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Management Briefing: New Medicare 2006 Outpatient Coding and Reimbursement Changes Live 90-Minute Audio Conference Scheduled For Thursday, December 8th at 1:30 pm ET
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) just announced dramatic changes to the rules for billing and coding hospital outpatient services in 2006. More than 500 codes will be deleted and new ones created with no grace period for compliance. And there will be over 230 code changes that directly affect the chargemaster. Join the Tina Ford, Senior Manager of Reimbursement and Vickie McElarney, Senior Manager of Chargemaster from BESLER Consulting, a leading advisory firm in healthcare financial management and operations, to get a better understanding of the new Medicare coding and reimbursement changes for OPPS and how it will impact your organization in this special 90-minute audio conference.
Manasquan, NJ (PRWEB) November 21, 2005 -- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) just announced dramatic changes to the rules for billing and coding hospital outpatient services in 2006. More than 500 codes will be deleted and new ones created with no grace period for compliance. And there will be over 230 code changes that directly affect the chargemaster.
Join Tina Ford, Senior Manager of Reimbursement and Vickie McElarney, Senior Manager of Chargemaster from BESLER Consulting, a leading advisory firm in healthcare financial management and operations, to get a better understanding of the new Medicare coding and reimbursement changes for OPPS and how it will impact your organization in this special 90-minute audio conference, "Management Briefing: New Medicare 2006 Outpatient Coding & Reimbursement Changes." The program is scheduled for Thursday, December 8th at 1:30 - 3:00 pm ET.
http://www.healthresourcesonline.com/edu/moc.htm
They will cover topics including:
- Review of the new 2006 Medicare code deletions and additions
- How to prioritize the over 700 changes to get the most important ones done on time
- Learn the reimbursement impact of the changes
- The new infusion therapy and chemotherapy infusion code changes
- Observation code changes and regulations -- what does it mean for reporting these codes?
- Contrast media code changes -- what are they and how do you bill them?
- New "Status Indicators" and what they mean to you
- Multiple pharmacy code changes plus say good by to generic versus brand name drugs
- Multiple radiopharmaceutical code changes
- What’s going on with 3 D reconstruction?
- Live question and answer session
According to CMS, the changes to the payment rates and increased volume of services will contribute to an overall increase in projected payments to over 4,200 hospitals for Medicare outpatient services of $27.6 billion in 2006 compared to projected payments of $26.2 billion in 2005, an increase of 5.4 percent. But this doesn’t necessarily mean that payments will increase to your organization. Attend this conference and bring your staff members to evaluate the changes to determine if this will mean an increase or decrease in payments to your organization!
"There’s a lot of work to be done with this year’s changes almost doubling last year’s… and still no grace period!" Be prepared! The final rule will be effective for hospital outpatient services furnished on or after January 1, 2006.
How to Register
To register for "Management Briefing: New Medicare 2006 Outpatient Coding & Reimbursement Changes," visit http://www.healthresourcesonline.com/edu/moc.htm or call (800) 516-4343.
The cost of the conference is $227 per site if registered before November 30 and $277 after the early bird deadline. A CD will also be available for purchase for those unable to attend the live conference. For further details and other pricing options, visit http://www.healthresourcesonline.com/ edu/moc.htm.
Address: Health Resources Publishing, 1913 Atlantic Ave., Suite F4, Manasquan, NJ 08736; (732) 292-1100, www.healthresourcesonline.com
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