2010 Coding Updates

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March 16, 2010
Managing Information and Communication Overload in Healthcare
Presenter: Jeff Davidson

March 17, 2010
ENCORE: Observation vs. Admitting - Meet these Guidelines to Ensure Pay
Presenter: Elin Baklid-Kunz

March 19, 2010
Bilateral Billing for Interventional Pain Procedures
Presenter: Joanne Mehmert

March 24, 2010
Infectious Disease: Protecting Your Patients, Your Office and Yourself
Presenter: Dianne Ditmer

April 7, 2010
Coaching and Retaining Your Healthcare Talent
Presenter: Bruce Lee

April 28, 2010
RAC Audit Update for 2010
Presenter: Robert W. Markette, Jr.

May 19, 2010
Prepare for Unseen Liabilities: FCA, FERA and Their Impact on Healthcare
Presenter: Robert W. Markette, Jr.

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ENCORE: 2010 Emergency Department Coding Update

Presented by Caral Edelberg, CPC, CCS-P, CHC, 1 CEU Approved

This conference originally aired on: 02/26/2010.

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Even though the codes may stay the same - Medicare and CPT continue to clarify and define. Get the updates for 2010.

Join Emergency Department coding expert, Caral Edelberg for this 60-minute update for all of the updates you need to get 2010 coding confidence.

PLUS: Caral will give you a FAQ sheet that covers the major areas of concern in emergency medicine including medical decision making, E/Ms billed with procedures, observation, and diagnostic interpretations.

Here's what you will learn:

  • New codes - New clarifications - New approaches
  • Get the scoop on current issues in emergency medicine coding and compliance.
  • Learn to avoid the medical decision making traps.
  • Medicare and CPT descriptions for ED E/M services: What are the differences between them?
  • Will the CPT changes in consultation codes effect my ED coding?
  • Zoom in on how to compare your E/M distribution to state and national distribution to identify risk areas.

This is a pre-recorded event.

Your Expert Speakers

Caral Edelberg

Caral Edelberg, CPC, CCS-P, CHC, is an emergency medicine and hospitalist coding and compliance consultant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for Edelberg Compliance Associates. She is also the founder and president emeritus of Medical Management Resources for TeamHealth in Jacksonville, Florida. Edelberg currently develops training, auditing and monitoring tools while providing compliance audits used to identify coding and billing problems. She is an active member of many professional organizations and has served on the National Advisory Board for the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) and the Coding and Nomenclature Advisory Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). She is a frequent author and speaker on healthcare management topics, including outpatient facility coding and billing, medical record documentation policies, healthcare compliance, effective communication within healthcare systems, specialized coding compliance training for physicians and residents, COBRA/EMTALA and CPT/ICD-9 coding and billing. Edelberg co-authored the Emergency Medicine Study Guide and Emergency Medicine Specialty Examination for the Advanced Board of Medical Coding (ABMC), authored the Emergency Medicine Study Guide and Emergency Medicine Competency Examination published for Ingenix/AAPC, and co-authored the current Emergency Medicine Study Guide and Competency Examination for the AAPC. She is the past consulting editor and currently serves on the editorial advisory committee of The Coding Institute's ED (Emergency Department) Coding Alert. She serves on the editorial advisory boards of ED Management, OPPS Insider and APC Advisor.



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