AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE, CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE
Sponsored by Managed Care for Rehab Providers Made Easy
presented on July 25, 2007
You could be leaving up to 25% of your reimbursement on the table
Does the phrase, “I’m billing but I’m not collecting!” sound familiar? We thought so. It is challenging enough to be a therapist, but you also have to be sure you are documenting and billing correctly to ensure payment for ALL the services you provide. If you don’t have a good solid framework or medical record to start with then you are already fighting against the system. We can help you set up your charts for reimbursement success.
Listen to HCPro and expert speakers Lynn Steffes, PT and Nancy Beckley, MS, MBA for an in-depth 90-minute audioconference regarding proper documentation, effective billing, and increased cash collections for therapy services. Our experts also inform you of the danger zones to avoid and the lessons they have learned. You will be provided with hands-on examples that you can put to work in your facility right away!
If you provide and bill for therapy services, don’t miss this must-hear audioconference.
TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA
- Collect the right information
- Form and format of required elements: referral, verification, and certification
- Create a charting format that supports proper documentation and reimbursement
- Play to the strengths of the therapeutic process
- Communicate properly with your patients
- Structure an adequate pay system for cash collections
- Educate the patient and set expectations for payment
- Change in reimbursement schemes
- Patient liability
- Differing fee schedules
- Create stronger management strategies
- Tips to tune up the required elements and ensure payment
- Danger points
- Defining and applying medical decision making
- Strategize how to bill and document for all the provided services
- Correct coding for appropriate reimbursement
- Linking CPT© and ICD-9 coding to reimbursement
- Identify how much money you are leaving on the table
- Differentiate the expectation of your Medicare contractor and payments under your managed care and other insurance contracts
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Discuss the required elements to proper documentation
- Learn how to communicate with patients and staff on payment expectations
- Identify documentation and reimbursement danger points
- Understand how proper coding and documentation yield positive results
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Rehab managers or directors, owners or CEOs of private practices, or other high-level employees in rehab agencies or comprehensive outpatient rehab facilities (CORF), managed care managers in hospital settings
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Lynn Steffes, PT is president/consultant of Steffes & Associates a rehabilitation consulting service based in Wisconsin. She provides consulting services to rehab providers nationwide. She has enabled providers to achieve optimum success in the delivery of high quality, cost-effective care to their patient/clients by offering assistance with, marketing and program development, negotiating managed care contracts and payer relations, training and staff development in the referral and payer relations process, optimal reimbursement and documentation strategies and lobbying and advocacy for therapy services.
Nancy Beckley, MS, MBA, president of Bloomingdale Consulting Group in Brandon, FL, consults in the area of outpatient rehab. She is the author of Managed Care for Rehab Providers Made Easy: Mastering Contracts and Obtaining Fair Reimbursement published by HCPro. She has worked with rehab therapy clinics and hospitals in the areas of Medicare program development, survey and certification, managed care, and marketing. Additionally, Ms. Beckley has served on Medicare's Professional Technical Expert Panel on Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (CORF), and as a program advisor to Easter Seals' rehab outpatient programs nationally. Ms. Beckley has more than 20 years of inpatient and outpatient rehab experience as a clinician, manager, and administrator, and served a managed care administrator for one of Florida’s largest hospitals.
PROGRAM MATERIALS:
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