Devona
Slater, President, Auditing for Compliance & EducationRave reviews have made this workshop the most sought-after and heavily attended pain management coding and billing seminar in the United States. Devona Slater, the nationally recognized expert called as a consultant by hundreds of organizations, has added a practice management session to the program that focuses on practical steps to improve the profit margin of pain practices. Look no further for your pain management practice primer! Even seasoned pain management reimbursement pros will benefit from her insights and lessons.
Pain Management Coding & Billing
101
Pre-Conference Workshop
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Coding Basics & Documentation Review
Hands-on, down-to-earth advice on how to select the right code from the documentation – or lack thereof – for diagnosis, E/M (including HPI, ROS, PFSH, Exam, and Medical Decision-Making), incident-to services, inpatient and outpatient visits (new and established), consults vs. referrals, and more. These are the fundamentals that will make or break your coding down the road. Sort them out with Devona now and you’re set!
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Refreshment & Networking Break
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Comprehensive Coding and Billing Clinic
Get Devona’s expert tips and effective shorthand to code and bill specific pain management procedures. You’ll save yourself time – and improve charge capture – with these pointers for joint injections, trigger points, epidurals, fluoroscopy, transforaminals, nerve blocks (including sympathetic, specific, Splanchnic, and more), IDET, kyphoplasty, pumps and other services.
12:00 pm – 1:15 p.m.
Lunch on your own
1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Codes and Modifiers for Drugs, Supplies & Other Extras
From A codes to J codes, this session covers what you need to know to bill for drugs and other supplies. Thousands of dollars walk right out of your practice’s door if you don’t nail down these HCPCS codes and their reporting conventions. Devona shows you how to report the right dosage in units, how to work with compound drugs, and bill other therapeutic items and supplies correctly for full reimbursement.
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Refreshment & Networking Break
3:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Improve Your Profit Margin… and Career… with Practice Management
Devona takes you a step further and shares with you practical policies and tools used by successful pain practices to assure productive and profitable coding, billing and office administration. By sharing pain practice management tips and strategies, this session catapults careers to new levels.
4:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Open Q&A Session
Sort out any lingering questions from the day’s presentations with Devona.
5:15 p.m.
Workshop Adjourns
Pre-Conference Workshop
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Coding Basics & Documentation Review
Hands-on, down-to-earth advice on how to select the right code from the documentation – or lack thereof – for diagnosis, E/M (including HPI, ROS, PFSH, Exam, and Medical Decision-Making), incident-to services, inpatient and outpatient visits (new and established), consults vs. referrals, and more. These are the fundamentals that will make or break your coding down the road. Sort them out with Devona now and you’re set!
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Refreshment & Networking Break
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Comprehensive Coding and Billing Clinic
Get Devona’s expert tips and effective shorthand to code and bill specific pain management procedures. You’ll save yourself time – and improve charge capture – with these pointers for joint injections, trigger points, epidurals, fluoroscopy, transforaminals, nerve blocks (including sympathetic, specific, Splanchnic, and more), IDET, kyphoplasty, pumps and other services.
12:00 pm – 1:15 p.m.
Lunch on your own
1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Codes and Modifiers for Drugs, Supplies & Other Extras
From A codes to J codes, this session covers what you need to know to bill for drugs and other supplies. Thousands of dollars walk right out of your practice’s door if you don’t nail down these HCPCS codes and their reporting conventions. Devona shows you how to report the right dosage in units, how to work with compound drugs, and bill other therapeutic items and supplies correctly for full reimbursement.
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Refreshment & Networking Break
3:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Improve Your Profit Margin… and Career… with Practice Management
Devona takes you a step further and shares with you practical policies and tools used by successful pain practices to assure productive and profitable coding, billing and office administration. By sharing pain practice management tips and strategies, this session catapults careers to new levels.
4:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Open Q&A Session
Sort out any lingering questions from the day’s presentations with Devona.
5:15 p.m.
Workshop Adjourns