Complimentary Webinar: Optimizing Office Visits for Preventive Services

Thursday, February 23, 2012
1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST
Speaker: Betsy Nicoletti, M.S., CPC

Preventive services are becoming more important to medical practices’ profitability, especially with Medicare coverage of the Annual Wellness Visit. With Medicare now also covering screening for additional services such as alcohol misuse and depression as well as obesity counseling by primary care practices, understanding the delivery and billing of preventive services is more important than ever. Does your practice know how to best manage preventive services to maximize revenue appropriately? Join expert Betsy Nicoletti as she explains how to optimize office visits for preventive services.

This webinar will describe key strategies including:

• The importance of benefit verification prior to services
• Using modifier 33 to prevent denials and patient co-pays for covered preventive services
• Coding preventive services for commercial patients and Medicare patients
• Reporting other services provided at an annual exam
• And much more

CEU Credit

“Optimizing Office Visits for Preventive Services” meets the criteria of the Professional Association of Health Care Office Management and is approved for 1.0 CEU(s).

The American Medical Billing Association (AMBA) will award 1 CMRS CEU for participation in this webinar.

You can download the Kareo Optimizing Office Visits for Preventive Services Webinar Handout now.

Question-and-Answer Session — Ask your tough questions and get answers to your current concerns about how to optimize office visits for preventive services.

Who Should Attend — Private practice owners, office managers, billing managers, billers, billing service owners and others concerned about maximizing practice profitability.

About Your Speaker:
Betsy Nicoletti, M.S., CPC

Betsy Nicoletti is the author of The Field Guide to Physician Coding and the 2007 Physician Auditing Workbook, as well as founder of Codapedia.com. She developed The Accurate Coding System to help doctors get paid for the work they do. She simplifies complex coding rules for practitioners and engages physicians in a positive and respectful way, which encourages attention and accuracy in their coding. Besides doing auditing and compliance work, she is a speaker, writer and consultant in coding education, billing and accounts receivable.

Betsy holds a Masters of Science in Organization and Management from Antioch, New England, and has worked in and around physician offices for over 20 years. She became a certified coder in 1999. Betsy is a member of the National Speakers Association, the Medical Group Management Association and the Healthcare Financial Management Association.