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2010 Physician Fee Schedule: How Will the Changes Affect You?
Audio Conference Recording Price: 199.00 (U.S. Dollars) -
SUMMARY
Medicare's 2010 Physician Fee Schedule is final and goes into effect January 1. Understanding the rule changes and how they affect you is vital to Fee Schedule compliance. Join us for a 60-minute audio conference where you and your coding and reimbursement staff will discover:
- How the final rule will affect your bottom line
- Imaging services - changes to equipment usage assumptions and accreditation
- New PQRI measures and changes to the e-prescribing incentive program
- Consultation codes - What's in store for 2010
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
After this 60-minute audio conference you will have a clear understanding of what the 2010 Physician Fee Schedule changes are and how they will impact your billing, coding and reimbursement for 2010.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Payment Rate Changes - How They Affect the Bottom Line
- Misvalued services: Procedure payment reduction or bundling
- How RVU changes affect physician payments
- Physician Practice Information Survey - how it affects practice fees
- What is Medicare doing to revise malpractice premium costs
- PQRI, e-Prescribing and "Welcome to Medicare Exam" (IPPE)
- What are the new PQRI measures and measures groups
- Keys to achieving the incentive for PQRI and e-Prescribing
- New payment rate for IPPE - how it affects Medicare participants
- Tying Up the Loose Ends - What Else is in the 2010 MPFS
- What's changed for imaging services and equipment utilization rates
- New cardiac and pulmonary rehab programs - What are they
- How to use the new chronic kidney disease education program
- The latest info on what CMS did with consultation codes
- Live Question and Answer Session - Have your specific real-world 2010 Physician Fee Schedule questions addressed!
- Payment Rate Changes - How They Affect the Bottom Line
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SPEAKER
Caral Edelberg, CPC, CCS-P, CHC President, Edelberg Compliance Associates Baton Rouge, Louisiana President Emeritus, Medical Management Resources of TeamHealth
- 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 and hospital 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) and the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC). She is also certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC) through the Healthcare Compliance Association (HCCA) and an active member of the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS).
- She is a three-term member of the AAPC national advisory board and is currently the President-Elect 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. Audio recordings will be received approximately three weeks after the live conference.
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