2021 Advanced Specialty Coding, Compliance and Reimbursement Symposium
November 8–10, 2021 | Orlando, FL
Join us November 8–10, 2021, at the Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista—Disney Springs Area, for the specialty-specific training you need at the Advanced Specialty Coding, Compliance, and Reimbursement Symposium for anesthesia, orthopedics, and pain management.
Make sure you’re up to date on the latest coding, billing, and compliance changes, including:
- New 2021 E/M office visit rules
- A look ahead at new, revised, and deleted ICD-10 procedure and diagnosis codes for 2022 and how to navigate them
- Guidance from our experts on how to increase coding compliance and reduce denials
- Insight into documentation and coding fixes that can free up lost revenue in your practice
Learn all you need to know from our expert speakers as they provide you with important information about your medical practice specialty coding. You can expect tips and tools on coding and billing, improved documentation, reduced audit risk, and the most recent hot topics in the field. By attending this symposium, you’ll get all of the following:
- The lowdown on 2022 CPT® codes: Obtain specialty-specific updates and guidance on coding changes that will impact the way you report services and the way your practice is paid.
- Anatomical insights: Take the mystery out of the medical terminology in charts, speed up your coding, and spot documentation errors with detailed anatomical guidance.
- Expert advice: Get answers to your pressing coding and billing questions during each session.
- Tips to overcome the latest coding challenges: Clear up lingering questions about how to report new services or how to stop those denials that continue to clog your claims cycle.
BONUS: All attendees will automatically be registered for a complimentary specialty coding virtual event! This companion virtual event will correspond to the in-person specialty track you’ve attended (anesthesia, orthopedics, or pain management). Attend the in-person event, then relisten and retrain as needed with the virtual event—gather your coding team for it once you’re back in the office, for example. More details to come.
ANESTHESIA: Maximize your coding efficiency and conquer the most perplexing billing, coding, and compliance issues.
ORTHOPEDICS: Solve your most pressing musculoskeletal coding problems from shoulder to toe and gain expert insight and guidance to handle payer policy challenges.
PAIN MANAGEMENT: Use specialty-specific scenarios to improve your knowledge of anatomy and boost your coding prowess.
2021 Advanced Specialty Coding, Compliance and Reimbursement Symposium
Agenda
Preconference — Monday, November 8, 2021
AnesthesiaWhat’s New in 2022: Get Ahead of Coding, Billing, and Compliance Changes 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. 9:10 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. 10:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. 1:40 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. 2:40 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m. |
OrthopedicsWhat’s New in 2022: Get Ahead of Coding, Billing, and Compliance Changes 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. 9:10 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. 10:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. 1:40 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. 2:40 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m. |
Pain ManagementWhat’s New in 2022: Get Ahead of Coding, Billing, and Compliance Changes 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. 9:10 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. 10:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. 1:40 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. 2:40 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m. |
Main Conference, Day 1 — Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Track: Anesthesia7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. 9:10 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. 10:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. 1:40 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. 2:40 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m. 5:10 p.m. |
Track: Orthopedics7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. 9:10 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. 10:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. 1:40 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. 2:40 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m. 5:10 p.m. |
Track: Pain Management7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. 9:10 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. 10:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
2:40 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m. 5:10 p.m. |
Main Conference, Day 2 — Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Track: Anesthesia7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. 9:10 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. 10:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 11:40 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. 12:40 p.m. |
Track: Orthopedics7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. 9:10 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. 10:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 11:40 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. 12:40 p.m. |
Track: Pain Management7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. 9:10 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. 10:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 11:40 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. 12:40 p.m. |
2021 Advanced Specialty Coding, Compliance and Reimbursement Symposium
Speakers
