Continental Breakfast Will Be Served
RSVP By September 17, 2018
Registration at 7:30, Meeting Begins at 8:00am
SPEAKER: Robin Hicks, COC, CPC, CAHI, Adjunct Faculty at Macomb Community College
Robin Smith Hicks, COC, CPC, C-AHI has over 25 years of health care experience, and has been teaching Medical Assisting, Billing and Coding for over 15 years at Macomb Community College. Her current project is development of online curriculum for medical coding and curriculum advisor for MCC. In 2015, she retired from Trinity Health System in Livonia, where she worked as an ICD-10 Coding Compliance Analyst, assisting over 70 hospital systems nationwide in preparing for ICD-10. She was a Coding Educator at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, working with providers, coders and billers to promote compliant documentation and as a speaker for local coding, auditing and medical assisting associations.
Effective October 1, 2018, the 2019 ICD-10-CM codes will need to be reported on claims. There are 473 changes, which include 279 new codes, 143 revised codes and 51 codes will no longer be valid for reporting purposes. This presentation will cover these changes, guideline changes and documentation tips for healthcare providers.
Speaker: Amy Miilu, Health Insurance Resource Specialist, Financial Services Office of Consumer Services
Amy will discuss how our complaint process can assist patients when they have a dispute with the way their health care claim was processed.
This program has the prior approval of AAPC for 3 continuing education hours. Granting of prior approval in no way constitutes endorsement by AAPC of the program content or the program sponsor.