Coding Seminars at Optometry's Meeting®

Cracking The Code: The Myths, Mysteries, and Essentials of Medical Eye Care Coding, Part 1 & 2

Lecturer(s): C. Brownlow, O.D., J. Rumpakis, O.D., MBA

Function 3001 (Part 1): Saturday, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Function 3114 (Part 2): Saturday, 2:00pm - 4:00pm

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Category: GO

OD and Paraoptometric Joint Course
The average optometrist and paraoptometric do not have a complete understanding of the medical model for health care delivery, coding, billing, and reimbursement, nor do they understand the appropriate assignment of value of the services they are licensed to provide and be reimbursed under the Resource-Based Relative Value System (RBRVS) that all third-party insurers currently use as the standard, and thus often feel that the medical model is a losing proposition. With this current lack of understanding regarding the medical model for health care delivery, and the ever-changing rules and guidelines surrounding coding, billing, and reimbursement, many practices feel that there is not enough profit or earnings potential in providing primary care to justify their attention.

Through an innovative approach, this course will present actual clinical cases and provide specific coding, billing, and compliance tools to help attendees maximize revenue while maintaining compliance to avoid costly audit situations. Real-time Internet-based software tools will be presented to allow you to understand reimbursement differences between carriers, understand your geographic compliance regulations, and the correct coding edits specific to clinical care you perform every day.

Capture every dollar you are entitled to by understanding, through clinical case examples, the new Medicare rules and regulations, and the "ins and outs" of third-party coding, billing, reimbursement issues, and the true profitability of medical eye care. You will learn how to both clinically and financially manage the top clinical medical presentations.

Paraoptometrics should register for P335 (Part 1) and P360 (Part 2).