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Melissa Billman is the director of billing services for CE Medical Group. With over 10 years of billing experience, Billman has developed a rare talent to get accounts with extensive account receivables back in order. Clients love her expertise in customer service and effective billing processes. As a team manager, she uses her team’s strengths to efficiently reach goals. Not only can she get a client’s billing into shape, but she can also assist with management consulting and auditing services. Billman speaks nationally, educating providers and billers about billing and coding compliance. |
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Doris V. Branker, CHC, CPC, CIRCC, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CEMC, is a multispecialty coding, reimbursement, practice management, and compliance consultant. She is principal consultant and owner of DB Healthcare Consulting & Education. Her 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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Kimberly Ross Clayson is the managing attorney and chief of operations at Maxwell Dunn, PLC, a boutique law firm that serves small businesses and entrepreneurs, including healthcare businesses and physician practices. Kim has been practicing law for 15 years working on the business aspects of healthcare businesses and physician practices and collaborating with Vicki Myckowiak on healthcare compliance issues. She graduated from University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and with a book award for legal research and writing. Kim is an adjunct professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and has written on a variety of legal subjects for the Michigan Institute of Continuing Legal Education. |
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Daniel J. Crane, MBA, is the president for CE Medical Group. Crane's specialties are strategic planning and development for physician groups. He has been a faculty instructor for numerous national pain society conferences, including SPPM and ASIPP. His expertise in business management, marketing strategies, and practice expansion are why his team has managed over $350 million in revenue for private practices. Crane’s greatest professional joys are watching practices grow through the business strategies CE Medical Group implements and helping clients achieve financial success. |
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Kelly Dennis, MBA, ACS-AN, CANPC, CHCA, CPC, CPC-I, has over 37 years of experience in anesthesia coding and billing and speaks about anesthesia issues nationally. She is a certified coder and instructor with special qualifications in anesthesia and served as lead advisor for the anesthesia Board of Medical Specialty Coding. She has owned her own consulting company, Perfect Office Solutions, Inc., since November 2001. Dennis is a certified healthcare auditor and is currently studying for AAPC’s Certified Professional Medical Auditor (CPMA) examination. |
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Marcy Garuccio, ACS-AN, CANPC, CPMA, CPC, has a career that spans more than three decades and is built on a strong anesthesia foundation. She uses her years of experience in both the clinical and consulting arenas to explain the complexities of coding, billing, documentation, and compliance regulations such as HIPAA to clinicians and coders. Her medical consulting company provides a full suite of services, with a concentration in auditing and quality, and extends to practice management review and office policy creation. She has written articles for AAPC and has presented webinars for AAPC and DecisionHealth. She also is a speaker for DecisionHealth’s annual conferences. |
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Jillian Harrington, MHA, CPC, CPC-I, CPC-P, CCS, CCS-P, CEMC, MHP, is a regulatory specialist for HCPro. She serves as an instructor for the Certified Coder Boot Camp®—Original (live and online), the Certified Coder Boot Camp®—Inpatient Version, the Medicare Boot Camp®—Hospital Version, and the Medicare Boot Camp®—Physician Services Version. She also co-developed the Codercise® CPT Operative Report. Dr. Harrington has more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare profession. She is an approved instructor of the Professional Medical Coding Curriculum, awarded by the AAPC, and teaches coding for physician and hospital services, as well as healthcare administration. She has spoken frequently on healthcare compliance and HIM issues at regional and national professional conferences. She holds a doctorate in leadership from Creighton University. |
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Alison Kuley, CPC, has been a Certified Professional Coder for more than a decade and is a noted expert in the field of spine coding. A member of the North American Spine Society Coding Committee, she is a regular speaker at conferences around the country. Kuley is currently on staff at National Medical Billing Services, where she works closely with her clients to make sure they understand what is needed to code cases accurately. Prior to that, she managed the revenue cycle staff at Litchfield Hills (Connecticut) Orthopedics. With her extensive experience, Kuley is an expert in process, procedures, and reimbursement methodologies for the complex and ever-changing specialty of orthopedics and spine. |
Julia Kyles, CPC, joined the DecisionHealth editorial team in 2000. In that time she has written a wide range of articles and books for DecisionHealth 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, Julia joined the AAPC and received her CPC certification in 2015. | |
