Office Hours with Barb Pierce

Your Expert Presenter
Barb Pierce, CCS-P, ACS-EM Join chart audit coding veteran Barb Pierce, CCS-P, ACS-EM, for a no-nonsense, plain-English guide to E/M coding and auditing so that you collect full, correct reimbursement and steer clear of auditors. With her 20+ years as a coder and trainer, plus as author of the Board of Medical Specialty Coding’s Advanced Coding Specialist – Evaluation and Management Auditing (ACS-EM) exam, Barb brings a unique combination of physician office management and chart auditing experience to her programs. Every year, she conducts more than a dozen sold out chart auditing seminars throughout the country. Now’s your chance to experience Barb from the comfort and convenience of your office and ask her questions!
Who Should Attend
This conference benefits a wide variety of health care professionals. Facilities directors Emergency management directors Directors of safety and security Security managers Engineering and plant operations Patient safety officers VPs/directors of quality management, patient care and risk management VPs of operation COOs 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!

Do you know how to get started auditing a note? Breaking it down into the three components of history, exam and MDM can sometimes be challenging. Before you even start to mark the Audit Tool, there are some basics you need to review. Also, are you ever challenged regarding the tough questions? Like ...How often can inpatient consultation codes be used? Do chronic conditions necessarily have to be coded with 99214? When is a condition a sign or symptom, or considered ROS or PFSH? Do you know how to code the “gray” areas of a patient’s history? Let Coding expert Barb Pierce help you answers these difficult coding questions and more during the Office Hours with Barb Pierce audio conference on August 8.

More economical than hiring your own consultant! Tap into the insight of this veteran coding trainer who’s agreed to put aside her many projects, open her office door and focus on tackling your most frustrating coding dilemmas head on. You get to prose the specific questions threatening your coding accuracy and tripping up your physicians. No coding question is out of bounds.

Along with an instant answer to your own question, you’ll expand your general coding knowledge as Barb explains the critical thinking skills and CPT coding guidelines that led her to her answer. Plus, you can benefit from Barb’s answers to your colleagues’ toughest E/M coding questions.

CEUs:

Approved for 1 CEU (ACS-EM)

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