Your practice is depending on you, as a Practice Manager, to make sure that your claims are coded compliantly and paid correctly – whether you know how to code or not.
There’s a lot riding on you getting it right, especially considering that the majority of your practice’s income is tied to accurate coding and billing.
Although you don’t need to know the minute details of HOW to code, you do need a solid grasp of how coding works, and how it influences your practice’s income. Also, it is imperative that you have a handle on and how simple errors can increase denials (and leave you without your deserved pay), and leave you exposed to allegations of fraud.
Did you know that Medicare found incorrect coding errors that caused more than $1.5 billion in recouped revenue from medical practices last year? And that’s just one payer. Getting a firm grasp of coding basics is the only way to ensure you are able to ethically get paid for every allowable service your providers perform.
This is where expert, Victoria Moll, CPC, CPMA, COC, CRC, CPRC, AAPC Approved Instructor, Fellow, can help. She will walk you through the basics of coding, including tips on why medical coding is important to you, as a practice manager – just enough detail to make it meaningful and useful, without making your eyes glaze over.
Here are just a few of the plain-English, time-saving tactics this 75-minute online training session will help you resolve:
- Harness medical coding knowledge to boost your practice’s revenue
- Differentiate HCPCS codes from ICD-10-CM codes
- Find out how putting your codes in the right order can lead to higher reimbursement
- Keep auditors off your tail by knowing why you must perform medical coding self-audits
- Avoid global period claim denials with a few simple tips
- Discover how frequently your coders should be updating their systems
- Isolate the key phrases that providers should be documenting to ethically improve pay
- And so much more…
It’s your responsibility to keep revenue coming in and auditors at bay. That’s why this upcoming online training session is a must attend for practice managers, just like you. It will break down the complexities of coding requirements and walk you through what you REALLY have to know.
Sign up for this online training to ensure that you have the knowledge necessary to help your coders and billers file your practice’s claims more accurately and ensure that your practice gets paid more of what it deserves. Don’t miss out on this impactful, expert-led online training — reserve your spot today!
Victoria is a surgical coder for a large physician group in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She has over seven years of experience in billing and coding for hospitalists, obstetrics/gynecology, transplant services, general surgery, hematology/oncology, and plastic and reconstructive surgery.
She previously worked as a coding and health information instructor and now teaches classes to prepare coding students for the CPC exam. Victoria is an active member of the American Academy of Professional Coders, having held office in multiple chapters and mentored several members.
Victoria is a published writer and frequent speaker on the subject of plastic and reconstructive surgery coding. She owns and operates her own coding education website, Contempo Coding.
