Date: March 10, 2010
Time: 1:15-2:15 CST
Sponsored by: Serbin Surgery Center Billing
Overview: Learn tactics and processes for meeting reimbursement challenges through proven best practices for coding, billing and collections, and discover how one ASC, Ambulatory Surgical Center at Stevens Point (Wis.), turned around its reimbursement processes to increase revenue and profit.
Topics covered will include:
- How to recognize signs that your ASC is in trouble
- Choosing an evaluation company
- Evaluation company’s report and recommendations
– Management changes
– Personnel/task changes
– Fee schedule
– Managed care contracts
– Coding and billing
– Fix compliance issues - Implementing recommendations
- ASC status one year later
Speaker information:
Caryl Serbin: Ms. Serbin is president and founder of Surgery Consultants of America and Serbin Surgery Center Billing and an expert on ASC reimbursement and billing. She has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry, with the last 18 years spent in ambulatory surgery administration and consulting. Ms. Serbin’s companies provide development, management and billing services for numerous freestanding and hospital joint-venture ASCs. As a recognized leader in the industry, Ms. Serbin presents extensively at ASC national seminars and association meetings, authors articles on ASC-related topics and contributes regularly to industry publications.
Becky Ziegler-Otis: Ms. Ziegler-Otis is the administrator at the Ambulatory Surgical Center at Stevens Point (Wis.). She is a contributor to industry publications and has recently presented at several national seminars regarding her experiences with ASC reimbursement turnaround.
Registration:
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