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The Advanced Coding Workshop is designed to help your practice receive accurate reimbursement through knowledge of Medicare guidelines, CPT and ICD-9-CM coding. If you have completed a CPT and ICD-9-CM course, you have learned the rules. Now learn to combine and apply them.
This workshop is for participants who have some training in ICD-9-CM and CPT. For optimal benefit, we recommend that experienced coders attend this workshop.
You should attend this course if you wish to:
- Enhance your knowledge of accurate and legal coding rules
- Learn how to provide the level of medical necessity to the highest degree of specificity
- Protect the practice from innocent errors due to improper coding
The workshop exercises will test your knowledge of:
- Modifiers
- Concurrent Care
- Consultations vs. Visits
- Unbundling
- Injuries
- Justification of Services by Diagnosis
- Evaluation & Management Codes
- Diagnosis Coding Rules
- Supplementary V-Codes
- Mandatory E-Codes
- Post Op Complications
- Global Surgical Packages and Billing
- Exceptions to Coding Rules
- CPT Guidelines
- ICD-9-CM Notes, Symbols, and Tables
Workshop objectives include:
- Improving theory and confidence when coding unique situations.
- Recognizing when an encounter is a consultation or an evaluation.
- Selecting the code that best describes the procedure.
- Utilizing modifiers to get paid.
- Understanding coding systems sufficiently to spot poor or erroneous coding practices.
- Learning why communication between coders, billers and physicians must be clear to receive accurate reimbursement.
- Learning to avoid truncated ICD-9-CM codes.
- HANDS ON EXERCISES, coding actual cases and spotting errors in rejected claims.
Fee: $249
REGISTRATION INFORMATION: To register for this program, contact the Practice Management Institute (PMI) at 1-800-259-5562 or visit them online at www.pmimd.com.
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