Seminars

DAY 1—May 6, 2010

7:00AM—8:00AM	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00AM—9:00AM	Keynote Address: Kathleen D. Pagana, PhD, RN: Momentum Leadership: How to Increase Momentum by Capitalizing on Hidden Opportunities
9:00AM—10:30AM	General Session: Observation Services and Medical Necessity: A look at the latest regulatory developments affecting inpatient coverage rules, medical neccessity, screening criteria, and physician involvement. Speakers:Deborah Hale, CCS, Kimberly Anderwood Hoy, JD, CPC, Joe Zebrowitz, MD
10:30AM—10:45AM	Break
	RAC Track	Observation Services Track	Physician Advisor Track
10:45AM—12:00PM	Identified Complex Coding Issues: An in-depth look at some of the latest RAC coding issues. Speakers: Shannon McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-I, CCDS, Stacey Levitt, RN, MSN, CPC	UR Committee and Optimizing Condition Code 44: Compliance strategies for preventing and correcting level-of-care errors. Speaker: Deborah Hale, CCS	The Roles and Responsibilities of a Physician Advisor: Understanding the best practices of physician advisor and their role in revenue integrity and compliance. Speaker: Joe Zebrowitz, MD
12:00PM—1:30PM	Networking lunch in exhibit hall
1:30PM—2:45PM	General Session: State of the Union: Government Audit Programs: A discussion of the latest developments with federal auditing programs including RACs, MICs, MACs, ZPICs and CERT. Speakers:Kimberly Anderwood Hoy, JD, CPC, Stacey Levitt, MSN, CPC, Michael Taylor, MD
2:45PM—3:00PM	Break
3:00PM—4:00PM	Managing One-Day Stays: Ensure compliance for appropriate admissions and accurate documentation. Speakers: Kimberly Anderwood Hoy, JD, CPC, Michael Taylor, MD	Strategies to Ensure Medicare Compliance with Case Management and Physician Advisor Intervention: Tips to establish a program that ensures compliance and revenue integrity. Speaker: Joe Zebrowitz, MD	The Physician Advisor Role in Managing Coding Queries: Learn strategies to effectively manage coding queries from our expert speakers, who will share the PA and coding points of view. Speakers: Shannon McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-I, CCDS, James Vance, MD
4:00PM	Adjourn

DAY 2—May 7, 2010

7:00AM—8:00AM	Continental Breakfast
8:00AM—9:00AM	General Session: Best Practices for a Successful RAC Team: Learn the most effective ways to customize how you run your RAC team so that you contribute to the success of your operation moving forward. Speakers: Kimberly Anderwood Hoy, JD, CPC, Joe Zebrowitz, MD
	RAC Track	Observation Services Track	Physician Advisor Track
9:00AM—9:45AM	Tools and Tracking for Appeals: Strategies to manage RAC appeals with effective methods and technology. Speaker: Stacey Levitt, RN, MSN, CPC	Medical Necessity Appeals: A review of the updated Medicare appeals process and the strategies you must use for each level. Speaker: Joe Zebrowitz, MD	The Physician Advisor Role in Appeals: An exploration of strategies and tactics you can use to assist your organization in launching effective appeal efforts. Speaker: Michael Taylor, MD
9:45AM—10:00AM	Break
10:00AM—11:00AM	Hot Topic: The RAC s release new identified issues each week. Our expert speakers will cover the most pressing trends they’ve seen.	Billing and Payment for Observation Services: Common billing challenges for Medicare patients, including drugs and minor procedures. Speaker: Kimberly Anderwood Hoy, JD, CPC	The Physician Advisor Role in Managing Observation and Condition Code 44: Common billing challenges for Medicare patients, including drugs and minor procedures. Speakers: Deborah Hale, CCS, Michael Yanuck, MD
11:00AM—12:00PM	Defending Medical Necessity Denials: Learn key strategies to successfully approach and resolve medical necessity denials. Speaker: Michael Taylor, MD	Tackling Readmissions: A review of Medicare's position, assessing the financial impact, and a recommended review process you can use at your organization. Speakers:Joe Zebrowitz, MD	The Physician Advisor Role in Quality: P4P, POA, HACs, Never Events: A discussion of the regulatory environment and how physician advisors play a part in these initiatives. Speakers: Kimberly Anderwood Hoy, JD, CPC, Michael Yanuck, MD
12:00PM	Adjourn

Agenda subject to change.

