Demystify Your Upper & Lower Endoscopy Coding: Tips to Get It Right

Your Expert Presenter:
Jo Ann Steigerwald, RHIT, ACS-GI, ACS-OH Jo Ann is a coding veteran with 25+ years of experience as a consultant and trainer in medical coding, billing and documentation. As a consultant with Medical Business Specialists, Baraboo, Wis., Jo Ann provides onsite, custom training and consulting services on coding, documentation, fraud and abuse, compliance and medical records management. She previously worked for both state and regional medical associations developing and providing consulting on reimbursement, collections and records management. Jo Ann serves on the Advisory Board to the Board of Medical Specialty Coding, is technical advisor to the Coder’s Pink Sheets and is a frequent national speaker on a variety of coding/billing topics.
Who Should Attend
This conference benefits a wide variety of health care professionals. Billing and coding staff Physicians Practice administrators Front office staff There is no limit to the number of staff from your office who can participate. One registration fee lets your entire staff listen in via speakerphone! Save money — no travel expenses!

You might think you’ve got lower and upper GI endoscopy coding down straight, but just as in the digestive system, there are twists and turns in reporting these high-dollar procedures that could end up costing your practice big bucks.

Let gastroenterology guru Jo Ann Steigerwald give you the goods on endoscopies and answer all of your questions. In just 90 minutes, you’ll learn the importance of modifiers – such as when to report modifier 59 vs. 51, how ICD-9 coding comes into play, (including Medicare’s latest decision to allow up to eight ICD-9 codes on a claims), as well as how to document and code:

Multiple procedures, whether they are both using the same endoscope or a lower and upper endoscopy at the same session.
New technology, eg., capsule endoscopy and CT colonography.
Upper GI procedures, with esophageal dilation, fine-needle aspiration, ultrasound exam and pH monitoring.
Proctosigmoidoscopy vs. sigmoidoscopy vs. colonoscopy: Hint: You’ll need to know how far the scope advanced.
Incomplete or aborted colonoscopies.
When screening colonoscopies become therapeutic – key to slashing claims denials.
E/Ms with screening and diagnostic colonoscopies.
Cold biopsies vs. polyp removal (hot, snare, cold, and ablation) coding – and how to define and tell the difference.

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One registration fee lets your entire staff listen in! Save money - no travel expenses!