75^th Annual Meeting Practice Management Symposium

Basics of Coding for Starting Your Practice

Event Number: 501

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
09:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Moscone Center
Room: ROOM 307
747 Howard Street
San Francisco CA 94103

You won’t want to miss this fast paced course introducing the most important coding topics to orthopaedic residents. Margaret Maley from Karen Zupko & Associates brings energy and humor to this topic so critical to orthopaedic practice management.
By the end of the course you will:

• Understand how to use the CPT book to report procedures.
• Describe how modifiers help protect reimbursement.
• Understand why it is important to choose the correct diagnosis code and link it to the procedure.
• Understand why documentation is so important for proper reimbursement.
• Explain why the surgeon must take part in the reimbursement process.

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• Annual Meeting Archives
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• Schedule of Future Annual Meetings