Conference Agenda
Wednesday
10:00 - 2:00 - Certification Exam
Wednesday 2:30-4:30 Vanishing Oath - Sherry Yingling, CPC, CMSCS/Marge McQuade, CMM, CMSCS - Movie w/ narration and discussion
Thursday
8:30 - 10:30 - Fraud & Abuse - Dedra Dyer, CCS-P, CMSCS, CMM, CAPPM, CHCO, CHCC, CPM-HCS
10:45 - 12:15 - How to survive a Fraud Investigation by the OIG - Ruth Beekman, CGCS
12:15- 1:30 - LUNCH
1:30 - 3:00 - Building a Compliance Program - Dedra Dyer, CCS-P, CMSCS, CMM, CAPPM, CHCO, CHCC, CPM-HCS
3:15-4:30 - Dealing with Difficult People - Marge McQuade, CMM, CMSCS
Friday
8:30 - 10:30 - AMA- Empower your practice with Data & Resources - Amy Farouk
10:45 - 12:15 - ICD-10 workshop - Marge McQuade, CMM, CMSCS
12:00 -1:30 - LUNCH
Friday 1:30-4:30 - AMA- Strengthening the Physician Practice's Financial Strength - Cindy Penkala, CMM, CMPE
Vanishing Oath - Opens the soul of medicine and identifies the causes of physician burnout, patient dissatisfaction and the obstacles to care which is the untrained corporate health care decision makers (insurance companies) that profit off doctors and patients. A film with Discussion by those attending moderated by Sherry Yingling and Marge McQuade, CMM, CMSCS
Fraud and Abuse - Learn what constitutes Fraud and Abuse in a medical practice and what the OIG and RAC auditors are looking for and how to keep an investigation out of your office.
What Happens when the OIG Investigates You - Learn what happens and how to deal with the OIG when they show up in your office.
Building a Compliance Program - Find out what needs to be in your office compliance plan and then how to build the compliance plan step by step. If your office has a compliance plan bring it with you and if your office doesn't you'll be able create it. This will be an interactive workshop.
ICD-10 Workshop - Learn the coding guidelines, and steps to code ICD-10 as well as some useful help to teach your doctors how to document for ICD-10. This will be a hands session where you will code ICD-9 and then learn how to code the same scenario with ICD-10.
Empower your practice with data and resources - Learn about the mission of the American Medical Association (AMA) Practice Management Center and the empowering practice management resources and data it offers physicians and their practice staff. Advance your practice with resources that help you effectively submit and appeal claims, address unfair payer practices, implement practice efficiencies and more.
Strengthening the physician practice's financial health - Maintaining a fee schedule that is both competitive with market levels and accurately accounts for the full cost of doing business is critical for the financial viability of the physician practice. This presentation will address fee schedule analysis as a primary opportunity to develop a defensible fee schedule and implement coding and billing protections to protect your practice from payer audits and steps to take if you are audited. Included will be a brief introduction to the American Medical Association's Practice Analysis Tools for Healthcare (AMA PATH®), an affordable new online tool that gives allows you to see how your practice looks to auditors.
