Don't let a simple oversight -- like supervision requirements -- bomb your swallowing study reimbursement.

Billing for swallowing evaluations and treatment procedures can be a mouthful -- especially with all the documentation requirements, coding edits and 3rd-party payer stipulations.

Make sure you're making the best clinical decisions with your swallowing studies -- and are recouping fair reimbursement for them by joining nationally-known board-certified swallowing specialist Nancy Swigert for this 1-hour session.

You'll walk away with tools to better comply with coding rules and documentation requirements for this cutting-edge field in speech-language pathology

Here’s a sampling of the details you’ll learn:

• The newest ICD-9 codes for dysphagia that reflect the relationship between phases of swallow.
• Yield the best treatment planning info: How to choose the right type of dysphagia evaluation.
• Key differences between endoscopic and videofluoroscopic exams ... and the documentation must-haves.
• Did you really need to do that re-evaluation? These guidelines will show you the answer.
• Required physician involvement and supervision for instrumental swallowing studies.
• Multiple services on the same date? Let CCI edits be your guide. Learn your OCE edits too.
• Facilitate your reimbursement: How to match the right diagnosis code to the procedure code.

Who should attend? Speech-language pathologists in all health care settings who see patients with dysphagia, compliance officers, coders and billers, as well as rehab directors whose clinics treat swallowing disorders.

Why use AudioEducator?

• Skip the costly travel arrangements and wasted time. Our conferences are available from the comfort and convenience of your own office or meeting room.
• Multiple formats to fit your training needs. All of our conferences are available on CD or PDF transcript so you can train your staff around your schedule.
• Every conference includes the speaker's materials so you can keep learning long after the conference is over.
• Gather around a speaker phone or computer and train your team for one low price.
• Multiple locations? Ask our customer specialists about discounts for your whole staff.
  

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Nancy B. Swigert, MA, CCC-SLP, BRS-S, is the director of Speech-Language Pathology and Respiratory Care at Central Baptist Hospital, an acute care facility in Lexington, KY.   Prior to this, for twenty six years, Nancy was the President of Swigert & Associates, Inc. a private practice providing speech-language pathology services in the Central Kentucky area.

She is a speech-language pathologist and a Board Recognized Specialist in Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders. Her main practice interests are in the area of pediatric and adult dysphagia and other neurogenic disorders. She has authored seven books on clinical topics as well as numerous book chapters and articles. She has given hundreds of lectures at the state, national and international levels in the areas of dysphagia, motor speech disorders, reimbursement and coding.

She received her master’s degree from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.  She is a former President of the Kentucky Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Council of State Association Presidents, and was President of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 1998.  She currently chairs the Health Care Economics Committee and serves on the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation Board of Trustees.