Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Pain Management
November 27–29, 2023
Get the Latest Guidance for Accurate Pain Management Coding, Billing & Compliance
The 2023 Pain Management Virtual Summit is the can’t-miss event of the year for pain management coders.
Join the nation’s top coding trainers November 27 – 29, 2023, and learn about the latest challenges to facet joint interventions, potential updates to urine drug tests and the 2024 CPT® code changes that will affect pain management. You’ll also receive specialty-specific tips and tools to improve coding, billing and documentation.
In 2023, we’re bringing the Advanced Specialty Coding, Compliance and Reimbursement Symposium to YOU! We are redefining our specialty coding education—and we can’t wait to share it with you.
Here’s just a sampling of what we have in store for you in 2023:
- 2024 CPT and ICD-10 coding and guidance update so your practice is prepared ahead of the implementation dates.
- Expert guidance on how to properly code for common pain management procedures and services, including facet joint interventions, pain blocks, urine drug testing, and more!
- Practical answers to your E/M coding challenges to ensure compliance.
- Insight into documentation and coding fixes, including identifying missing information on your neurostimulator claims.
- Tips to overcome the latest coding challenges, including how to take control of private payers that don’t meet their obligations.
- Expert advice: Get answers to your pressing coding, billing, and compliance questions during the Q&A sessions each day.
- Get your entire team trained without sacrificing productivity and without spending thousands of dollars.
- Reduced expenses. No travel time and no travel costs—participate from the comfort of your own happy place!
- Great networking opportunities and more engaging sessions—ask questions, get clarification, and be part of the conversation.
- Access to the on-demand recording for 60 days after live event so that you can relisten and browse content at your own pace.
- Extra! Add-on a specialty – Anesthesia, Orthopedics, and/or Billing & Compliance Virtual Summit – and attend sessions from multiple tracks spanned over time.
At DecisionHealth, we are committed to delivering you the highest standard of training excellence, provided by nationally recognized industry experts, in an interactive virtual environment that promises more value and flexibility at an extremely affordable price.
Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Pain Management
Agenda
*All Times are Eastern
Main Conference Day 1 — Monday, November 27, 2023
12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Fast Facet Facts—Avoid the Latest Audit Traps and Meet the Prior Auth Requirements
Amy Turner, RN, BSN, MMHC, CPC, CHC, CHIAP
Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC) released a uniform local coverage determination for facet joint interventions in 2021 and audits based on the new policy have already started. In a March audit report, the HHS Office of Inspector General announced that providers received $30 million in overpayments in a three-month period. In addition, Medicare added facet joint interventions to the prior authorization list for procedures performed in the outpatient setting. In this session, learn how to shore up documentation and smooth out the prior authorization process to protect facet joint intervention revenue.
12:55 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.
2024 Update: Prepare for the Coding Changes That Will Impact Your Practice
Julia Kyles, CPC
A new year, a new round of coding updates—and for practices that aren’t prepared, a new round of underpayments and denials. Don’t let it happen to your practice. Get an overview of the relevant procedure code updates that will go into effect Jan. 1, 2024, and cover changes to ICD-10-CM guidelines for fiscal year 2024. Bonus: Get up to date on the COVID-19 public health emergency waivers that were extended past May 11.
1:40 p.m. – 1:55 p.m.
Networking Break
1:55 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Peripheral or Unlisted? Here’s How to Find the Answer
Doris V. Branker, CHC, CPC, CIRCC, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CEMC
When the documentation for a pain block doesn’t match up with a specific code, how do you know whether you should report 64450 (Injection[s], anesthetic agent[s] and/or steroid; other peripheral nerve or branch) or 64999 (Unlisted procedure, nervous system)? Learn the difference between the two codes and how to use the chart to track down the correct code so that you receive the appropriate revenue. Also discover the additional information you’ll need to report when the answer is Unlisted.
2:50 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Q&A Session With the Speakers
Amy Turner, RN, BSN, MMHC, CPC, CHC, CHIAP
Julia Kyles, CPC
Doris V. Branker, CHC, CPC, CIRCC, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CEMC
Bring your most pressing and challenging questions and our expert speakers will answer them during this session. BONUS: Have a tough scenario or complicated question you’ve been struggling with? Submit your scenario and/or question ahead of time to Julia Kyles at JKyles@decisionhealth.com.
3:15 p.m.
