AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD
Sponsored by Radiology Administrators’ Compliance & Reimbursement Insider
presented on June 13, 2007
If you leave the management of ABNs solely to your hospital or facility’s front desk staff you may be leaving money on the table.
Whether you work in a hospital radiology department or an independent imaging facility, appropriate use and preparation of an advance beneficiary notification (ABN) not only reduces your compliance risks but also ensures your facility receives all the reimbursement money it deserves.
Ensure ABN compliance and appropriate reimbursement
Listen to this 90-minute audioconference as our expert speakers present strategies and best practices for ABN use, discuss possible changes to Medicare ABN forms, explain how to avoid Office of the Inspector General scrutiny, offer auditing techniques to track reimbursement trends, and much more!
Take, for instance, the following examples of imaging ABN pain points:
- Your hospital bought a brand new, 64-slice CT scanner. Part of your program pitch to purchase such an expensive machine hinged on using it to screen patients for coronary artery disease. Medicare does not consider this screening exam medically necessary and won’t reimburse your facility for it. Could requiring patients to sign an ABN resolve this payment problem?
- Medicare requires medical necessity determinations for MRI of the head and neck. But your referring physicians neglect to file the proper paperwork. That puts your MRI facility at risk for increased provider liability. Should you have all your patients reporting for this procedure fill out an ABN?
ABNs represent an integral part of your radiology department and imaging center’s compliance and reimbursement program. Our 90-minute audioconference offers you practical ways to implement and enforce ABN use, to take that money off the table and put it back in your facility’s wallet where it belongs.
AGENDA
- Appropriate ABN use
- Medical necessity
- Statutory exclusions
- Software applications in ABN completion
- Practical approaches to present patients with ABNs
- Practical applications for ABN use
- Roles and responsibilities for physician ordering
- Registration department tasks
- Billing office/finance functions
- Lost revenues vs. write off revenues
- Sample case studies
- Q & A
At the end of this live audioconference you will be able to:
- Verify appropriate use of ABN forms
- Identify which modifiers should be used with ABNs
- Determine appropriate format for ABN filings
- Recognize penalties for inappropriate ABN use
- Establish staff roles and responsibilities to manage appropriate ABN use
MEET THE SPEAKERS
William L. Malm, ND, RN, is president of Health Revenue Integrity Services in Cleveland, OH. He has more than 20 years of experience in a combination of clinical and financial healthcare, including as a compliance officer, director of revenue integrity, revenue cycle specialist, and chargemaster specialist.
Larry W. Balmer, CCP, is the chief compliance officer and HIPAA privacy and security officer of Radiology Incorporated in Mishawaka, IN. He is a compliance consultant working with a variety of radiology and billing offices, and is an experienced compliance officer.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Billing office, registration, admissions, radiology managers/administrators/directors, compliance officers, emergency department managers in hospitals and freestanding radiology facilities. HIM managers and coding professionals should also attend.
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