Physician Courses

Whether a frontline coder, biller or a supervisor, DecisionHealth has a variety of online courses available to ensure you are coding and billing correctly and keeping your practice in the black.  View the full course catalog

Evaluation and Management

• E/M Coding for Clinical Professionals Course Library

  Competency Level: Beginner to Intermediate Prerequisistes: None Required Resources: 2010 AMA CPT® Professional Lessons: 7 Pre-Approved for Continuing Education Credits: BMSC – 7 ACS, SCP or CCP-P CEUs, 7 AAPC CEUs Price: $199 per person Coders, Billers, Claims Adjudicators, Practice Managers and Medical Office staff will all benefit from the extensive coding course library by Peter R. Jensen, MD, CPC, expert physician certified professional coder and physician reimbursement consultant. This course library contains seven courses, which are designed to help you understand E/M coding issues, ensure compliance, save time and optimize reimbursement. Assessments are administered at the end of each course. Course Details | Buy Now

• E/M Coding for Academic Facility Clinical Professionals Course Library

  Competency Level: Beginner to Intermediate Prerequisistes: None Required Resources: 2010 AMA CPT® Professional Lessons: 7 Pre-Approved for Continuing Education Credits: BMSC – 7 ACS, SCP or CCP-P CEUs, 7 AAPC CEUs Price: $199 per person Physicians, Residents, Practice Managers and Medical Office staff will all benefit from the extensive coding course library by Peter R. Jensen, MD, CPC, expert physician, certified professional coder and physician reimbursement consultant. This course library contains seven courses, which are designed to help you understand E/M coding issues, ensure compliance, save time and optimize reimbursement. Assessments are administered at the end of each course. Course Details | Buy Now

General Surgery

• Eliminate Confusion When Coding Fractures

  Competency Level: Intermediate Prerequisites: None Required Resources: 2009 AMA CPT® Professional Lessons: 6 Pre-approved for Continuing Education Credits: BMSC - 2 ACS, SCP or CCP-P CEUs, AAPC - 1 CEUs Price: $199 per person This course is designed to give you an understanding of when services rendered can be reported separately from the global fracture care code; when an E/M service can be billed separately from the fracture procedure; and which casting supplies are reimbursable. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to code simple to complex fracture cases quickly and accurately so that they can be billed appropriately for services rendered. Course Details | Buy Now

ObGyn

• Accurate Reporting of Laparoscopic Hysterectomies

  Competency Level: All Prerequisistes: None Required Resources: 2009 ICD-9 Physician Professional, 2009 AMA CPT® Professional Lessons: 6 Pre-Approved for Continuing Education Credits: BMSC - 2 ACS, SCP or CCP-P CEUs, AAPC - .5 CEUs Price: $199 per person This course is designed to provide decision-making logic for getting to the correct laparoscopic hysterectomy code (among the 13 choices a coder has) based on size of uterus, and for dealing with a wide range of other procedures that can occur during a hysterectomy surgery (ex. fibroid removal). Course Details | Buy Now

• Accurate Reporting of Vaginal Hysterectomies

  Competency Level: All Prerequisites: None Required Resources: 2009 ICD-9 Physician Professional, 2009 AMA CPT® Professional Lessons: 6 Pre-approved for Continuing Education Credits: BMSC - 2 ACS, SCP or CCP-P CEUs, AAPC - .5 CEUs Price: $199 per person This course is designed to provide decision-making logic for getting to the correct vaginal hysterectomy code. Deep knowledge of anatomy is needed to accurately dissect operative notes and assign the correct code among the 13 choices based on size of uterus, and for dealing with a wide range of other procedures that can occur during a hysterectomy surgery (ex. hernia repair and fibroid removal). Course Details | Buy Now

• Accurate Reporting of Abdominal Hysterectomies

  Competency Level: All Prerequisites: None Required Resources: 2009 ICD-9 Physician Professional, 2009 AMA CPT® Professional Lessons: 7 Pre-approved for Continuing Education Credits: BMSC - 2 ACS, SCP or CCP-P CEUs, AAPC - .5 CEUs Price: $199 per person This course is designed to provide decision-making logic for getting to the correct abdominal hysterectomy code. The abdominal hysterectomy is the hardest of all hysterectomies to code. It not only has 14 code choices based on several criteria, but also ties to cancer diagnoses and codes. Course Details | Buy Now

• Avoid Missteps in Global OB Billing

  Competency Level: Intermediate Prerequisites: None Required Resources: 2009 AMA CPT® Professional Lessons: 6 Pre-approved for Continuing Education Credits: BMSC - 2 ACS, SCP or CCP-P CEUs, AAPC - 1 CEUs Price: $199 per person This course teaches the intricacies of the global OB package and how to prevent missed revenue opportunities. Learn which services can be billed separately from the global package, how private payers and Medicare differ. Gain an understanding of the CPT® rules. The main CPT® codes used in this course: 59400, 59510, 59610 and 59618. Course Details | Buy Now