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Pamela Linton, CPC, CANPC, has been in the coding profession since 1980 and has worked exclusively in anesthesia and pain management for the past 23 years. She is the corporate coding manager for the anesthesia and pain management division in the compliance department of Zotec Partners, a national revenue cycle management company. Much of Linton’s work is centered on training. She gives new clients feedback on how they can improve their documentation, creates education materials for coders and physicians, provides in-person training to physicians, and responds to questions from coders, managers, and providers on a daily basis. |
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Amy Turner, RN, BSN, MMHC, CPC, CHC, CHIAP, has a widespread background in clinical operations, revenue cycle, internal audits, risk management, and healthcare administration. Turner has 21 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. She is responsible for proposing, budgeting, staffing, leading, and conducting various consulting engagements covering a wide spectrum of healthcare-related needs. |
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Margie Scalley Vaught, CPC, COC, CPC-I, CCS-P, MCS-P, ACS-EM, ACS-OR, has more than 30 years of experience in the healthcare arena, including more than 20 years in orthopedic coding, billing, and reimbursement. Vaught frequently performs internal audits, provides education and training to physicians and office staff, and helps clinics establish billing and compliance policies. She is an advisor on orthopedic coding to the Board of Medical Specialty Coding & Compliance, and she helped develop the Advanced Orthopedic Coding credentialing exam. Vaught has contributed many articles to the AAOS Bulletin, and she serves as technical advisor to the DecisionHealth publications Medical Practice Coding Pro and the Orthopedic Coder’s Pink Sheet. |
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Michael G. Warshaw, DPM, CPC, is a practicing podiatrist and certified medical coder who speaks nationwide on foot and ankle coding as well as durable medical equipment coding and compliance, among other topics. Dr. Warshaw is the author of numerous articles as well as the 2020 Podiatry Manual, published by the American College of Podiatric Medicine. In addition, he specializes in forensic medical coding and has served as an auditor and expert witness in civil and criminal healthcare cases across the U.S. |
2021 Advanced Specialty Coding, Compliance and Reimbursement Symposium
Location
Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista—Disney Springs Area
1751 Hotel Plaza Boulevard
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
- Room rate: $199/night*
- Hotel cut-off date: Monday, October 18, 2021. Hotel rooms may sell out earlier than the cut-off date, so book early!
- Toll-free reservation center: 800-782-4414 (reference the DecisionHealth Advanced Specialty Coding Symposium room block and group code DEH)
- Reservations URL: https://book.passkey.com/e/50164835
- Hotel website: https://www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/florida/hilton-orlando-lake-buena-vista-disney-springs-area-ORLDWHH/index.html
There is a similarly named hotel in the vicinity of the Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista—Disney Springs Area, so please be sure to use the above information for directions to the venue.
*In addition to the room rate, the hotel is offering an OPTIONAL $20.00 daily resort fee that includes the following amenities:
- High-speed guest room internet access
- Unlimited movie rentals from DVDNow
- Disney bus transportation—daily to Disney Theme Parks (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Typhoon Lagoon, and Blizzard Beach) and nightly to Disney Springs (beginning at 7 p.m.)
- Two 16-oz Starbucks coffees or two 16.9-oz bottles of water
- Local, toll-free, domestic, and credit card calls (no access fee)
- Complimentary access to the 24-hour on-site fitness center
Simplify Compliance/DecisionHealth has no affiliation with any third-party companies or travel assistance providers. Rooms should be booked directly with the event hotel using the official information provided on the website and in the brochure.
2021 Advanced Specialty Coding, Compliance and Reimbursement Symposium
Pricing
PreCon + Main Con (kit): $1,490.00
PreCon + Main Con (kit) Early Bird: $1,290.00 — Early bird cut-off August 17, 2021
Main Conference
Retail Price: $1,095.00
Early Bird Price: $995.00 — Early bird cut-off August 17, 2021
Pre-Conference
Retail Price: $595
Early Bird Price: $495.00 — Early bird cut-off August 17, 2021
2021 Advanced Specialty Coding, Compliance and Reimbursement Symposium
COVID Safety
Simplify Compliance places the highest priority on the safety of our guests. We will follow safety guidelines and advisements for meetings as outlined by the CDC and the WHO, as well as state and local mandates. In preparation for attendance at our events, we want to share the following measures to promote health and well-being:
- All hotel guests are required to wear a mask while in public areas of the hotel and anywhere that social distancing measures cannot be met
- Meeting rooms will be set up to comply with CDC, WHO, and applicable locally recommended social distancing guidelines
- Food service will follow the safety guidelines implemented by the hotel
To view all the safety measures that the Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista has implemented, please see the information listed on their website: https://www.hilton.com/en/corporate/cleanstay/
Simplify Compliance will continue to monitor the COVID-19 environment and the recommended guidelines, and we will communicate any adjustments to the on-site policies and procedures as we approach the live event date.