212 More ASC Payment Groups: Prepare Now For Medicare Reimbursement Overhaul

Your Expert Presenter:

	Eric Zimmerman partner, McDermott Will & Emery, Washington, D.C. Eric Zimmerman is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in its Washington, D.C.
office. A member of the firm’s Health department, Eric is a recognized Medicare law and policy authority who helps clients navigate federal legislative and regulatory processes, improve reimbursement and maintain compliance. He counsels and represents hospitals and health systems, physician organizations, ambulatory surgery centers, device and equipment manufacturers and suppliers, medical trade associations and professional societies.

Who Should Attend

This audio conference benefits a wide variety of health care professionals. Billing and Coding Staff Physicians Office Managers Practice Administrators Front Office Staff One registration fee lets your entire staff listen in via speaker-phone! Save money — no travel expenses!

Your ambulatory surgery center will face a new reimbursement system – and operational challenges – in the next two years as Medicare imposes a massive overhaul of ASC payment methods and the list of ASC-allowed

procedures.

Start preparing now for an increase to 221 ambulatory payment classifications (APCs) from the current 9 and as many as 750 new procedures that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) may add to the ASC list. ASC expert Eric Zimmerman, attorney with McDermott Will & Emery in Washington, DC, will lead you through the coming tumultuous changes.

Attend this information-packed audio conference on October 19, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time and discover:

Details of the proposed payment changes for 2007 and 2008, including what percentage of the hospital outpatient payment rate your ASC may get.
How your 2007 payments may be capped at the hospital outpatient payment and what the cap would do to your bottom line. Hint: It looks like you may take a hit on about 275 codes – find out which ones.
What 14 new surgeries will be added to the ASC setting in 2007 and how CMS may add another 750 in 2008 (will they drag down payments for ALL ASC services?).
How these changes will affect multispecialty and single-specialty ASCs.
How soon CMS expects to make the changes and more on its implementation timetable (you’ve got a phase-in to deal with).
How the rule will affect physician relations with ASCs.
What you can do to prepare – for instance, how will you ensure you can hire nurses and pay for supplies?

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