• Validate ICD-9 Code Selection on Your OB Claims

  Competency Level: Intermediate Prerequisites: None Required Resources: 2009 ICD-9-CM Professional for Physicians, Vol. 1 & 2 Lessons: 6 Pre-approved for Continuing Education Credits: BMSC - 2 ACS, SCP or CCP-P CEUs, AAPC - 1 CEUs Price: $199 per person Every procedure done in the ObGyn practice must be medically justified to be paid – an ICD-9 code provides that proof. Failure to list the correct diagnosis code will cause a denial. This course will explain how to diagnose a patient accurately in order to establish the medical necessity for the obstetric procedure performed. Ensure full reimbursement by establishing medical necessity, and avoid improper diagnosis coding, particularly of V codes and those in the 630-679 categories. Course Details | Buy Now

Orthopedic

• Prevent Denials in Your Injection Coding

  Competency Level: Intermediate Prerequisites: None Required Resources: 2009 AMA CPT® Professional, 2009 DH HCPCS Level II Professional Lessons: 8 Pre-approved for Continuing Education Credits: BMSC - 2.5 ACS, SCP or CCP-P CEUs, AAPC - 1.5 CEUs Price: $199 per person Approximately $96 million in improper facet joint injection payments have already been identified by the OIG, and how they are looking for more. This course teaches the critical items needed to code accurately for injections to reduce your risk of audit and overpayment demands. Even though there are different types of injections – trigger joint, joint/bursa, spinal, etc. – the requirements for coding and billing are similar. This course will teach you each step based on the exact location and depth of injection for flawless code selection, and how to report the accurate amount of injectable medications for full, due payment. Course Details | Buy Now

• Eliminate Confusion When Coding Fractures

  Competency Level: Intermediate Prerequisites: None Required Resources: 2009 AMA CPT® Professional Lessons: 6 Pre-approved for Continuing Education Credits: BMSC - 2 ACS, SCP or CCP-P CEUs, AAPC - 1 CEUs Price: $199 per person This course is designed to give you an understanding of when services rendered can be reported separately from the global fracture care code; when an E/M service can be billed separately from the fracture procedure; and which casting supplies are reimbursable. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to code simple to complex fracture cases quickly and accurately so that they can be billed appropriately for services rendered. Course Details | Buy Now

Primary Care

• Eliminate Confusion When Coding Fractures

  Competency Level: Intermediate Prerequisites: None Required Resources: 2009 AMA CPT® Professional Lessons: 6 Pre-approved for Continuing Education Credits: BMSC - 2 ACS, SCP or CCP-P CEUs, AAPC - 1 CEUs Price: $199 per person This course is designed to give you an understanding of when services rendered can be reported separately from the global fracture care code; when an E/M service can be billed separately from the fracture procedure; and which casting supplies are reimbursable. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to code simple to complex fracture cases quickly and accurately so that they can be billed appropriately for services rendered. Course Details | Buy Now

Procedural Coding Fundamentals

• Unlocking Payment for Distinct Procedures: Modifier 59

  Competency Level: All Prerequisites: None Required Resources: 2009 ICD-9 Physician Professional, 2009 AMA CPT® Professional Lessons: 11 Pre-approved for Continuing Education Credits: BMSC - 2 ACS, SCP or CCP-P CEUs, AAPC - .5 CEUs Price: $199 per person This course is designed to provide the participant with the ability to understand the intricacies of reporting Modifier 59 and determine in which instances the use of this modifier is appropriate. Including: How to use 59 when two procedures are performed at the same time/session? How to use modifier 59 when you have two procedure/diagnostic codes? How to use modifier 59 when there are alternative modifiers? Course Details | Buy Now

• Understanding the CPT® & Medicare Global Packages

  Competency Level: All Prerequisites: None Required Resources: 2009 ICD-9 Physician Professional, 2009 AMA CPT® Professional Lessons: 14 Pre-approved for Continuing Education Credits: BMSC - 5 ACS, SCP or CCP-P CEUs, AAPC - .5 CEUs Price: $299 per person This course is designed to provide similarities and differences between the CPT Global Package and Medicare Global Package, how and when and which modifiers to use with preoperative and postoperative procedures and be able to determine when a global package code encompasses services rendered and when another code may be appropriate. Course Details | Buy Now

• Prevent Denials in Your Injection Coding

  Competency Level: Intermediate Prerequisites: None Required Resources: 2009 AMA CPT® Professional, 2009 DH HCPCS Level II Professional Lessons: 8 Pre-approved for Continuing Education Credits: BMSC - 2.5 ACS, SCP or CCP-P CEUs, AAPC - 1.5 CEUs Price: $199 per person Approximately $96 million in improper facet joint injection payments have already been identified by the OIG, and how they are looking for more. This course teaches the critical items needed to code accurately for injections to reduce your risk of audit and overpayment demands. Even though there are different types of injections – trigger joint, joint/bursa, spinal, etc. – the requirements for coding and billing are similar. This course will teach you each step based on the exact location and depth of injection for flawless code selection, and how to report the accurate amount of injectable medications for full, due payment. Course Details | Buy Now

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