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> CEs FOR EMS BILLING MANAGERS & CERTIFIED AMBULANCE CODERS
This course has been approved by the NAAC credits. In addition, 7.0 Optional EMS CEH awarded. Participants must be present for entire conference for CEHs/CEU’s to be awarded. 
Partial credits will not be awarded.

     > SPEAKER:  DOUG WOLFBERG is a founding member of Page, Wolfberg & Wirth (PWW), and one of the best known EMS attorneys and consultants in the United States. Widely regarded as the nation’s leading EMS law firm, PWW represents private, public and non-profit EMS organizations, as well as billing software manufacturers and others that serve the nation’s ambulance industry.  

   >   CELEBRATING 10 YEARS: This is  our 10th Year presenting the IEMSA Billing and    
  Management Conference, and Doug has agreed to help us celebrate by entertaining us at an
  IEMSA sponsored hospitality suite the night before the conference, April 30.
  Details about location and time will follow by email to attendees closer to the event.

AGENDA:

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM >   Registration (coffee & treats)

8:00 AM - 8:05 AM >   Introduction / Welcome

8:05 AM - 8:55 AM >   Write offs, Reductions & Compliance

It’s a fact of life: some patients quite simply can’t afford to pay their bills. What guidelines or criteria exist to help you make proper financial hardship decisions when patients tell you they can’t pay? How can you implement a compassionate policy that still helps you maximize your revenue? And do the rules change if it’s a facility asking for a write-off? We’ll tackle these tough questions - and more - to help you formulate a specific game plan to deal with these issues in your agency.

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM >   Benchmarking your Billing Operations

How to Determine if You’re On Target  or Off the Mark.What are the best ways to measure the performance of your ambulance billing operations? Gross or net collections percentages? Average revenue per transport? Total revenue? This session will discuss the development of effective and useful metrics for measuring your company’s billing performance, whether you bill in-house or use a billing agency. In addition to looking at financial performance metrics, it is equally important to measure accuracy and compliance, so this session will also address metrics such as coding accuracy, denial rates, appeal and redetermination rates, overpayments, refunds and more. 

—Break (15 minutes)

 10:05 AM - 10:55 AM >   We Screwed Up on Billing - Now What?

How should you respond if you have determined your organization submitted inaccurate or improper claims? What if you determined you had invalid signatures, were lacking PCS forms, a trip didn’t meet medical necessity, or the caregiver on call had a lapsed certification? What if you mistakenly used the wrong HCPCS code or modifier on some claims? What if you interpreted a Medicare rule incorrectly? This session will help you develop an action plan for dealing with the discovery of billing errors and other problems, including sampling and auditing to determine the scope of the problem, disclosure and refund obligations, and other issues that must be addressed when problems arise.

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM  >   Accounts Receivable Management—How well should you be doing?

The performance of your billing office - or your billing vendor -- is critical to the overall success and cash flow of your organization. However, many ambulance services have no idea how to judge the performance of their billing operation, whether it is in-house or outsourced. This session will define critical concepts of payor mix, collection percentages and other important performance indicators to allow you to accurately assess your overall billing performance.

— Lunch (provided) 11:50AM - 1 PM

 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM >   2014 Medicare Billing & Reimbursement Update

The pace of change in Medicare rules, compliance issues and other critical development seems to be dizzying. This session will bring you up-to-date on the absolute latest, must-know reimbursement information that is critical to your bottom line.

 —Break (15 minutes)

 3:15 PM - 4:05 PM  >   Audit Bait : How Ambulance Services Get on Medicare’s Radar 

Sometimes getting audited is random luck-of-the-draw. But other times, ambulance services invite scrutiny and audits through billing practices that place them on the radar screen. This session will look at types of issues that might make you more vulnerable to a Medicare audit or government investigation, and help identify proactive   strategies to reduce the chances of such an action in the future.

 

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IEMSA, 5550 Wild Rose Lane, Ste. 400, West Des Moines, IA 50266

Payment must be received prior to the event
(unless arrangements are made with the IEMSA Office to pay onsite)
 

> REFUNDS or CANCELLATIONS: No refunds after April 15th. All refunds prior to April 15th will be subject to a $50 cancellation fee.

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> A confirmation email will be sent to you after successful completion of your registration. If you do not recieve an email--please contact the IEMSA Office. 

Contact Lisa Arndt at 515-225-8079 or administration@iemsa.net for assistance or more information.