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Webinars
Every three weeks, we provide 30-45 minute Knowledge Breaks on specific aspects of Medicare reimbursement. Each interactive web conference includes a question and answer period. What you learn during these sessions can help you directly impact operational effectiveness, process efficiencies and market competitiveness.
Registration via email is required. You can register up to 24 hours prior to the start of a webinar.
Many of these interactive sessions are available to the general public.
Email us for more information: editor@burgessgroup.com
Upcoming Knowledge Breaks:
03/09/2010: Redefining Consultations
Time: 2:00PM Eastern Time
Medicare introduced a new coding policy of services typically described as “consultations”. Attendees will be presented a background of these services, detail of the specific changes made, discussion of who this policy affects, and determination of how payers (and providers alike) should accommodate these changes (crosswalk, etc.). Information on how providers are affected by adopting or not adopting this new policy will also be covered. Special emphasis will be placed upon the financial implications related to the development of internal consultation coding policy.
Who Should Attend: Claims Processors - Quality Improvement - Claim Supervisors - Contract Management - Educators - BRS Trainers
Public
03/30/2010: Outliers
Time: 2:00PM Eastern Time
Outliers are an important part of prospective payment system methodology as a means to account for extraordinarily high costs. In this session, we’ll explore in detail…what outliers are, why are they important and how they are calculated? This includes adjustments made to the outlier calculation, identification of variables used in its calculation such as the cost-to-charge ratio (CCR) and outlier thresholds. Each of the provider types that use them and the manner in which they use them will also be covered. Finally, we’ll consider timely issues involving the outlier, such as “turbocharging”, and we’ll explore how CMS is addressing such issues.
Who Should Attend: Claims Processors - Quality Improvement - Claim Supervisors - Contract Management - Educators - BRS Trainers
Public
04/20/2010: Provider Numbers
Time: 2:00PM Eastern Time
CMS relies upon a variety of different provider numbers to manage their various programs. Keeping up with each can be a daunting task. In this session we’ll identify each of the different provider numbers used (NPI, OSCAR, CCN, Taxonomy, CLIA) and how it is specifically used in CMS. Also presented will be efforts made to consolidate and simplify this system including standardization of specific types and elimination of others. Finally, we’ll address how to identify provider numbers that are not readily available.
Who Should Attend: Claims Processors - Quality Improvement - Claim Supervisors - Contract Management - Educators - BRS Trainers
Public