Webinars

Live webinars are offered monthly and will be available on-demand following each event. Webinar registration and on-demand access is always FREE to CodingIntel members. Non-members may purchase access to live and on-demand webinars (see individual webinar descriptions for details.) Have a suggestion for a webinar topic? Email us using the contact link at the bottom of this page.

CMS Teaching Physician Rules Update | Webinar

Recorded October 22nd, 2020

The teaching physician rules provide payment to an attending physician for services performed jointly by an attending and a resident. CMS updated these rules significantly in 2019 and 2020. This webinar will describe the changes to documenting E/M services and in using notes documented by students. It will also review the rules for minor and major surgical procedures, endoscopy, critical care and psychiatry.

Care management services | Webinar

Recorded June 25, 2020

Physicians are frustrated when they do work, not related to seeing a patient, and don’t get paid for it. And yet, it is vitally important to their patients and families. This webinar will describe three sets of care management services that can be billed by primary care practitioners and specialists.

Telemedicine | Webinar

Recorded July 15th, 2020

The coding and reimbursement rules for telehealth changed fast in March. Congress passed a law relaxing certain telemedicine restrictions during the period of a government state of emergency. This webinar will describe the new telehealth Medicare rules. Join us to learn about CPT coding for telehealth, diagnosis coding, and the type of communication that can be used for telehealth services.

Medical Record Documentation | Webinar

Recorded April 23, 2020

This webinar will review CMS’s changed policy for teaching physician rules and E/M services. Each medical group will need to decide for itself whether to implement these changes, with the understanding that they apply to fee-for-service Medicare only.

On-line digital services and remote monitoring | Webinar

Recorded February 27, 2020

New CPT ® codes for non-face-to-face services include both on-line digital evaluations and remote physiological monitoring. Hold your celebration—the digital E/M codes are not office visits through your portal and have very specific documentation requirements. The webinar will start with a brief overview of Medicare covered telehealth, and then describe these two new sets of codes, with the documentation rules and clinical examples.

ICD-10-CM: Coding and Reporting Guidelines

Recorded January 23, 2020

Electronic health records and on-line ICD-10 look up have made it easy to find a diagnosis code, and quicker than using the index and ICD-10 book. But, is the code accurate and does using it follow the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting in ICD-10, including chapter specific instructions? This hour-long webinar will review the Official Guidelines FY 2020, used for coding outpatient physician services.

Coding inpatient pediatric services | Webinar

Recorded May 23, 2019

Pediatricians and family physicians who care for newborn and older children in an inpatient setting need to select the correct category of code based on the condition of the patient. For newborns, this varies from caring for healthy newborns, to neonates who require inpatient care, intensive care or critical care. It is important to select the codes that reflect the condition of the patient, whether providing 24-hour care or stabilizing and transferring the patient. This webinar will explain the use of these codes, using clinical examples from CPT® Changes: An Insider’s View from 2008, 2009 and 2013.

Analysis of 2018 CERT report: use these findings to educate and audit high risk codes

Recorded April 25, 2019

This webinar will analyze errors for Part B payments and identify the types of services with the highest error rates and the reasons identified in the CERT report. The most common type of error is insufficient documentation, followed by incorrect coding. Some types of procedures, however, were denied for medical necessity.

Coding Hospitalist Services | Webinar

Recorded March 21, 2019

Coding Hospitalist Services will cover selecting the correct category of code for inpatients, observations patients, and patients seen in the ED and sent home. It will review the first CMS frequency data for E/M services and describe the documentation requirements for inpatient and observation services.

Coding Skin Procedures in Dermatology, Family Practice and Urgent Care | Webinar

Recorded February 21, 2019

This webinar will tell coders and practitioners how to document and code biopsies, destruction of benign and malignant lesions, and repairs. It includes specific examples of how to bill for multiple procedures with the correct modifiers, and when to use modifier -51, -59 and -58.

How to Soothe, Smooth and Improve Difficult People | Webinar

Recorded October 25, 2018

What can you do to prevent letting other peoples’ bad days become your bad days? We have the answer! Special guest and customer service expert Susan Keane Baker shares about specific behaviors you can use to reduce the number of difficult encounters in your life.

Denial Management Strategies

Recorded October, 2017

Medical practices can decrease denials and accelerate payments by setting up work processes that use advance functions in their software systems to identify, quantify and categorize denials. The purpose is to identify patterns related to coding, enrollment, prior authorization and specific payer performance. This presentation will focus on using these systems related specifically to ICD-10, but the underlying strategy to understand the causes of denials, and reduce or prevent them in the future is applicable for all denial reasons.