- Skin lesion procedures including injection, biopsy, shave and excision. Understand the neoplasm diagnosis codes.
- Adjacent tissue transfers
- Flaps and grafts
- Wound care and debridements
- Burn care
- Skin replacement surgery including skin substitutes and biologic implants
- NEW! Use of the pressure ulcer codes
- Body contouring: panniculectomy vs. abdominoplasty – what to bill insurance vs. what is cosmetic
- Nasal procedures – rhinoplasty, nasal valve stenosis repair, turbinates
- EXPANDED! Facial fractures
- Hand surgery – with and without vascular and nerve repairs, collagenase injections for Dupuytren’s contracture
- Breast reconstruction – extensive coverage including DIEP flaps
- Microsurgery and use of the operating microscope
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- Medicare’s e-Prescribing and Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) requirements and how your payments are affected
- Minimizing your risk of an audit: RAC, CERT, ZPIC, OIG
- Using modifiers to optimize revenue – 51 vs. 59, multiple procedures in a global period, co-surgeon vs. assistant surgeon
- E&M coding – don’t think this isn’t important because you are a surgical practice. Payers are auditing E&M even more in 2013. What it takes to bill a level 4 or 5, when to use the consultation codes (Medicare vs. CPT guidelines)
- Risks and rewards of an EMR
- The Science of Reimbursement: 5 common revenue mistakes made by plastic surgery practices and how to correct them
- Billing for non-physician providers – when you can bill “incident to” the physician and when you must bill “direct”
- ICD-10-CM is coming – understand the difference between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM and what you can do now to prepare
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ASPS Plastic Surgery Coding Workshop, Atlanta