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Managing Coding and Reimbursement Challenges in Vascular Surgery 2005

September 23, 2005, Atlanta, GA

Program Overview

This program is intended for those who seek to izmprove and expand their knowledge of accurate coding and reimbursement for vascular surgery. The program will cover important topics such as 2005 coding and reimbursement rule updates, interventional procedures, the global surgical package definition, operative note dictations, component coding, bypass surgery, vascular (CCI)edits and evaulation and management (E&M) coding. 

7:30 am	Registration
8:00 am	Introduction
8:05 am	Resources CPT Changes 2005 CPT 2004 Review Central Venous Access Reference Tables ICD-9-CM 2005 CMS General Guidelines Cardiovascular System Medicare's Correct Coding Initiative Reimbursement Tools and References Other Frequently Used Modifiers Coding and Reimbursement Basics Medicare 2005 Update; What's in Store for 2006 CMS Audit Priorities 2005 and Beyond Incident-to-Billing Global Surgical Package Definition Operative Note Dictation
8:30 am	Modifiers: Key to Successful Reimbursement
9:00 am - 9:15 am	Break
10:00 am -12:15 pm	Vascular Coding Endovascular Coding Guidelines Concepts of component coding: the triad of catheterization, intervention and S & I coding. Vascular Family rules. 2005 CCI edits and their impact on component coding Peripheral Angioplasty and Stenting Applying component coding to peripheral interventions The "rule of intent" Thrombolysis Endovascular AAA
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	Lunch: Billing and Coding Issues in the Non-Invasive Vascular Laboratory
1:15 pm	Vascular Coding (Continued) Wound Care Carotid Stenting Inferior Vena Cava Interventions Venous Interventions Lower Extremity Bypass Upper Extremity Bypass Hemodialysis Related Interventions
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Highlights of Evaluation and Management (E&M) Coding Auditing your E&M utilization...are you an outlier? Are you an audit target? Choosing an accurate category of service to optimize reimbursement
5:00 pm	Adjourn

  

Learning Objectives

Upon completing this course, the participants should be able to:

• Discuss the 2005 CPT, ICD-9-CM, and Medicare updates
• Understand the principles of component coding
• Discuss correct coding for key vascular surgery case
• Demonstrate the application of modifiers to CPT codes appropriately for streamlined reimbursement
• Understand how to code for vascular lab services
• Explain the documentation requirements for Evaluation and Management codes
  

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for vascular surgeons and their office staff to include practice managers, nurse practitioners, nurses, surgery schedulers, coders, billing and any other office staff member who seek to improve and expand their knowledge of accurate coding and reimbursement for vascular surgery. Team attendance is encouraged.

CME Credit

The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education (CME) for physicians.

The SVS designates this educational activity for a maximum of 7 category 1 credits toward the AMA Physicians Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he or she actually spent in the educational activity.

AAPC CEU Credit

This program has been approved by the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) for 7.0 continuing education hours. Granting of this approval in no way constitutes endorsement by AAPC of the program content or the program sponsor.

Hotel Information

September 23, 2005
Hyatt Regency Atlanta
265 Peachtree Street, NE
Atlanta, GA 30303
404-577-1234
Room rate: $149 single/double
Reservation deadline: August 29, 2005
Make your reservations online

How to Register:

All participants must pre-register prior to the program date. Space is limited and on-site registration will not be available.

Registration form

PDF File

Word Doc file

By Mail:

Society for Vascular Surgery
38678 Eagle Way
Chicago, IL 60678-1386

By Fax:

312-202-5610, credit card payment only. Faxes without payment will not be processed until payment is received.

Cancellation Policy

Request for refunds/cancellations must be received in writing 2 weeks prior to the program date. No refunds will be given after that date. Refunds will be subject to a $50 cancellation fee.

Confirmations

All confirmations will be e-mailed as soon as your payment is processed. For questions regarding your registration, please contact the SVS Education Coordinator at  312-334-2300 or email education@vascularsociety.org.

Questions

Please contact the Society for Vascular Surgery at 800-258-7188.

Faculty

Robert M. Zwolak, MD, PhD, a vascular surgeon and professor of surgery at Dartmouth Medical School with extensive surgical case coding expertise.  Dr. Zwolak is an active member of the American College of Surgeons Coding and Reimbursement Committee, Chair of the Society for Vascular Surgery Government Relations Committee and an active member of the American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Update Committee (RUC).  In addition to these commitments he maintains a busy clinical practice in open and interventional vascular surgery at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.

Teri Romano, RN, MBA, of Karen Zupko & Associates is an instructor for coding and reimbursement workshops sponsored by several national medical specialty societies. She also provides customized coding and reimbursement courses to physician and hospital groups as well as chart review and surgical operative note review to assist physician groups in their compliance activities. Ms. Romano has worked extensively with surgeons and hospitals in the development of neurovascular, stroke and vascular centers. She recently completed two nationwide studies to develop baseline criteria for neurovascular and vascular center development. Ms. Romano received a bachelor of science degree in nursing from the University of Illinois and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago.