Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Pain Management

November 12-14, 2024

Prepare your pain management practice for 2025 with the billing, coding, and compliance guidance you need in the coming year.

Here’s what we have in store for you in 2024:

• Get a 2025 coding & regulatory update.
• Receive specialty-specific anatomy know-how to code your pain management practice’s services quickly and accurately.
• Learn how to select the correct code when providers treat chronic pain with more complex, high-dollar treatments such as neurostimulators, augmentation, fusion, and decompression.
• Identify and stop documentation flaws when coding facets & epidurals.
• Eliminate lingering office/outpatient E/M coding challenges, and stop making costly mistakes.
• Learn how to detect and overcome the greatest risks to your trigger point injection revenue.
• Improve your problem-solving skills and learn how to tackle problems that create massive debt, cut revenue, and/or trigger compliance problems.
• Connect the dots between chronic opioid therapy and behavioral health.
• Coordinated Care: Make sure your practice is ready and able to provide top-notch care when an orthopedic surgeon needs your providers’ expertise.
• Expert advice: Get answers to your pressing coding, billing, and compliance questions during the Q&A sessions each day.
• Get your entire team trained without sacrificing productivity and without spending thousands of dollars.
• Reduced expenses. No travel time and no travel costs – participate from the comfort of your own happy place!
• Great networking opportunities and more engaging sessions – ask questions, get clarification, and be part of the conversation.
• Access to the on-demand recording for 60 days after the live event so that you can relisten and browse content at your own pace.
• Extra! Add on a specialty – Anesthesia, Orthopedics, and/or Billing & Compliance – and attend sessions from multiple tracks spanned.

At DecisionHealth, we are committed to delivering you the highest standard of training excellence, provided by nationally recognized industry experts, in an interactive virtual environment that promises more value and flexibility at an extremely affordable price.

Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Pain Management

Agenda

*All times are Eastern.

Day 1 — Tuesday, November 12, 2024

11:55 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Introductory remarks
Moderator

12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Anatomy for Pain Management Coders: Use Anatomy To Decode Documentation
Amy Turner, RN, BSN, MMHC, CPC, CHC, CHIAP
Get the specialty-specific anatomy know-how you need to code your pain management practice’s services quickly and accurately. Learn to decode operative notes with ease and select the correct procedure and diagnosis code for your practice’s claims. Learn how to spot charts that are missing crucial anatomical information. That way you can work with providers to improve their documentation and make sure their claims and payments are backed by documentation that supports medical necessity.

12:55 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.
Beyond The Block: Improve Coding For Neurostimulators, Vertebral Augmentation, Decompression & More
Amy Turner, RN, BSN, MMHC, CPC, CHC, CHIAP
Select the correct code when providers treat chronic pain with more complex, high-dollar treatments such as neurostimulators, augmentation, fusion> (add comma) and decompression to treat chronic pain. You may not perform these services as frequently as pain blocks, but just one denial can cost thousands of dollars. Learn to select the correct code and submit clean claims for a variety of complex pain treatments.

1:40 p.m. – 1:55 p.m.
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1:55 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Face The Facets & Endure with Epidurals: Identify and Stop Documentation Flaws
Amy Turner, RN, BSN, MMHC, CPC, CHC, CHIAP
Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) rolled out uniform policies in 2021 for facet joint interventions (64490-64495 and 64633-64636) and epidural steroid injections (62320-62327 and 64479-64484). The policies demand meticulous documentation, but three years later, providers still aren’t supporting the medical necessity for their services. This session will guide you through the areas where provider documentation falls short and give you tips for making sure your team produces charts that will stand up to an audit.

Bonus: MACs revisited their uniform facet joint intervention LCD in 2024. Discover the status of the latest updates during this session.

2:50 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.
Live Q&A with the Speaker
Amy Turner, RN, BSN, MMHC, CPC, CHC, CHIAP
Bring your questions to this live Q&A session. BONUS: Have a tough scenario or complicated question you’ve been struggling with, and submit your scenario and/or question ahead of time. Submit to Julia Kyles at Julia.Kyles@decisionhealth.com by October 11, 2024.

