If your organization receives Medicare reimbursement for outpatient services, get a comprehensive review of all the new changes that were effective January 1 of this year for outpatient coding and reimbursement.
Get details on major changes for 2007. For instance, the CMS final outpatient propsective payment system (OPPS) rule addresses concerns about payments for emergency room services, and will implement new steps to make payments more accurate and to promote higher quality and value in outpatient care.The final rule affects outpatient services furnished by general acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, inpatient psychiatric facilities, long-term acute care hospitals, children’s hospitals, and cancer hospitals. Although CMS projects that the changes will result in an average increase of 3% in Medicare payments for outpatient services over 2006, there are substantal payment decreases in certain areas.
Join Healthcare Reimbursement Monitor and the reimbursement experts of BESLER Consulting, a leading advisory firm in healthcare financial management and operations, to get a better understanding of the new Medicare coding and reimbursement changes for OPPS and how it will impact your organization. This live 90-minute audio conference happened on December 7, 2006.
The CMS has laid out almost 500 changes that will affect the codes hard coded in the chargemaster for 2007, including 70 deleted codes and over 100 new codes that need to be reviewed. The payment reforms also include provisions expanding quality reporting requirements for hospital inpatient services.
Listen in to this program with your staff members for a comprehensive review of the Medicare FY 2007 Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule changes and hear how it will affect your organization. All areas discussed will focus on both coding and reimbursement impacts.
Agenda:
- The new 2007 Medicare code deletions, additions, and changes including:
- Big changes to radiology codes
- Infusion therapy changes again, the 3rd time in 3 years
- Respiratory care code changes
- The reimbursement impact of the changes
- The Q Status Indicator and how to use it with the new codes assigned to it
- The new changes in payment for pharmacy as status indicator
- Outline of the new quality reporting requirements
- Review of per diem reductions for partial hospitalization services
- Drug, biological and radiopharmaceutical reimbursement for 2007
- Payments for emergency room services... find out what was finalized
Who Will Benefit From This Audio Conference?
CEOs, COOs, CFOs, vice president of finance, director of
reimbursement,
patient financial services, chargemaster coordinators, coding
supervisors,
revenue cycle coordinators, financial planners, health information
management,
vice president of operations, strategic and implementation consultants,
operations executives, executive directors, team leaders, planners,
product
managers, knowledge managers, department heads, medical directors,
director of
managed care, director of contracting, network development and provider
services directors, strategic planners, healthcare management, TPAs,
network
managers, company executives, medical management directors, analysts,
account
services and administration executives.
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