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Management Briefing: New Medicare 2007 Outpatient and Reimbursement Final Rule Changes

Live 90-Minute Audio Conference Scheduled For

Thursday, December 7, 2006 from 1:30 – 3:00 pm ET

 

Date:                  November 14, 2006

Contact:            Robert Jenkins

Phone:              (732) 292-1100

 

MANASQUAN, N.J. — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced their final rule for billing and coding outpatient services for Medicare payments effective on January 1, 2007.

Health Resources Publishing has announced the new audio conference, “Management Briefing: New Medicare 2007 Oupatient and Reimbursment Final Rule Changes” which is taking place on Thursday, December 7, 2006 from 1:30-3:00 EST.

The speakers are Vickie McElarney, Director, and Tina Ford, Senior Manager of BESLER Consulting, a leading advisory firm in healthcare financial management and operations. This program will review of the Medicare Budget FY 2007 changes affecting outpatient services furnished by general acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, inpatient psychiatric facilities, long-term acute care hospitals, children’s hospitals, and cancer hospitals.

Although CMS projects that the changes will result in an average increase of 3% in Medicare payments for outpatient services over 2006, there are substantal payment decreases in certain areas.

Agenda:

• The new 2007 Medicare code deletions, additions, and changes including:
  • Big changes to radiology codes
  • Infusion therapy changes again, the 3rd time in 3 years
  • Respiratory care code changes
• The reimbursement impact of the changes
• The Q Status Indicator and how to use it with the new codes assigned to it
• The new changes in payment for pharmacy-as status indicator
• Outline of the new quality reporting requirements
• Review of per diem reductions for partial hospitalization services 
• Drug, biological and radiopharmaceutical reimbursement for 2007
• Payments for emergency room services...  find out what was finalized
• LIVE question and answer session

How to Register:

To register for “Management Briefing: Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System 2007 Final Rule Changes,” visit http://www.healthresourcesonline.com/edu/mop.htm or call (800) 516-4343.

The cost of the conference is $227 per site if registered before December 1 and $277 after the early bird deadline. A CD will also be available for purchase for those unable to attend the live conference. For further details and other pricing options, visit http://www.healthresourcesonline.com/edu/mop.htm.

Address: Health Resources Publishing, 1913 Atlantic Ave., Suite F4, Manasquan, NJ 08736; (732) 292-1100, www.healthresourcesonline.com

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