Objectives:

1. Understand the proper documentation required for Emergency Medicine reimbursement.

2. Understand the relationship between quality charting/diagnosis and reimbursement from patients and insurance carriers.

3. Define CPT, ICD-10 and coding procedures.

4. Understand bad debt, contracted allowances, and charity.

5. Review and understand ambulatory patient groups.

6. Understand the process and function of a billing agency.

7. Understand the role of billing in capitated and managed care systems.

8. Understand MIPS and its future implications for physicians.

Assignments:

ICD-10 Documentation