Staying in compliance with ever-changing and often-ambiguous coding, billing, and reimbursement rules is a constant challenge for clinical laboratories and pathologists. But a new year offers a fresh start and new opportunities for solving your compliance dilemmas.
Join us during this 90-minute national audio conference as billing and coding expert Diana Voorhees explains upcoming changes and discuss what you can do – right now – to ensure you receive fair and accurate payment in 2008.
During this program, you’ll:
- Learn about procedural and diagnosis coding changes for 2008 and forecast their impact on billing and budgetary issues
- Understand other coverage and payment changes associated with the Medicare physician fee schedule, the clinical laboratory fee schedule, and the outpatient prospective payment system
- Gain a better understanding of correct coding initiative (CCI) edits and medically unlikely edits (MUEs) and how they will affect your business
- Discuss additional issues that impact the laboratory industry
FEATURED SPEAKER:
Diana Voorhees, M.A., CLS, MT, SH, CLCP
President, DV & Associates Inc.
Host & Moderator:
Kimberly Scott
Senior Editor, Washington G-2 Reports
You’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions in our interactive Q&A portion of the program. Take this hassle-free approach to learning about billing, coding, and reimbursement changes for 2008. And you can invite your entire group – for one low fee. For more information, please call 800-401-5937, ext. 2.
Continuing education credit is available.
Washington G-2 Reports is approved as a provider of PACE contact hour credits for clinical laboratory professionals, including Florida or California licensees, by the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS). This program qualifies for 1.5 CEU credit hours.
