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Coding for Spinal Surgery

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Product format	Pre Recorded Event
Presenter	Greg Przybylski, MD
Conference Date	Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Aired Time (ET)	1 pm ET \| 12 pm CT \| 11 am MT \| 10 am PT
Length	60 Minutes

Product Description

Spinal fusions, laminectomies, foramenotomies, oh my…

Don't let complex spinal surgeries scare you away from proper coding.

Join spinal surgeon and coding expert, Greg Przybylski, when he breaks down the critical elements of spinal surgery coding to into bite-sized pieces. You'll walk away with tools that ensure complete and accurate identification of the appropriate procedure codes you assign and you know the rules to a tee.

Take a look at what’s covered:

Know these primary and secondary elements of spinal surgery coding -- and why they're important.
Coding how-to for the newest technologies used in spinal surgery. Follow these case studies.
Did the doc cross spinal regions? Here's how to choose appropriate code combinations.
Junctional region and anterior-posterior procedure coding: Get your answers here.
Nail the number of levels of decompression, arthrodesis, and instrumentation performed.
3 Must-have tips on helping your surgeons improve operative note dictation.

Who should attend? Orthopedic and neurosurgical coders, billers, and practice managers.

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About the Speaker

Gregory Przybylski, MD is Professor of Neurosurgery at Seton Hall University and Director of Neurosurgery at the New Jersey Neuroscience Institute at JFK Medical Center and Jersey Shore University Medical Center. For more than a decade, he has been involved in socioeconomic issues for neurosurgery. Currently, he chairs the AANS-CNS Coding and Reimbursement Committee, and is immediate past chair of the CSNS Reimbursement Committee, the AANS Professional Development Coding Courses, the NASS Coding Update Courses and Socioeconomic Council Director for NASS. He represents neurosurgery at the AMA Relative Value Update Committee and was former advisor to the CPT Editorial Panel and a member of the Practice Expense Advisory Committee. He will be 1^st vice-president of the North American Spine Society in November. In the public sector, he has completing his appointment to the Practicing Physicians Advisory Council to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and was will be a member of the CMS Advisory Panel on Ambulatory Payment Classification. In the private insurance sector, he serves on the Physician Advisory Board of Humana and the Spine Advisory Board of United Healthcare.