Day 1 Concludes
Main Conference Day 2 — Tuesday, November 28, 2023
12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Who’s the Boss? Take Control of Private Payers That Don’t Meet Their Obligations
Doris V. Branker, CHC, CPC, CIRCC, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CEMC
Your practice struggles to meet all the obligations in its private payer contracts, but getting a private payer to hold up its end of the contract can seem like an impossible task. But you aren’t doomed to slow claims processing, ignored deadlines, and missed payments. Work through real-world examples that show you how to create an effective internal escalation process, make the contract work for your practice, and receive the revenue you’re due.
12:55 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.
Diagnosis Coding for Pain Management: Get It Right and Get Paid
Jessyka Burke, BSHA, CPC, COSC, CASCC
Diagnosis coding is a team effort. The treating practitioner must accurately document the patient’s condition and the coder must accurately use the ICD-10-CM guidelines to translate that documentation into the correct diagnosis code—or codes—for the encounter. Work through real-world scenarios that illustrate how detailed diagnosis documentation and coding connects directly to the services that a practice can report. Get specialty-specific guidance that shows you how to quickly make your way through the thousands of codes that are associated with pain management services so you can file accurate claims and receive the revenue you’re due.
1:40 p.m. – 1:55 p.m
Networking Break
1:55 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Find the Missing Connections for Your Spinal Neurostimulator Claims
Amy Turner, RN, BSN, MMHC, CPC, CHC, CHIAP
What’s missing from your neurostimulator claims? The HHS Office of Inspector General found that pain management doctors frequently failed to document essential portions of the service and an update to spinal neurostimulator codes is due next year. Learn how to detect and correct the documentation and coding errors for implants, revisions, replacements, and removals that trigger denials and overpayment demands. Bonus: Get a first look at spinal neurostimulator codes that will go into effect Jan. 1, 2024.
2:50 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Q&A Session With the Speakers
Doris V. Branker, CHC, CPC, CIRCC, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CEMC
Jessyka Burke, BSHA, CPC, COSC, CASCC
Amy Turner, RN, BSN, MMHC, CPC, CHC, CHIAP
Bring your most pressing and challenging questions and our expert speakers will answer them during this session.
Submit your scenario and/or question ahead of time to Julia Kyles at JKyles@decisionhealth.com.
3:25 p.m. – 3:55 p.m.
Cocktail/Favorite Beverage Virtual Reception
Julia Kyles, CPC (Moderator)
Bring your drink and your biggest issue with a carrier/payer, and let’s spill the tea!
3:55 p.m.
Day 2 Concludes
Main Conference Day 3 — Wednesday, November 29, 2023
12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Practical Answers to Your E/M Coding Riddles
Doris V. Branker, CHC, CPC, CIRCC, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CEMC
E/M guidelines keep changing and coders are struggling to keep up. Not only has the AMA updated E/M guidelines in the CPT manual, but it has also issued off-schedule updates. Stop puzzling over the tricky parts of E/M coding and get you caught up with the latest E/M guidance while getting straight-forward solutions to tough E/M problems so you’ll have time to prepare for the next round of changes.
12:55 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.
HIPAA Compliance: Craft Policies for Each Department in Your Pain Clinic
Mardelle Klaus, RHIA, CCS, CPC, CHC, CHIAP
HIPAA privacy and security compliance is not one size fits all. Not only do different provider types face different risks, but departments within the same practice have different risks. A practice that doesn’t understand how to customize its compliance efforts will waste time and money and might increase its risk exposure. Learn how HIPAA’s privacy and security rules can impact a practice’s employees in their respective departments. Take a deep dive into how these rules impact administration, clinical, registration and scheduling, patient financial services, and billing and coding departments differently. You’ll leave this session with best practices to follow for each department in your practice.
1:40 p.m. – 1:55 p.m.
Networking Break
1:55 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Testing, Testing! Make Sure You Meet the Requirements for Urine Drug Testing
Amy Turner, RN, BSN, MMHC, CPC, CHC, CHIAP
Urine drug testing is an essential part of chronic opioid therapy. Unfortunately, the test is the target of intense scrutiny by auditors and investigators, and there have been non-stop updates to the codes and guidelines. Get detailed explanations of the documentation and coding principles that will protect your practice from denials and failed audits while continuing to provide your patients with the best care possible.
2:50 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Q&A Session ith the Speakers
Doris V. Branker, CHC, CPC, CIRCC, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CEMC
Mardelle Klaus, RHIA, CCS, CPC, CHC, CHIAP
Amy Turner, RN, BSN, MMHC, CPC, CHC, CHIAP
Bring your most pressing and challenging questions and our expert speakers will answer them during this session.
Submit your scenario and/or question ahead of time to Julia Kyles at JKyles@decisionhealth.com.
