SIR Revenue Cycle Management (separate registration required)

Friday, March 3, 2023

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Location:Phoenix Convention Center, 129AB

Coordinator(s)

C. Matthew Hawkins, MD

Associate Professor of Radiology
Emory University School of Medicine

Disclosure(s): Guerbet LLC: Consultant (Terminated, November 30, 2022)

Disclosure(s):

C. Matthew Hawkins, MD: Guerbet LLC: Consultant (Terminated, November 30, 2022)

The Society of Interventional Radiology is excited to offer the SIR Revenue Cycle Management course. It will educate Interventional Radiologists and their business administrators on coding, billing updates, and best revenue cycle practices to support fiscally sound performance improvements. The course is designed to help IRs improve front, middle, and back-end revenue cycle processes, as demonstrated by improved clinical documentation, code assignment, and associated charge capture. Additionally, the course will cover the CPT® and RUC process on how a CPT® code is made and valued within the AMA® process.

Learning Objectives:

Identify gaps and opportunities in the IR revenue cycle to address in your practice setting.
Understand how to protect your practice from payor audits
Learn about the creation, revision, valuation, and coverage of IR procedure codes.

Presentations:

8:00 AM – 8:05 AM

Introduction
Speaker: C. Matthew Hawkins, MD – Emory University School of Medicine
8:05 AM – 8:50 AM

History and fundamentals of physician reimbursement
Speaker: C. Matthew Hawkins, MD – Emory University School of Medicine
8:50 AM – 9:35 AM

Sites of service and impact on reimbursement: MPFS, HOPPS, IPPS
Speaker: Ashok Bhanushali, MD, MBA (he/him/his) – Geisinger Health System
9:35 AM – 9:45 AM

Break
9:45 AM – 10:15 AM

Front End IR Revenue Cycle Operations: Prior Authorization, Financial Counseling
Speaker: Teri Bedard, RT(R)(T), CPC – Revenue Cycle Coding Strategies
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM

Mid IR Revenue Cycle: Documentation, Coding, Clean Claims
Speaker: Joseph M. Miller, MD, MS, CIRCC – Children's Hospital Los Angeles
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM

Back End Operations: Physician Payment, Denial and Appeals
Speaker: Teri Bedard, RT(R)(T), CPC – Revenue Cycle Coding Strategies
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM

Lunch and learn: case examples of commonly missed revenue
Speaker: Teri Bedard, RT(R)(T), CPC – Revenue Cycle Coding Strategies
Speaker: C. Matthew Hawkins, MD – Emory University School of Medicine
12:15 PM – 12:45 PM

Evaluation and management (E&M) coding in IR: Outpatient and inpatient
Speaker: Julie C. Bulman, MD – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
12:45 PM – 1:15 PM

Optimizing the use of APPs in a modern IR practice
Speaker: C. Matthew Hawkins, MD – Emory University School of Medicine
1:15 PM – 1:45 PM

Coverage Policy: Medicare and Private payors
Speaker: Robert J. Kennedy, Robert J. Kennedy, MD (he/him/his) – Interventional & Vascular Center
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM

Protect Your IR Practice from Audits
Speaker: Katharine Krol, MD, FSIR – SIR Foundation
2:30 PM – 2:40 PM

Break
2:40 PM – 3:10 PM

CPT: IR Code Creation
Speaker: Timothy Swan, MD, FACR, FSIR – Marshfield Clinic Health System
3:10 PM – 3:40 PM

RBRVS: Practice Expense, Physician work,
Speaker: Minhaj S. Khaja, MD, MBA (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
3:40 PM – 4:25 PM

Measuring and increasing revenue from IR services
Speaker: Ammar Sarwar, MD FSIR (he/him/his) – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
4:25 PM – 5:00 PM

Q & A