Your Expert Presenter:

Bellinger Moody is senior vice president of compliance, coding and reimbursement for Medac, Inc. in Augusta, Ga. He is a nationally Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA), a nationally Certified Professional Coder (CPC), a nationally Certified Compliance Professional (CCP), an AAPC Approved Professional Medical Coding Curriculum Coding Instructor and a member of the Medical Group Management Association and the Anesthesia Administrator’s Assembly.

Who Should Attend

This conference benefits a wide variety of health care professionals:

  • Physicians
  • Compliance officers
  • Legal counsel
  • Practice administrators
  • Office managers
  • Billing managers
  • Billers
  • Auditors

There is no limit to the number of staff from your office who can tune in to the seminar via speakerphone. A single registration and a speakerphone let your whole staff listen in!
(One dial-in per registration fee.)


How the Audio Conference Works

To find out about upcoming teleconferences and for a complete listing of CDs, please visit DecisionHealth.

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

Buy the CDWhile medically directing concurrent anesthesia procedures, physicians usually can’t be involved in furnishing additional services to other patients. Medicare does make exceptions to this rule, when the anesthesiologist does any of the following six actions:

  • Addresses an emergency of short duration in the immediate area
  • Administers an epidural or caudal anesthetic to ease labor pain
  • Performs periodic, rather than continuous, monitoring of an obstetric patient
  • Receives patients entering the operating suite for the next surgery
  • Checks on or discharges patients from the recovery room
  • Coordinates scheduling matters.

Learn from expert Bellinger Moody how physicians can make the most of their time in a compliant manner while medically directing.  Find out what is included in each of these exceptions and get the answer to these important questions:

  • What is “short duration?"
  • What constitutes an emergency?
  • What does “the immediate area” mean?
  • Are there additional services allowed while medically directing?

Can you perform post-op pain blocks/catheters while medically directing?

Register today and start maximizing your anesthesiologists’ time and billing opportunities.

BONUS: Open Q&A time after the presentation let’s you ask your nagging medical direction questions. Bellinger has had extensive experience auditing and consulting for anesthesia and pain practices across the country. You’ll gain from his insights into anesthesia coding and compliance pitfalls, including documentation problems that affect reimbursement, coding issues and how they vary between states, managed care contract issues that affect reimbursement, unique anesthesia and pain coding techniques that increase reimbursement, and more.

Register now!

CEUs: 

Approved for 1.5 CEUs (ACS and SCP)


This program has the prior approval of the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) for 1.5 continuing education hours. Granting of prior approval in no way constitutes endorsement by AAPC of the program content or the program sponsor.

 

Sponsored by: 
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