Hey everyone! We just finished editing and duplicating our new Advanced Coding Strategies seminar that we held in Dallas a couple weeks ago. I’m very happy with how it turned out.
Here is an example note for a complicated chronic patient. Read the note and answer the following questions: (1) What should be the level of service (99213, 99214, 99215) for this patient? (2) What is this note as written? (3) What is missing?
History of Present Illness: Medical/Social/Family History reviewed with patient today:
Current Medications:
Hospitalizations: 1998 CVA with CABG. Surgeries:
Social History: Tobacco Use: Denies tobacco use. Alcohol Use: Denies alcohol use. Retired in 1988.
Review of Systems: Physical Examination:
Procedure(s):
Assessment:
Plan: (Start)
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We are just about done finalizing our 2012 Coding Growth Strategies calendar. We will be holding 5 conferences from February through April of next year. Right now the planned venues include Dallas, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Chicago. We should have the final dates firmed up in the next few weeks and will let you know as soon as we do.
In a couple of weeks I’m going to be starting our new webinar series. There are many topics that I’ve been asked to cover that we simply don’t have time to do during our seminars. Also, many of these topics lend themselves much better to a one hour seminar. The webinar format is very exciting in that neither you nor I have to leave our practices, fly or drive somewhere, stay in a hotel, etc. Our typical attendee is usually out over $1500 to attend a 4-6 hour conference. It typically takes about $13,000 to put on a conference. And neither of those figures count in the lost revenue we both face by leaving town.
Our first one will be 2012 CPT changes for Primary Care and will be held on Thursday November 10th at 12:00 noon (central standard time). This is an important topic to all of us and there are several changes this year that impact primary care practices.
The next one will be The Modifiers Every Primary Care Practice Must Know. It will be on Thursday, November 17th at 12 noon (CST). At every seminar we always get lots of questions about modifiers and in the past few years we have seen many practices get hurt financially for not using the correct modifiers.
Attendance is $99.95 per office. During the webinar you can have as many people as you like view and listen to the seminar. We will have a moderator that takes your questions as you type them and will have some time at the end of the hour to discuss them all. The webinar will be recorded and you will be sent the recording to watch again or have your employees or colleagues watch when they have time. If you are unable to attend at this time, you can order the recording on the website and it will be sent to you within 24 hours of the completed webinar.