact on reimbursement
- CMS' 2012 SGR factor: Will Congress need to intervene, again?
- Big Hitting Changes and Updates You Need to Know
- Tele-health update - new addition and process change
- Changes to annual wellness visits - what you need to know
- Clarification of the 3-day payment window policy - in plain English
- Changes and additions to CMS' PQRS-EHR pilot program
- Tying Up the Loose Ends – What Else is in the 2012 PFS
- Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction policy - what's CMS up to now
- Payment issues affecting Part B drugs and biologicals
- Latest update on PE & work code review process
- Live Question and Answer Session - Have your specific real-world 2012 Physician Fee Schedule questions addressed!
- Payment Rate Changes - How They Affect the Bottom Line
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SPEAKER
Caral Edelberg, CPC, CPMA, CCS-P, CHC, CAC President, Edelberg Compliance Associates, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Caral is a widely recognized expert on emergency department (ED) and Hospitalist revenue cycle management, coding and compliance.
- She is currently president of Edelberg Compliance Associates, specializing in emergency, hospitalist, ambulance, urgent care, and wound care medicine coding and compliance in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has personally managed coding, billing and compliance improvement projects in hundreds of facilities across the country.
- Caral has dual coding certifications from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA-CCS-P) and the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC-CPC and CPMA). She is also certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC) through the Healthcare Compliance Association (HCCA) and a Certified Ambulance Coder (CAC).
- She is a three-term member of the AAPC national advisory board and is past President of the Greater Baton Rouge chapter of American Academy of Professional Coders.
- Caral authored two volumes of Procedure Coding for Emergency Medicine published by ACEP, 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; served as author/editor of the Emergency Department Answer Book published by United Communications; and co-authored the current Emergency Medicine Study Guide and Competency Examination for the AAPC.
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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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