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If you are interested in the world of anesthesia from a clinical, coding, billing, and auditing perspective, this webinar is just for you. Learn the basics of anesthesia coding, the formula that builds the charge for anesthesia service. Review of the anesthesia provider’s documentation requirements reviewed in the auditing process. It’s often confusing and misunderstood to recognize the difference in anesthesia techniques as well as types of anesthesia. Learn the various types of anesthesia with a visual of the techniques used and why they are vital to coding and billing.
Expert Marcy Garuccio, ACS-AN, CPC, CPMA, CANPC, Fellow and Dr. Laura McNeill will help you to clear the confusion of monitored anesthesia care. This session will discuss and review of proper modifier assignment. Experts will conclude with field avoidance with patient positioning.
Learning Objective:
- Learn what to review in documentation and coding auditing.
- Understand the types of anesthesia.
- Know the difference between the types and techniques in delivery.
- How to spot clues to confirm elements used in coding
- Code selection
- Understand base and time units
- Proper assignment of modifiers
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Implementing elements needed in EMR and paper charts
- Coding anesthesia and how it relates to claim submission
- Auditing review
- Anesthesia Types
- Anesthesia Techniques
- Positioning and Field Avoidance
- Anesthesia Formula
- Live Q&A Session
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Suggested Attendees:
- Administrators
- Coders
- Billers
- Auditors
- Clinicians
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Anesthesia Providers
- Compliance Personnel
- Coding Supervisors
- HIM Director
- HIM Staff
- Revenue Cycle Management Staff
Presenter Biography:
Marcy Garuccio, ACS-AN,CANPC, CPMA, CPC, SME, Fellow
Marcy’s career spans more than 30 years and is built on a strong anesthesia foundation. For 20 years, she was the president of Health Care Billing Associates, an organization that began as a medical billing service for anesthesia practices and grew to include other physician and surgical specialties. Marcy also served as the administrative director for multiple anesthesia and pathology groups. Presently she is the Director of Coding for Nimble Solutions. She is a speaker for the annual Advanced Specialty Coding Compliance and Reimbursement Symposium presented by Decision Health. She is also a presenter at various AAPC local chapter meetings and presented at the AAPC 2021 HealthCon. She is presently a subject matter expert for AAPC and working on the upcoming updated CANPC program.
Dr. Laura McNeill, Anesthesiologist
Dr. McNeill has been a private practice anesthesiologist for more than 25 years and currently works at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. Before embarking on a clinical career, she worked as a medical research technician at the University of Pittsburgh and Chicago Children’s Hospital. She attended medical school at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago and served her rotating internship at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Illinois. Following her anesthesia residency at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Chicago Hospitals, Dr. McNeill studied cardiothoracic anesthesia for six months at Allegheny General Hospital.
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