Dennis L. Padget
Dennis L. Padgett, MBA, CPA, FHFMA, is the president and founder
of DLPadget Enterprises Inc. in Simpsonville, Kentucky, and the publisher of
the Pathology
Service Coding Handbook, the only comprehensive guide to accurate, complete
CPT, HCPCS, and ICD-9-CM coding for anatomic and clinical pathology professional
and technical services currently available. He is a certified public accountant
and a fellow in the Healthcare Financial Management
Association. He has a
master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago
and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Northern Iowa.
Padget
is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management
Association, the American
Pathology Foundation, the American
Health Lawyers Association, and the Editorial
Advisory Board of Pathology/Lab Coding Alert. He is
a frequent speaker at state and national pathology and laboratory professional
association meetings and has published numerous articles on hospital and physician
payment, compliance, and accounting issues.
Prior to his retirement from active
consulting at the end of 2003, Padget headed Padget & Associates, a
pathology and laboratory financial management and compliance advisory firm.
During its nearly 23-year existence, Padget & Associates
served several hundred physician practices, independent laboratories, medical
billing agencies, and hospitals in about 40 states. The firm specialized in
healthcare compliance plan development and management; anatomical and clinical
pathology CPT charge and ICD9CM diagnosis coding evaluation and update studies;
third-party, managed care, and hospital contracting; laboratory and pathology
joint venturing and outsourcing; and pathology group integration planning and
implementation.
10/09/07 - Coverage, Payment, and Coding Challenges
10/09/07 - Preparing for Medicare’s PQRI