Day 2 — Wednesday, November 13, 2024

11:55 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Introductory remarks
Moderator

12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Eliminate Lingering Office/Outpatient E/M Coding Pain
Doris Branker, CHC, CPC, CIRCC, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CEMC
The rollout of the new coding guidelines to report office/other outpatient E/M visits (99202-99215) wasn’t a one-and-done deal. Get specialty-specific training that shows you exactly where pain practices continue to make costly mistakes and provide tips for eliminating those pain points from your practice. The CPT editorial panel has continued to issue clarifications and updates for the codes that net pain management practices billions of dollars a year. In addition, practices had to rely on Medicare and private payers to create and explain documentation rules for the new guidelines.

12:55 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.
Coding & Regulatory Update: Look Back At 2024, Prepare For 2025
Julia Kyles, CPC
A new year will bring a new round of coding updates and rules. Practices that aren’t prepared will see a new flood of improper payments and denials. Don’t let it happen to your practice. During this session you’ll discover the relevant coding updates that will go into effect Jan. 1, 2025, learn about new regulatory changes that are in the works and review some changes that went into effect this year, such as payment for the office visit complexity code (G2211).

1:40 p.m. – 1:55 p.m.
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1:55 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Think Like A Detective, Protect Your Pain Management Practice
Marcy Garuccio, ACS-AN, CANPC, CPMA, CPC, SME, AAPC Fellow
Improve your problem-solving skills, learn how to follow the clues and solve your practice’s toughest problems. During this session a veteran pain management and anesthesia consultant will use three case studies to show you how she helped pain management practices tackle problems that created massive debt, cut revenue, or triggered compliance problems. For example, you’ll find out how a practice got back on track after it switched to a new pain pump drug and wound up with a $70,000 debt from treating one patient. At the end of this session, you’ll know how a consultant approaches client problems and be able to apply her methods to protect your practice.

2:50 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.
Live Q&A with the Speakers
Doris Banker, CHC, CPC, CIRCC, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CEMC
Marcy Garuccio, ACS-AN, CANPC, CPMA, CPC, SME, AAPC Fellow
Bring your questions to this live Q&A session. BONUS: Have a tough scenario or complicated question you’ve been struggling with, submit your scenario and/or question ahead of time. Submit to Julia Kyles at Julia.Kyles@decisionhealth.com by October 11, 2024.

Day 3 — Thursday, November 14, 2024

11:55 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Introductory remarks
Moderator

12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Make Your Point. Follow The Tougher Trigger Point Injection Policies
Jessyka Burke, BSHA, CPC, COSC, CASCC
Learn how to detect and overcome the greatest risks to your trigger point injection revenue. Practices in at least 38 states must follow a tough new uniform local coverage determination that restricts the number of treatments and covered conditions. Practices that aren’t affected by the new LCD aren’t safe. Tougher private payer policies and overpayment demands also threaten their revenue. This session will give you the information and guidance you need to meet these challenges.

12:55 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.
Connect The Dots Between Chronic Opioid Therapy And Behavioral Health
Amy Pritchett, CCS, CPC-I, CPMA, CDEO, CASCC, CANPC, CRC, CDEC, CMPM, C-AHI
Behavioral health is a key component of chronic opioid therapy, but pain management providers often leave gaps in their documentation and treatment that can expose practices to lost revenue and negative audits. Delve into the behavioral health arena and work through opioid management, risk assessments, delivery and scoring of the PHQ-9 (depression) questionnaire, and medical necessity for urine drug tests. This session will also cover the local coverage determination data elements you must comply with when your patients are on opioid therapy for chronic pain.

1:40 p.m. – 1:55 p.m.
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1:55 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Coordinated Care: Work with Orthopedists When Patients Need Chronic Pain Management Care
Jessyka Burke, BSHA, CPC, COSC, CASCC
Make sure your practice is ready and able to provide top-notch care when an orthopedic surgeon needs your provider’s expertise. Learn how to work with an orthopedist’s office to get your providers the information they need before the consult. Get tips to share with your providers so they create reports that the orthopedist can understand and use without the need for multiple follow-up conversations.

2:50 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.
Live Q&A with the Speakers
Jessyka Burke, BSHA, CPC, COSC, CASCC
Amy Pritchett, CCS, CPC-I, CPMA, CDEO, CASCC, CANPC, CRC, CDEC, CMPM, C-AHI
Bring your questions to this live Q&A session. BONUS: Have a tough scenario or complicated question you’ve been struggling with, and submit your scenario and/or question ahead of time. Submit to Julia Kyles at Julia.Kyles@decisionhealth.com by October 11, 2024.

