Not Your Granddaddy’s Billing and Coding Rules: Changes in 2022 and Beyond: Office Hours with the Experts

September 27, 2022

Hospice and palliative care programs are growing nationally. Once niche services well under the fiscal radar, many programs now have 7-figure budgets and a dozen or more clinicians. As program costs increase, sponsoring institutions’ and organizations’ expectations for clinical revenue growth leave HPC team members working longer hours to see more patients to help close the budgetary gap. Most HPC providers have become accustomed to basic billing and coding practices, and significant opportunities exist, even for seasoned clinicians and program leads, in the rapidly expanding array of billing revenue opportunities. It is critical for all clinicians to understand billing at a deeper level and feel comfortable with more complex billing topics.

Target Audience

Hospice Medical Directors

HPM Physicians

Nurses

Nurse Practitioners

Pharmacists

PAs 

Learning Outcomes

This activity is designed to optimize the significant opportunities which exist in billing revenue practices within the framework of the updated 2022 Medicare Documentation Guidelines through:

  • Maximizing the five most used groups of billing codes applicable to palliative care teams' clinical work.
  • Emphasizing the new Medicare documentation guideline opportunities to save time and increase revenue.
  • Augmenting billing codes selection across settings, to take full advantage of all the tools available in Medicare and commercial health plans.
Activity summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 CME (physician only)
  • 1.00 Participation
Activity Published: 
08/30/2022
Activity Expires: 
10/31/2022
Event starts: 
09/27/2022 - 12:00pm CDT
Event ends: 
09/27/2022 - 1:15pm CDT
Member cost:
$39.00
List Price:
$39.00
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Disclosures 

AAHPM endorses the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Standards for disclosure and commercial support and endeavors to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor for all accredited products or programs. All who are in a position to control or influence the content of an educational activity must disclose any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.*Disclosure documents were reviewed for potential conflicts of interest and, if identified, were resolved prior to confirmation of participation. Only those who had no conflict of interest or who agreed to an identified resolution process prior to their participation were involved in this activity.

All editors, faculty and staff have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

*An ineligible company is defined as any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. 

Faculty
Christopher A. Jones, MD MBA HMDC FAAHPM
Phillip Rodgers, MD FAAHPM
Janet Bull, MD MBA FAAHPM HMDC

Content Editors
Julie Tanner, BSN RN-BC CHPN
Julie Bruno, MSW LCSW

Staff
Stephanie Adams
Leah Farfan
Theresa Nissen
Julie Tanner, BSN RN-BC CHPN
Angie Tryfonopoulos

Continuing Medical Education (CME)
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.


The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) designates this Live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Successful completion includes attesting to meaningful activity participation and completion/submission of activity evaluation within the time frame designated.

Evaluation period closes October 31, 2022, for claiming CME credit.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 CME (physician only)
  • 1.00 Participation

Price

Member cost:
$39.00
List Price:
$39.00
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