Online CME programs (Enduring Material – Internet)
The Office of Group Practice Services now offers CME credit for past Web conferences offered during the year. These 90 minute online webinars focus on practice management issues geared toward physicians and practice administrators in small to medium sized group practices. Available topics are listed below.
Medicare’s Pay for Reporting Bonus (PQRI) – What’s in it for you?
(Originally Offered: February 21, 2008)
CME Credit: approved for 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ OR
CEU Credit: approved by the Professional Association of Health Care Office Management (PAHCOM) for 1.5 CEUs toward renewal of PAHCOM Medical Manager
Faculty: Coker Group Speaker, Max Reiboldt, CPA
Program Description:
In 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), a voluntary reporting program to improve quality through the use of clinical performance measures. Practices who report on the designated set of quality measures can earn a bonus payment of up to 1.5% of total allowed charges for covered Medicare physician fee schedule services, based on claims submitted for services provided. This Web conference will detail how to report the required data, either with or without an EMR system. This program will also help identify practice’s patients that fall within the given criteria, and determine vital information to be tracked.
Getting Paid What You Deserve: Strategies for Reimbursement and Payer Contracting
(Originally Offered: April 24, 2008)
CME Credit: approved for 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ OR
CEU Credit: approved by the Professional Association of Health Care Office Management (PAHCOM) for 1.5 CEUs toward renewal of PAHCOM Medical Manager certification
Faculty: Coker Group Speaker, Susan Childs, FACMPE
Program Description:
The financial success of a medical practice relies on the administrator’s business skills and contracting savvy. However, due to time constraints, especially in smaller practices, many physicians/administrators do not have sufficient time to negotiate and manage their payer relationships. Practice administrators must understand key reimbursement issues, contractual terminology effects their practice implications. This session will help you understand how to distinguish your practice’s distinctive value to the payers in a way that results in higher reimbursements. You will know how to incorporate contract language that is most beneficial to your practice in today’s “incentive” environment. The goal is to be paid what you deserve. This program will help practice managers navigate that process proficiently.
The American Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Medical Association designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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