You deserve to be paid more for the post-discharge and chronic care services you provide. But unless you know how, you ARE losing money – which is the case for most practices.
Over the past few years, new codes and reduced compliance guidelines have made getting paid for both transitional and chronic care easier, but you have to know what you are doing.
If you correctly implement Transitional Care Management (TCM) services, you can double your Medicare reimbursement for with just a few changes in your current process.
With a few easy-to-implement modifications to how you offer and document the Chronic Care Management (CCM) services you provide, you can expect to add thousands of dollars a month to your bottom line.
You’ll continue to provide these much needed services for free, unless you make a change. Physician and certified professional coder, Michael Stearns, MD, CPC, CFPC, and national coding expert and educator Kim Garner Huey, MJ, CHC, CPC, CCS-P, PCS, CPCO, have put together two can’t-miss online training sessions that will help you finally get paid more for these essential services.
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PART 1: Transitional Care Management: Finally Get Paid What You Deserve
Available Immediately Order the on-demand version and listen to it at your convenience.
Utilizing TCM codes correctly can be tricky. It requires attention to detail and a thorough understanding of their compliance requirements. But, when you consider the possible increased reimbursement, it is well worth it.
This is where physician and certified professional coder, Michael Stearns, MD, CPC, CFPC can help. During his 60-minute online training, Dr. Stearns will provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to accurately utilize and comply with these complex codes so you can finally get paid for more of the services you provide.
Here are just a few of the questions you’ll get answered during this must-see, 60-minute practical session:
How does service location fit into the equation?
Do patients have to be a certain age to qualify?
Can you only use codes 99495 and 99496 for established patients?
What type of providers can take advantage of these codes (MDs, PA, etc.)?
What if you can’t reach the patient or caregivers during the two days post-discharge?
How are calendar days and business days used when providing TCM services?
When does the medication reconciliation take place, and does it have to be during a face-to-face encounter?
Are TCM services limited to the discharging provider?
What can be coded and billed in addition to the TCM services during the TCM time period?
What should the date of service be on the TCM services claim?
And many more…
Who should attend? Don’t make the mistake of thinking that using TCM codes is not worth it. This training session will help clinicians, office managers, auditors, and coding professionals better understand these confusing codes. It will help you more accurately utilize them and boost your TCM reimbursement.
You deserve to be paid accurately for post-discharge services. They are an important part of ensuring your patients are well cared for and stay out of the hospital long-term. Learn how to seamlessly implement (or better utilize) TCM codes 99495 and 99496 into your practice to and finally get paid more of what you deserve. Don’t delay, register for this must-seeonline training today.
PART 2: Chronic Care Mgmt: Improve Coding Accuracy, Get Paid More
Available Immediately Order the on-demand version and listen to it at your convenience.
You can get paid even more for your sickest patients – basically reimbursing you closer to what you deserve for the added care you provide for them. But there is a catch…
…you must know how to correctly apply CCM codes (including the new code for 2019). On your own, this is no small feat. The reporting requirements are still numerous, but, with a little guidance, you can master the rules quickly and easily and stop providing this much needed care for free. You can learn how by accessing the online raining by national coding expert and educator, Kim Garner Huey, MJ, CHC, CPC, CCS-P, PCS, CPCO.
Here are just some of the tactics you’ll receive during this 90-minute online training session:
Calculate “hidden” times you can include toward the 20-minute requirement
Boost care planning pay up for patients with cognitive impairment
Identify all care providers that qualify to bill CCM – it might surprise you
Determine whether the CCM telehealth services code will work for you
Learn how rural health clinics and FQHCs qualify to bill for CCM services
Avoid confusion between CCM and transitional care management with simple to use tools
Develop a successful patient-centered care plan document that will withstand an audit every time
And so much more…
Regardless of your specialty, if you see chronically ill patients, you deserve to receive additional reimbursement for the added time you spend.
IMPORTANT: Considering that half of all Americans in the U.S. (117 million people) suffer from at least one chronic disease, it’s likely you have quite a few patients that qualify under CCM guidelines. That means you can pick up an additional $43 to $141 (depending on the complexity of each patient’s needs) per month per patient. This added revenue is compensating you for work you are going to provide anyway, so you have nothing to lose.
Don’t wait any longer. If you care for chronically ill patients and are not effectively utilizing CCM codes, you’re leaving tens of thousands of reimbursement dollars on the table just waiting to be collected. In only 90 minutes, you can get everything you need to ensure you receive the additional reimbursement you’re rightfully entitled to for spending the extra time it takes to care for your sickest patients.
Michael Stearns, MD, CPC, CFPC, CRC is a physician informaticist, certified professional coder (CPC), certified family practice coder (CFPC) and certified risk adjustment coder (CRC). He is the CEO and Founder of Apollo HIT, LLC, an organization that provides healthcare information technology (HIT) and compliance consulting services.
His company assists organizations with meeting their documentation, compliance, coding, risk adjustment, EHR optimization and other program goals; including performance in quality and efficiency-based incentive programs.
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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You and your entire team, at all your locations, can attend as many live and view as many recorded trainings as you like for 12 months.
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