2012 Rural Health Clinic Coding & Reimbursement Update Webinar Series

How do you keep up with rules, regulations and processes governing health care and medical coding? BKD can help. BKD National Health Care Group is presenting a three-part webinar series that will offer insights on annual code changes, Medicare physician fee schedule payment and billing guideline changes, rural health clinic updates and other Medicare changes in 2012.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of these courses, participants will be able to:

  • Review new and revised CPT and ICD-9-CM Codes
  • Discuss rural health billing, coding and reimbursement issues
  • Provide updates on RAC, Medicaid audits and ICD-10 implementation
  • Review Medicare fee schedule updates
  • Review OPPS final rule updates on 72-hour rule and supervision
  • Introduce new Medicare Preventative Benefits

These events are eligible for up to five continuing education units (CEUs) from American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) and the American Health Information Medical Association (AHIMA).*

Audience

  • CPCs or CCS-Ps
  • Rural health clinic office managers
  • Rural health coding and billing staff
  • Health Information Management for critical access hospitals who own rural health clinics

Note:  These webinars will only cover changes relating to rural health clinics and will not cover hospital coding changes.

Cost

You will need to register for each webinar individually. If you watch the webinar as a group, please fill out a group attendance form and return it to training@bkd.com within 24 hours of attending. You will need to indicate whether each attendee should be invoiced separately or if the invoice should be sent to the group leader.

Each webinar costs $40 per person, and CEU certificates will be sent upon verification of payment and attendance. Invoices and certificates will be sent following the final webinar. For more information about cost and billing, call 316.265.2811 or email .

Course Schedule

2012 CPT/HCPCS/ICD-9-CM Updates

Date: February 15, 2012
Presenter: Marla Dumm, BKD, LLP
Cost: $40 per person
Approved for 1.5 CEUs *

Course Description

This seminar focuses on 2012 CPT/HCPC code changes for rural health clinic (RHC) services, along with 2012 ICD-9-CM updates and the implementation schedule for ICD-10-CM.

2012 CMS Final Rule & Reimbursement Updates

Date: February 29, 2012
Time: 10 a.m. –12 p.m. Central Time
Presenter: Marla Dumm, BKD, LLP
Cost: $40 per person
Approved for 2.0 CEUs *

Course Description

The focus of this second webinar is 2012 Medicare and governmental updates for RHCs, including the impact of health care reform, Medicare enrollment validation updates, an update on CMS preventive benefits and more.

ICD-10-CM Implementation

Date: March 7, 2012
Time: 10 –11:30 a.m. Central Time
Presenter: Marla Dumm, BKD, LLP
Cost: $40 per person
Approved for 1.5 CEUs *

Course Description

The final webinar in the series focuses on ICD-10-CM implementation, including an overview of guidelines, the effect on practice operations and examples of documentation improvements.

* This three-part webinar series has the prior approval of AAPC and AHIMA for up to 5.0 continuing education hours. Granting of prior approval in no way constitutes endorsement by AAPC of the program content or the program sponsor. This statement of approval will expire on January 31, 2013.

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Eddie Marmouget

National Industry Partner

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