— Agenda subject to change —

Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Pain Management

Speakers

	Doris V. Branker, CHC, CPC, CIRCC, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CEMC, is principal consultant of DB Healthcare Consulting & Education. She is a multispecialty coding, reimbursement, practice management, and compliance consultant with specialty areas including evaluation and management, anesthesia, pain management, critical care medicine, interventional radiology, and cardiology. She is a consultant for the American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) and shares free educational content in her specialty areas on her YouTube page "Doris The Coder."
	Jessyka Burke, BSHA, CPC, COSC, CASCC, is a coding and billing specialist at Cascade Orthopaedics’ MultiCare Cascade Surgical Center in Auburn, Washington. Burke has 28 years of experience in the business of healthcare reimbursement. She worked her way up from a receptionist’s position at an orthopedic clinic to serving as the lead coding and billing specialist and physician and staff educator for a private orthopedic surgery practice. She is also a subject matter expert for the AAPC, ASCA, Healthcare Inspired LLC, and many others. Burke has experience coding and billing for a wide range of specialties, including orthopedics, pain management, PM&R, ASC facilities, PT, OT, and podiatry.
	Marcy Garuccio, ACS-AN, CANPC, CPMA, CPC, SME, AAPC Fellow, is a senior consultant at, RMA. Garuccio has a career that spans more than 30 years. She was the president of Health Care Billing Associates for 20 years. The organization began as a medical billing service for anesthesia practices and grew to include other physician and surgical specialties. Garuccio is currently a senior consultant for RMA, a billing agency that offers consultation, coding, auditing, documentation compliance and revenue cycle review and recommendations for anesthesia and pain management services. She has conducted webinars and live presentations for DecisionHealth, recently authored a course offered by Libman Education titled “Essentials of Anesthesiology Coding and Billing” and presents for various AAPC meetings.
	Julia Kyles, CPC, is a content specialist at DecisionHealth. Since joining the DecisionHealth editorial team in 2000, she has written a wide range of articles and books including the Anesthesia & Pain Coder’s Pink Sheet and Pain Management Coding Answers. She also develops the agendas for the annual anesthesia and pain management conferences. To improve her coding knowledge and better understand her readers, Kyles joined the AAPC and received her CPC certification in 2015.
	Amy Pritchett, CCS, CPC-I, CPMA, CDEO, CASCC, CANPC, CRC, CDEC, CMPM, C-AHI, senior manager, HCC coding/audit & education services, Pinnacle. Pritchett has more than 20 years of medical billing and coding experience. Her high-level auditing skills encompass both facility and professional fee services. Specializing in revenue cycle management, her broad expertise includes RAC reviews, charge master reviews, outpatient coding assessments, and clinical documentation improvement. She has held several director, management, and lead educator positions and has also been responsible for the oversight of hundreds of coders and multiple locations where she provided staff with ongoing training.
	Amy Turner, RN, BSN, MMHC, CPC, CHC, CHIAP, , is a managing director in Ankura’s Health Care and Life Sciences Practice. She is a registered nurse with a master’s degree in health care management. Turner holds certifications in health care compliance and internal audits and is a certified professional coder. She has been a registered nurse for 25 years and has clinical experience in anesthesia, pain management, medical/surgical care and critical care. She is knowledgeable with Medicare and private payer coverage policies, reimbursement guidelines, and compliance regulations. Turner’s health care operations experience includes private practices, academic medical facilities and hospital-based departments. Her unique blend of clinical, coding, and revenue cycle experience and regulatory compliance expertise allow her to offer independent and objective insights to providers, payers, executives, and counsel.

Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Pain Management

Pricing

Retail price: $399.00

Add on a specialty – Anesthesia, Orthopedics, and/or Billing & Compliance Virtual Summit – for $100 each.

Group pricing is as follows:

• 2-10 attendees = each attendee receives 10% discount off retail price
• 11-15 attendees = each attendee receives 15% discount off retail price
• 16-20 attendees = each attendee receives 20% discount off retail price
• 21 or more attendees = each attendees receive 25% discount off retail price

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Continuing Education

BMSC
This program is approved by the Board of Medical Specialty Coding & Compliance (BMSC) — Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Pain Management on November 12-14, 2024 — 7 CEUs towards the maintenance of the ACS, SCP and CCP-P credentials.