If you don’t use the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule properly, you’re losing out on dollars you’re due. Not only do you need to have the inside scoop on the 2020 changes impacting you the most, you’ve also got to master the schedule’s complexities to keep your practice compliant. Without both of these, you’ll make massive costly errors.
But it doesn’t have to be this way … Nationally recognized coding experts Tracy Bird, FACMPE, CPC, CPMA, CEMC, CPC-I and Kim Garner Huey, MJ, CHC, CPC, CCS-P, PCS, CPCO, COC, have prepared a 2-part online training series to help you apply the fee schedule’s rules and identify the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule 2020 changes that will most impact your practice. Together these sessions will improve your compliance and maximize your payments.
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PART 1: Physician Fee Schedule: Get More of the Revenue You Deserve
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Medicare par and non-par practices alike are required to use the Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value File (RVF). Not doing so (without regard for specialty) will lead to noncompliance and hefty fines. For example, correctly using the RVF will make it possible for you to:
More accurately estimate Medicare payments and avoid repayments (par providers)
Avoid overcharging Medicare patients and stay off of the LCER report (non-par providers)
Surgical practices: Determine if a surgical assistant can be separately paid
Primary care providers: Maximize payments under the Primary Care Incentive Payment Program (PCIP)
And there is much more….
IMPORTANT: Physician Fee Schedule RVF guidelines are binding for ALL carriers that bill Medicare.
To ensure you are using the Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value File correctly, join coding and billing expert, Tracy Bird, FACMPE, CPC, CPMA, CEMC, CPC-I, during her online training; where you will find the answers you need fast and effortlessly for:
How are Relative Value Units (RVUs) determined?
Why are RVUs so important to billing?
How much do Geographic Practice Cost Indices (GPCIs) affect payments?
What status indicators apply to which codes and where do you find that information?
How often does CMS revise and update RVUs?
What are supervision rules and how does compliance depend on them?
Where are codes indicated as bilateral, non-covered, professional/technical and so on?
How can you avoid claim denials based on global period days?
Why is the MPFS database important, even for healthcare professionals who are nonparticipating?
Even if you’ve used the Physician Fee Schedule for years, this session will open your eyes to additional reimbursement opportunities and possible compliance missteps. You will get the keys necessary to unlock the numerous benefits of this valuable tool and put them to work for your practice.
PART 2: Medicare Physician Fee Schedule 2020: Optimize Your Reimbursement
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You may think you are charging Medicare everything you are entitled to, but you are probably NOT. This means you are doing the work, and not getting paid. This will only get worse if you fail to implement the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule 2020 changes by the January 1st deadline.
Updating your fee schedule is the ONLY way you can get paid every penny that you deserve from Medicare. The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule 2020 update will include drastic revisions that will directly impact how and what you are paid for the Medicare services you provide. Not making these changes means you could wind up leaving thousands of uncollected dollars on the table.
Mastering the numerous Medicare Physician Fee Schedule 2020 changes on your own can be overwhelming, and leave you open to costly mistakes. But you don’t have to do it alone, coding expert and educator, Kim Huey, MJ, CHC, CPC, CCS-P, PCS, CPCO, COC, can help.
During her online training, Kim will walk you through how to identify the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule 2020 changes that will most impact your practice. After attending this training, you’ll fully understand what you need to do before the January 1, 2020 deadline to improve your compliance and make sure you get paid more of what you deserve.
Here are just a few of the practical, step-by-step Medicare Physician Fee Schedule 2020 implementation tactics you’ll receive by taking advantage of this 60-minute online training:
Get prepared for billing for time spent managing patients with greater needs and medical conditions
Tackle added revenue for 3 new e-visit codes (99421-99423) that replace unpaid 99444
Take full advantage of new Medicare reimbursement available for MAT opioid
Uncover new reimbursable codes for chronic care management services (G codes)
Master mandated consultation requirements for new advanced imaging services to test delays
Apply changing improvement activities performance categories to get credit for everything you deserve
Updates on plans for evaluation and management massive changes for 2021
Accurately incorporate new Medicare principal care management for chronic condition code (GPPP2)
Pin down the 2020 conversion factor to better plan your revenue
Massive wins and losses for RVUs by specialty
And so much more…
Who should attend? This training is beneficial for all practices that bill Medicare.
So much focus is typically put on new payment opportunities each year, that it’s easy for you to miss new opportunities for billing the services you already perform. You need to successfully incorporate all Medicare Physician Fee Schedule 2020 changes that apply to your practice, not just one aspect of it.
You’ll walk away from this must-attend training with a firm understanding of how you can incorporate the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule 2020 changes successful the first time. Don’t risk getting audited and leaving thousands in uncollected reimbursements on the table by not correctly implementing the 2020 Fee Schedule changes by the January 1st deadline. Don’t wait, sign up today.
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Tracy has many years healthcare management experience in multiple specialties in the areas of practice operations, revenue cycle management, coding, documentation, staff training, communications, policy and procedure development, and workflow redesign. Her experience includes work with private practices, hospital based practices, rural health clinics, and FQHC’s She is an ACMPE Fellow with MGMA, a Certified Professional Coder (CPC), a Certified Professional Medical Auditor (CMPA), a Certified Evaluation and Management Auditor (CEMC) a Certified Professional Medical Coding Curriculum instructor (CPC-I).
Tracy is co-founder and past president of the NE Kansas Chapter of AAPC, a past president of MGMA-GKC, is the ACMPE Forum Rep for Kansas, and Kansas City, and previously served on the Certification Commission for National MGMA. Tracy is also an independent practice management consultant with national MGMA. Tracy presents to many healthcare organizations on a variety of practice management topics as well as being a National speaker for MGMA and AAPC.
Kim is an independent coding and reimbursement consultant, providing audit, training and oversight of coding and reimbursement functions for physicians. Kim completed three years of pre-medical education at the University of Alabama before she decided that she preferred the business side of medicine.
She completed a Bachelor’s degree in Health Care Management and went on to obtain certification through the American Academy of Professional Coders and the American Health Information Management Association.
Recognizing the important position of compliance in today’s world, she has also obtained certification as a Certified Healthcare Compliance Consultant and a Certified Healthcare Audit Professional. Kim is also an AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM trainer and has recently earned a Master of Jurisprudence in Health Law.
For over twenty-five years, Kim has worked with providers in virtually all specialties, from General Surgery to Obstetrics/Gynecology to Oncology to Internal Medicine and beyond. She has spoken at the national conference for numerous organizations.
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