Webinars
Northeast District presents, 'Optimal Documentation, Billing and Compliance for 2020 and Beyond'
Description
This compliance presentation and discussion will address major areas of healthcare payment and compliance including how they impact physical and occupational therapy in everyday practice! The focus will be on Medicare billing and coding, and advances in telehealth.
Course objectives
By the end of this presentation, the attendees will be able to:
- Understand Major Payer Regulatory and Business Initiatives in Payment/Compliance related to…
- Medicare/Medicaid/3rd Party/WC
- Medicare Updates 2020
- Payment Updates
- Documentation for Payment
- Therapist Assistant Coding & Documentation
- Maintenance Coverage
- Telehealth coverage documentation and billing
- Medicare Updates 2020
- Additional Payer Considerations:
- Authorization Challenges and Coverage
- Payment Indexing
- Medicare/Medicaid/3rd Party/WC
- Outline Important Documentation for Therapy Evaluations; Progress Reports and Discharge Summaries
- Identify optimal daily documentation & billing strategies that capture & communicate both skill and value!
About The Speaker(s)
Dr. Lynn Steffes, PT, DPT is President/Consultant of Steffes & Associates, a rehabilitation consulting service based in Wisconsin. She provides consulting services to rehab providers nation-wide working with between 50-100 practices/health care systems per year.
She has enabled providers to achieve optimum success in the delivery of high quality, cost-effective care to their patients/clients by offering assistance with
- Marketing and program development
- Customer Service initiatives and patient alumni programs
- Negotiating managed care contracts and payer relations
- Training and staff development in the referral and payer relations process
- Optimal reimbursement and documentation strategies
- Lobbying and advocacy for therapy services
Dr. Steffes is a 1981 graduate of Northwestern University and completed her Transitional DPT in December of 2010. She served as a Network Administrator for a group of 50+ private practice clinics where her primary responsibilities include marketing, payer and provider relations and contract management.
In addition to her work as a consultant, Ms. Steffes is a frequent speaker at both National & State Meetings. She works as adjunct faculty member/guest faculty in the physical therapy program of the University of Wisconsin Madison. She is also a guest lecturer and recent recipient of PT Alumni of the year award at her alma mater Northwestern University in Chicago. Her expertise ranges from professional referral relations, marketing & customer service and practice start-ups. In addition, she has addressed private practices, hospital systems, professional associations and therapy networks in over thirty states.
Dr. Steffes is active in her profession as a member of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and chair of the Nominating Committee for the Private Practice Section of APTA, and the Wisconsin Chapter of APTA, serving as the Chapter’s Reimbursement Specialist.
