Spine Surgery Coding Today

CPT series 20,000 and 60,000 include numerous CPT sections regarding coding in spine surgery and many a time, one spine surgery case can involve a combination of different codes. These codes are imperative to be assigned for an appropri...

The CMS Efficiency Measure: Case Management Strategies for Managing Cost and Length of Stay

As one of the elements of health care reform, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has implemented a course of action aimed at bringing Medicare to a break-even budget.  The elements that we are now familiar with in...

Podiatry and Foot Care

Procedures and services related to the foot are very specific and can be quite confusing because of the medical necessity requirements and restrictions on the conditions that can be treated.  This conference will discuss these regu...

2019 Updates for Coding and Documentation in Psychiatry

Psychiatrists and psychologists who do psychological and neuropsychological testing services will have to implement the new changes in the codes given. The revised CPT codes are mandatory to be implemented in the testing otherwise it wi...

Top HIPAA Data Breaches for 2018: What We Have Learned About Protecting ePHI

Everyone in the healthcare industry knows about HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), that has been in effect since 1996. The goal of the legislation was fairly simple – to safeguard our patient health i...