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Neurosurgery Coding Boosters: Brain Tumor Excision vs. Hematoma Evacuation

Neurosurgery Coding Boosters: Brain Tumor Excision vs. Hematoma Evacuation

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Event Information

Product format	Pre Recorded Event
Presenter	Greg Przybylski, MD
Speciality	Neurosurgery
Conference Date	Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Aired Time (ET)	1 pm ET \| 12 pm CT \| 11 am MT \| 10 am PT
Length	60 Minutes

Product Description

These tricky skull surgery coding slip-ups could cost you big-time.

It's one thing to code for brain tumor excision and quite another to code for hematoma evacuation. But, what do you do if you're coding for both concurrently? Obviously you're going to use skull base surgery codes and you'll have to know the rules. Join Gregory Przybylski, MD as he teaches you how to code for complex skull surgeries. Greg will not only teach you the rules for coding in this situation, he will also walk you through case scenarios to highlight how to properly code for these procedures.

Here's what you will learn:

Effectively use modifiers to obtain appropriate reimbursement for tumor excision after recent biopsy.
Learn which hematoma evacuation codes accept the bilateral surgery modifier.
Zoom in on how to describe abdominal wall craniotomy flap placement/retrieval in traumatic brain swelling
Some tumors have specific codes that are to be used in lieu of skull base surgery codes – learn which ones.
Key components and supporting codes for craniotomies.
Location is everything especially for hematomas as applied to coding hematoma evacuation..

Who should attend? Certified coders, office manager, neurosurgeons billing professionals and compliance officers.

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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.