3:15 p.m.
Conference Concludes
— Agenda subject to change —
Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Pain Management
Speakers
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Doris V. Branker, CHC, CPC, CIRCC, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CEMC, is principal consultant and owner of DB Healthcare Consulting & Education. She is a multispecialty coding, reimbursement, practice management, and compliance consultant. Branker’s specialty areas include evaluation and management, anesthesia, pain management, critical care medicine, interventional radiology, and cardiology. She shares free educational content in her specialty areas on her YouTube page Doris Thecoder. |
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Jessyka Burke, BSHA, CPC, COSC, CASCC, is a coding and billing specialist at Cascade Orthopaedics’ MultiCare Cascade Surgical Center in Auburn, Washington. With 26 years of experience in the business of healthcare reimbursement, Burke worked her way up from being a receptionist at an orthopedic clinic to serving as lead coding and billing specialist/physician and staff educator for a private orthopedic surgery practice. She is also a coding consultant and education assistant for the Ozark Coding Alliance and billing consultant for Rehab PhysioWorks in Kent, Washington. With coding and billing experience in both hospital facilities and physician private practice settings, Burke has experience coding not only orthopedics but also pain management, PM&R, ASC facilities, PT, OT, massage therapy, podiatry, and ENT, among other specialties. She is currently working toward a master’s degree in public health communications and leadership. |
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Mardelle Klaus, RHIA, CHC, CCS, CPC, CHIA, healthcare consultant, brings years of experience in both her field work in clinics and hospitals as well as a health care consultant. Her strengths are in preservice patient access operations and post-service coding, billing, and claim adjudication processes. She has successfully assisted clients in defending against fraud accusations by investigating their revenue cycle and compliance operations. Klaus has also conducted retrospective payment audits on behalf of healthcare organizations and payers. Her work in the field and insight into the impact audits, coupled with her compliance knowledge and experience, give her a unique skill set to objectively assist both sides of the industry. |
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Julia Kyles, CPC, is a content specialist at DecisionHealth in Brentwood, Tennessee. Since joining the DecisionHealth editorial team in 2000, she has written a wide range of articles and books including the Anesthesia & Pain Coder’s Pink Sheet and Pain Management Coding Answers. She also develops the agendas for the annual anesthesia and pain management conferences. To improve her coding knowledge and better understand her readers, Kyles joined the AAPC and received her CPC certification in 2015. |
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Amy Turner, RN, BSN, MMHC, CPC, CHC, CHIAP, is the director of advisory solutions for Ventra Health. She is responsible for proposing, budgeting, staffing, leading, and conducting various consulting engagements covering a wide spectrum of healthcare-related needs. Turner has a widespread background in clinical operations, revenue cycle, internal audits, risk management, and healthcare administration. She has 22 years of pain management experience and uses her unique blend of clinical training, coding education, and revenue cycle knowledge with an overlay of regulatory compliance expertise to offer insights that speak to both clinicians and executives. Turner’s experience includes working in large and small private practices, at academic facilities, and with hospital-based physicians. |
Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Pain Management
Location
At DecisionHealth, we are committed to delivering you the highest standard of training excellence, provided by nationally recognized industry experts, in an interactive virtual environment that promises more value and flexibility at an extremely affordable price.
We aim to provide you with:
- More flexibility to attend sessions from multiple tracks spanned over time, and the ability to browse content at your own pace.
- Opportunity to get your entire team trained without sacrificing productivity and without spending thousands of dollars.
- Reduced expenses. No travel time and no travel costs – participate from the comfort of your own happy place!
- Great networking opportunities and more engaging sessions – ask questions, get clarification and be part of the conversation.
We look forward to seeing you virtually!
Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Pain Management
Pricing
Group pricing is as follows:
- 2-10 attendees = each attendee receives 10% discount off retail price
- 11-15 attendees = each attendee receives 15% discount off retail price
- 16-20 attendees = each attendee receives 20% discount off retail price
- 21 or more attendees = each attendees receive 25% discount off retail price
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Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Pain Management
Continuing Education
AAPC
This program has the prior approval of AAPC for 8 continuing education hours. Granting of prior approval in no way constitutes endorsement by AAPC of the program content or the program sponsor.
AHIMA
This program has been approved for 8 continuing education unit(s) (CEUs) for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Granting of Approved CEUs from AHIMA does not constitute endorsement of the program content or its program provider.
BMSC
This program is preapproved by the Board of Medical Specialty Coding & Compliance (BMSC) for 7 CEUs towards the maintenance of the ACS, SCP and CCP-P credentials.
Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Pain Management
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