Coding at the Beach

October 12, 2019

7:30 AM to 4:30 PM

Requesting individual CEUs for each 1 hour section as follows, a total of 7 CEUs in all. Requesting individual CEUs in case attendees have to leave partway through the day or miss sections of the day.

1 CEU for 1 hour for Baby Talk presented by Dr. Lisa M. Voss

Dr. Vos will be speaking about the Mary Free Bed Kids Early Development Program. She will discuss what the program consists of as well as the different issues that they treat such as feeding difficulties, developmental delays, genetic disorders, and hydrocephalus. She will discuss coding of these clinic visits. Dr. Vos is a Orthopaedic physician at Orthopaedic Associates of Muskegon.

1 CEU for 1 hour for E & M Past, Present, & Future presented by Sarah Pike, COC, CPC, COBGC

Sarah will be speaking about the documentation changes for E&M codes implemented by CMS. She will also be addressing proposed changes for 2020 and reviewing a few case examples as time allows. Sarah works on the payer side at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in the Provider Relations area and has experience with audit and billing issues.

1 CEU for 1 hour for ICD-10-CM Update Part 1 presented by Kathy Jo Uecker, CMPE, EFPM, NCP, CPC, COC, AAPC Fellow, CHSPA, CHSA

1 CEU for 1 hour for ICD-10-CM Update Part 2 presented by Kathy Jo Uecker, CMPE, EFPM, NCP, CPC, COC, AAPC Fellow, CHSPA, CHSA

Kathy Jo will be presenting from 10:45 to 11:45 and from 12:45 to 1:45. She is back for a fourth year to present the ICD-10-CM updates to us. Kathy Jo is an excellent speaker and succeeds in making this very dry topic interesting and fun. She is the owner of her own billing and consulting firm and is very knowledgeable about billing, auditing, coding, and most things that apply to our chapter members.

1 CEU for 1 hour for Medical Terminology/Anatomy Beachball Challenge presented by Sarah Pike, COC, CPC, COBGC

Sarah will be leading attendees in an interactive game to help refresh attendees on medical terminology and anatomy. Several different beachballs will have anatomy/medical terminology words written on them and the players will need to define the terms and answer questions regarding the terms on the beachballs.

1 CEU for 1 hour for Demystifying Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) Risk Coding presented by Liz Cook, CPC, CRC, CASC, CCA, CHA, AAPC Fellow

Liz will review what HCCs are, what the provider responsibilities are for HCCs, the elements and organizations of HCCs, documentation strategies as well as examples.

1 CEU for 6 Coding Challenges offered during Breaks/Lunch – 1 hour of actual content. This CEU will only be awarded to attendees who provide a completed coding challenge handout at the end of the day. This year we are tying the coding challenges to beach/surfer themed movies.

Example coding challenge:

• Bodhi is bummin because he has kidney failure and has to postpone catching some bomb waves to get some dialysis. He is seen in the dialysis department for his hemodialysis treatment. Before treatment is administered, Dr. Utah performs a history and examination. Bodhi is found to be doing well enough to receive his dialysis at this time. He receives his dialysis and is sent home. As he is leaving Dr. Utah sees an ex-President mask peaking out of Bodhi’s bag. Busted... What procedure code is reported?

• A. 90937

• B. 90945

• C. 90935

• D. 93990

Answer: C is correct

• Bodhi is having hemodialysis, eliminating answer choice B. A duplex scan is not being performed in this scenario, eliminating answer choice D. The physician only evaluated the patient once, eliminating answer choice A.

• Bonus – what movie is being referenced in this challenge?

• Point Break

Next page is the full agenda.

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Question please call Sarah Pike at 616-389-2119

Coding at the BeachA G E N D A

7:30 Arrival and Registration 8:00 Announcements and General

Housekeeping Liz Cook, CPC, CRC, CASC, CCA, CHA, AAPC

Fellow 8:15 Baby Talk

Dr. Lisa M. Voss 9:15 Coding Challenge One/Break 9:30 E & M: Past, Present & Future

Sarah Pike, COC, CPC, COBGC 10:30 Coding Challenge Two/Break 10:45 ICD-10-CM Update Part One

Kathy Jo Uecker, CMPE, EFPM, NCP, CPC, COC, AAPC Fellow, CHSPA, CHSA

11:45 Coding Challenge Three & Four/Lunch 12:45 ICD-10-CM Update Part Two

Kathy Jo Uecker, CMPE, EFPM, NCP, CPC, COC, AAPC Fellow, CHSPA, CHSA

1:45 Coding Challenge Five/Break 2:00 Medical Terminology/Anatomy Beachball

Challenge Sarah Pike, COC, CPC, COBGC

3:00 Coding Challenge Six/Break 3:15 Demystifying Hierarchical Condition

Category (HCC) Risk Coding Liz Cook, CPC, CRC, CASC, CCA, CHA, AAPC

Fellow

Date:October 12, 2019

Time:7:30 AM to 4:30 PM

Place of Meeting:Wallinwood Springs Golf

Club8152 Weatherwax Drive,

Jenison, MI 49428