RAC Track: Learn about contractor focus areas under the permanent program, plus strategies to stay on top of record requests and appeals.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Handle identified complex coding issues
• Manage one-day and short stays

Observation Services Track: Learn about the major regulatory issues surrounding admission criteria.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Formulate strategies to enhance case management and physician advisor partnerships
• Define billing and payment rules for observation services under Medicare

Physician Advisor Track: Highly customized sessions for physician advisors to learn key aspects of Medicare compliance and revenue integrity.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Recognize the best strategies to defend medical necessity denials
• Support initiatives to manage observation services and condition code 44

Deborah K Hale CCS

Ms. Hale is president of Administrative Consultant Service, LLC (ACS), has 25 years of experience in healthcare management, including administration, health information management, clinical documentation improvement, resource outcome management, and utilization review. She is a member of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA). Hale is a featured speaker for numerous case management conferences.

Kimberly A Hoy JD, CPC

Ms. Hoy serves as the lead instructor for HCPro's Medicare Boot Camp®-Hospital Version. She has served as a compliance officer and in-house legal counsel for hospitals. She has also developed and implemented corporate wide compliance programs for two hospitals. As a hospital compliance officer, she regularly provided research and guidance on coding, billing, and reimbursement issues for a wide range of hospital services. She has particular expertise in charge description master operation, development,and maintenance. She has experience conducting billing compliance audits and internal investigations. She has served as a speaker at compliance-related conferences in the areas of compliance program effectiveness and physician education.

Stacey Levitt RN, MSN, CPC
Director of Patient Care Management

Ms. Levitt is director of patient care management at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. She has a solid clinical nursing background in both critical care and public health. Her ongoing administrative experience includes over twenty years in healthcare management settings in New York and Pennsylvania. Her areas of expertise includeutilization and denial management, reimbursement analysis, performance improvement, professional staff development, and project management. She is known for her in-depth knowledge of Medicare regulations and her passion for effecting increased efficiency, productivity, mastery of insurance coding rules, and realization of appropriate reimbursement. She is an expert in data management and analysis relating to hospital and physician reimbursement.

Shannon McCall RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC-I
Director of HIM/Coding for HCPro, Inc.

Ms. McCall is director of HIM/coding for HCPro, Inc., serving as the lead instructor for the Certified Coder Boot Camp®-Original Version (covers physician and outpatient hospital coding) and the Certified Coder Boot Camp® - Inpatient Version (covers inpatient hospital facility coding). She also is an instructor for the Interventional Radiology Boot Camp and a member of the ACDIS advisory board.

Kathy D. Pagana, PhD, RN

Kathleen D. Pagana, PhD, RN has been a leader in healthcare for more than 30 years, with experiences including clinical practice, administration, college teaching, business management, writing, and professional speaking. Among the 22 books Dr. Pagana has written, she has co-authored the number one best-selling book on healthcare diagnostic and laboratory testing, Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference, 9th ed., which has sold more than 1 million copies. Her newest book, The Nurse's Etiquette Advantage: How Professional Etiquette Can Advance Your Nursing Career, helps healthcare professionals advance their careers by interacting confidently in clinical, business, and social settings.

Michael Taylor MD

Dr. Taylor is senior medical director of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Executive Health Resources (EHR). He has worked closely with top hospital executives, physicians, and legal experts to institute a process of sophisticated, evidence-based medical necessity review of inpatient claims denied by the RACs. Dr. Taylor co-founded and served as president and managing partner of a comprehensive family medicine center to a rural community in northern Alabama.

James Vance MD, MBA

Dr. Vance is associate medical director at BCE Technology and an independent healthcare consultant with 25 years of clinical practice and 15 years of clinical performance improvement experience. His current focus is on engaging physicians in improving medical record documentation compliance, a critical component in the evolving healthcare reform environment.

Michael Yanuck MD

Dr. Yanuck is president of Michael Yanuck, MD, PA Medical Consulting. He provides consulting services to the medical industry, including hospitals, hospitalist groups, managed care organizations, and medical practice groups. Yanuck has also lectured on many subjects including compliance with Medicare rules covering observation, pay for performance and hospital acquired conditions (present on admission indicators). Additionally, he has served as medical director for a variety of managed care plans, including Medicare. Medicaid, and commercial plans. Yanuck is presently Board Certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Yanuck obtained his medical degree from The Albany Medical College of Union University and did his residency at the Naval Hospital in Jacksonville, FL. Yanuck has active licenses in numerous states.

Joe Zebrowitz MD

Dr. Zebrowitz is executive vice president and senior medical director of EHR in Newtown Square, PA. In this role, he developed EHR's suite of clinical revenue cycle management services-endorsed by the American Hospital Association as "Best in Class." He also works as a physician advisor and medical director at EHR client hospitals, leading clinical denial management and length of stay programs, quality initiatives, documentation and compliance programs, and independent peer review processes.

Speakers subject to change.

Continuing education credits will be available for this program. Please check back soon for complete information.

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