Main
Conference: October 17, 2008
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Breakfast with the Experts
Register for this special Breakfast with the Experts session
with the conference speakers. Attendance is limited to 25
participants to ensure plenty of time to interact with your
colleagues and speakers. This is your opportunity to talk
frankly about the nagging billing, coding and other reimbursement-related
problems your practice faces and get input from some of the
field’s top consultants. Considering their regular hourly
fees, this is a breakfast you don’t want to miss! (Separate
fee required; see register page.)
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Refreshment &
Networking Break
8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
(Choose one)
Concurrent Session C
How to Get Paid for Interventional Pain Injections
Shirley DeHardt, RN, MBA, Owner and CEO, HK Medical Billing,
Practice Advisor to Rockhill Pain Specialist, Leawood, Kansas
Pain management practices cannot afford to leave any legitimate
reimbursement on
the table. That includes payment for more
difficult procedures, such as interventional pain injections,
where knowledge of the coding and billing rules is essential.
Take notes in this session as Shirley DeHardt tells you what
you need to know to get paid, including how to make payers
familiar with the effectiveness of treatment pathways; differing
local medical review policies; the effect of place of service
on reimbursement; and the importance of medical necessity.
Concurrent Session D
Practical Lessons from Recent Legal Cases
Vicki
Myckowiak, Partner,
Myckowiak Associates, Detroit, Michigan
You’ve heard all about the cases brought against physician
practices, including pain practices. After you get through
reading all the legal gobbledygook, did you ever find yourself
wondering just what practical effect, if any, the cases have
on your day-to-day operations? In this session you’ll
find out just how these cases hit home from highly rated speaker
Vicki Myckowiak. Then Vicki will give you hands-on lessons
to help your practice focus on compliance and avoid trouble
in areas such as coding, credentialing, kickbacks, narcotic
prescribing, and investigational procedures. A must-see session
for anyone working in a pain practice.
9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Interventional Pain Techniques in Ambulatory Surgical Centers
Shirley DeHardt
Recent rules on ambulatory surgical centers hold good news and
bad news for pain management practitioners. The good news: You
can do more procedures than ever before in ASCs. The bad news:
You may not want to do them if the pay is not enough. Find out
solutions to the ASC problem from Shirley DeHardt, a pain management
coding authority who knows ASCs and how to bill for pain procedures
in them. Listen as she takes you through the ASC system and
how it works, covered surgical procedures, the impact of Stark
III and other rules, and more… and provides the solutions
you need.
10:45 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Expert Panel Q&A
The floor is yours – Bring your pain management coding,
billing and compliance questions to this session and find out
the solutions our panel of presenters has to offer.
12:00 noon
Conference adjourns
