*Breakfast, lunch, and beverages will be provided.
The Crowne Plaza Hotel
925 S Creyts Rd
Lansing, MI 48917
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Call 1-517-323-7100 and mention "LIB" and Michigan Medical Billers Association for a special rate.
8:00 – 9:00 am Keynote |
Speaker: Dustin Dale
Description: This keynote will focus on self-care but also the "self-care" as a team. This message will inspire the members to see that a team can create and work towards strong goals, and when rallied together, they can deliver the best results!
9:15 am- 10:15 am 1st Breakout |
Speaker: Shannon DeConda, CPC, CEMC, CEMA, CPMA, CRTT
Description: Prior to the new E&M guidelines, AMA CPT did not reference medical necessity. The Claim Process Manual was our main point of reference for statement: "Medical necessity is the overarching determining factor". While 2021 Documentation Guidelines uses 2 key components of time and MDM, the guidelines came armed with references of medical necessity littered throughout inferring that maybe it's NOT always just 2 or the 3 key components. Let’s consider medical necessity
Speaker: Mary Muchow
Description: This presentation will be an overview of WPS GHA Local Coverage Determinations, Chemotherapy Drugs, and their Adjuncts. Also included Timely Topics, Resources, and Questions and Answers.
Speaker: Lori-Ann Rickard
Description: Find out about your potential individual liability as a biller when the government audits your healthcare entity.
Speaker: Mary Mallory CEMC, CRC
Description: This session will review the most miscoded hierarchical condition categories (HCCs), walk attendees through the basic risk adjustment and answer why risk adjustment is important.
10:15-10:30 pm Break |
10:30-11:30 am 2nd Breakout |
Speaker: Shannon DeConda CPC, CEMC, CEMA, CPMA, CRTT
Description: The best way to validate the appropriate use of the 25 modifier is by analyzing the documentation for 2 simple criteria: Was the E&M service separate from the procedure and was it significant. This training will work through these rules with a straightforward approach and with redacted patient encounters so that attendees walk out with a clear understanding of the 25 modifier.
Speaker: Kristine Cummings CPC, CIMC, CEMA
Description: Remote Patient Monitoring is a hot topic. Be sure you understand each code’s meaning and have documentation presented to support the services. You’ll be able to take this information and formulate a documentation plan and a review/audit plan.
Speaker: Dustin Dale
Description: Communication is sometimes the most challenging aspect of working as a team! During this session, we will learn to DRAW upon communication and understand how to build trust as a team.
Speaker Lori-Ann Rickard
Description: Learn how to understand and navigate physician contracts. We will also touch on the current status of HIPAA and what to know for your office.
12:15 -1:15 pm 3rd Breakout |
Speaker: April Boyce BSM, AA, CPC, CHA, CMOM
Description: This educational session reviews coding the entire encounter; review of the top HCC’s and coding guidance for capturing them. Coding scenarios are reviewed and coding explanations given based on coding guidelines associated with the scenario.
Speaker: Mary Muchow
Description: This presentation will be an overview of WPS GHA Local Coverage Determinations, Psychiatry and Psychology Services. Also included the Coding and Billing Article L57480, Timely Topics, Resources, and Questions and Answers.
Speaker: Terry Habib MS, LLP, CBIS
Description: Cultural competency is the ability to understand and effectively interact with people from cultures that are different from our own. This cultural competency training for healthcare professionals focuses on skills and knowledge that value diversity, understand, and respond to cultural differences, and increases awareness of providers’ and care organizations’ cultural norms. Upon completion of this training, the individual will have learned the 5 directives of Cultural Competency: 1) Value Diversity, 2) Conduct Self Assessments, 3) Manage the Dynamics of Difference, 4) Acquire and Institutionalize Cultural Knowledge and 5) Adapt to Diversity and Cultural Differences.
Speaker: Sue Butler CPC, CPC-I, CPB, CIMC, CAWC
Description: A review of the billing and coding guidelines for Michigan Workers Compensation. Highlights key requirements you may not be familiar with.
1:15 -1:30 Break |
1:30 pm-2:30 pm 4th Breakout |
Speaker: Kristine Cummings CPC, CIMC, CEMA
Description: Split/Shared has gone through so many changes over the last few years. Get updated on documentation to support split/shared services to be sure to not lose deserved revenue. This information will be great for starting a workflow process and a review/audit plan.
Speaker: Dr. David Young
Description: Clinical manifestations differentiate the 18 separate codes for asthma and the 3 for COPD. This lecture will present an overview of what those differences are. There are 43 different listings under Sleep Disorders that will also be discussed along with their coding nuances.
Speaker: April Boyce BSM, AA, CPC, CHA, CMOM
Description: This educational session reviews medical record documentation reminders; common coding errors; 2023 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code updates. Tips for avoiding down-coding and upcoding reviewed; tips for proper documentation and coding of well visits and screening visits reviewed, plus other coding tips for primary care providers and specialty providers.
Speaker: Sue Butler CPC, CPC-I, CPB, CIMC, CAWC
Description: Offer "food" for thought on follow-up and maintaining the A/R. Where is the A/R on the list of daily or monthly priorities?
2:45 - 3:45 pm 5th Breakout |
Panel Members: Shannon DeConda, Mary Muchow, Lori-Ann Rickard, April Boyce, Sue Butler, Dr. David Young, Kristine Cummings, MMBA board
Description: Ask the Experts Roundtable Panel. Our expert panel of speakers from the day at EXPO will answer the difficult coding and billing questions.
| Level | Cost | Benefits |
| Gold | $750 |
- Premium placement of table/booth (Limit 2 booth attendants with meals included.) |
| Silver | $600 | - Table/ Booth (Limit 2 booth attendants with meals included.) - Sign with logo displayed near registration table. - Half page acknowledgement in on-site program - Special thanks in our online newsletter (to include link to your website) - Plus, all benefits of the Pre-promotion Sponsorship |
| Bronze | $450 | - Table/Booth (Limit 2 for booth attendants with meals included.) - Quarter Page acknowledgement in on-site program - Plus, all benefits of the Pre-promotion Sponsorship |
| Pre-Promotion | $250 | - Pre-event promotion via Social Media and member emails - Your logo as part of the placeholder; slide that is displayed prior to the start of the Expo - An introduction of you as our sponsor at the beginning of the Expo |
| Additional: | $750 | Breakfast Sponsor |
| $1,000 | Lunch Sponsor | |
| $750 | Snack Break Sponsor | |
| $750 | Expo Brochure Sponsor | |
| $1000 | Name Badge Sponsor | |
| $250 | 1/4 Page Ad in Expo Brochure ONLY |
| This program has the prior approval of AAPC for 6 continuing education hours. Granting of prior approval in no way constitutes endorsement by the AAPC of the program content or the program sponsor. |
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