AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE
sponsored by The How-To Manual for Rehab Documentation
presented on February 16, 2006
Accurate coding and billing is vital to the financial health of your rehab center.
That's why it's so important to be in-the-know about what's new and what's significant in 2006. This 90-minute audioconference provides the information you need for a successful new year. During Coding and Billing for Rehab Services: Avoiding the Pitfalls of the 2006 Codes, expert speakers Rick Gawenda, PT, and Ken Mailly, PT, will identify the new, deleted, and revised CPT codes for 2006. They will address the CPT codes that are likely to cause you headaches, and offer strategies for success. The agenda will also deal with group therapy, CCI edits, and the recent OIG audits about the misuse of modifier-59 and poor documentation.
In addition to the valuable information provided in the presentation, you'll also have the opportunity to listen to answers to your coding and billing questions during the 30-minute Q&A.
Maximize and secure your rehab reimbursement with this 90-minute audioconference.
Note: Participants should have a basic knowledge of CPT coding, and reimbursement for therapy services prior to listening to this audioconference.
AGENDA:
- Identify new, deleted, and revised CPT codes for 2006
- Identify problem CPT codes
- Define group therapy in various settings
- Define, identify, and understand CCI edits: their application to all settings
- Understand recent OIG audits concerning the misuse of modifier-59 and poor documentation
TOOLS:
- A listing of problematic CPT codes, and strategies for successful reimbursement of these codes, will be provided, as well as a suggested template for conducting self-audits
- CCI Edits version 12.0
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Participants will be able to:
- Identify new, deleted, and revised CPT codes for 2006
- Define, identify, and understand CCI edits
- Identify problem CPT codes
- Define group therapy in various settings
Purchase a tape or CD of the program and listen when you can. It's a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.
MEET THE SPEAKERS:
Rick Gawenda, PT, is the Director of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Detroit Receiving Hospital and owner of Gawenda Seminars. Mr. Gawenda has worked in all areas of therapy within the hospital setting. He has provided valuable education and consulting to both hospitals and his peers in the area of coding, billing, documentation, reimbursement, and the appeals process for Medicare denied claims.
Ken Mailly, PT, is a principal partner of Mailly & Inglett Consulting, LLC, a practice management consulting firm. Ken's consulting focus is on compliance with professional standards, and state and federal regulations, as well as management strategies. For over ten years, he has focused on issues related to health care policy, reimbursement, regulation and practice management. He has presented at numerous state and national seminars addressing these topics, and has been consulted by private and government payers on physical therapy and rehabilitation coding & reimbursement issues and serves, with partner Barry Inglett, as a member consultant on CPT issues for APTA.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN:
Outpatient staff therapists, practicing PTs, OTs, SLPS, managers, administrators, billers, and coders.
PROGRAM MATERIALS:
Program materials will be provided with PDF links.
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