Office Hours with Margie Vaught

Your Expert Presenter
Margie Scalley Vaught, CPC, CPC-H, PCE, CCS-P, MCS-P, ACS-EM, ACS-OR Margie has over 22 years of experience in the health care arena. She has worked in many positions from a nurse’s aide to ward clerk and medical transcriptionist to office manager. She has over 15 years experience in orthopedic coding, billing and reimbursement issues, and has contributed many articles to the AAOS Bulletin. Currently, Margie is the Coding Content Specialist for DecisionHealth, where she authors a host of products designed to ensure accurate, efficient, and complete coding and billing among physician office coders, billers and physicians. In addition, Vaught will continue to offer consulting, auditing and on-site education services to physician practices. Margie is also an advisor on orthopedic coding to the Board of Medical Specialty Coding (BMSC) and assisted in the development of its Advanced Orthopedic Coding credentialing exam (ACS-OR). She is a member of BONES and also serves as technical advisor to the Orthopedic Coder’s Pink Sheet.
Who Should Attend
This conference benefits a wide variety of health care professionals. Coding and Billing Staff Practice Administrators Front Office Staff Anyone who wants to learn more about key orthopedic issues and, as a bonus, what is included in the BMSC’s SCP-OR examination. 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!

How often may 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? D you know how to code the “gray” areas of a patient’s history? Let Coding expert Margie Vaught help you answers these difficult coding questions and more during the Office Hours with Margie Vaught audio conference on August 15.

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 Margie explains the critical thinking skills and CPT coding guidelines that led her to her answer. Plus, you can listen in on Margie’s answers to your colleagues’ toughest coding questions.

CEUs:

Approved for 1 CEU (ACS-EM); 1 CEU (SCP-OR)

To find out about upcoming conferences and for a complete listing of audio CDs, please visit www.decisionhealth.com.

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