You asked for some inexpensive Webinars - so here are two of them in FEBRUARY
Feb. 19, 2010 One Hour E & M Documentation webinar to simplify for you, your physicians and your billers as to what is required on each of the different levels of office visits, hospital initial and hospital follow-up, emergency room visits, consultations (for the non Medicare patients), skilled nursing facility visits and more. We’ll also be discussing the 4 instances when time has to be documented and registrants will also receive a free E&M Slide-Rule that will be mailed to them prior to the seminar if they register in time. This Webinar is $50 for your entire office, regardless of how many people you have sitting at your computer or on the call. Register for this one at: FEB 19, 2010 E&M WEBINAR After you register - you need to go to DON SELF WEB STORE to pay for it. This webinar is limited to the first 100 registrants, and filling up quickly. If you do not register before February 15, you may not receive the sliderule in the mail prior to the seminar - but you'll still be able to learn from the webinar if you get it afterwards.
Feb. 26, 2010 – One Hour webinar on PQRI. This one hour PQRI seminar, taught by Don, will clarify the differences between the PQRI Reporting Bonus (2% from Medicare) and the true value of PQRI in helping you achieve better medical outcomes - while increasing the annual income of a typical primary care (GP, FP, IM or Geriatric) practice by $100,000.00 a year. It's really not difficult and this one hour should help you achieve these goals. This first PQRI Webinar is priced at only $35 per office, but it is designed strictly for General Practice, Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Geriatric, Billing Services or multi-specialty clinics that have these specialties. I do not believe that surgeons, chiropractors, cardio, dermatology, urology, rheumatology, nephrology or specialties other than primary care will benefit as much from this webinar. Register for this one at FEB 26, 2010 PQRI INCREASING PRIMARY CARE INCOME BY $100,000 PER YEAR WEBINAR After you register - you need to go to DON SELF WEB STORE to pay for it. This webinar is limited to the first 100 registrants.
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WHAT IS OUR MESSAGE?
Physicians and managers MISTAKENLY believe that we are ABOUT to enter a PAY FOR PERFORMANCE (PFP) payments structure and we're about to go through Health Care Insurance Reform. What most do not realize is that we've ALWAYS had PFP (you performed a service and you were paid for it) unless you were foolish enough to let capitation agreements take over your practice. You may not have realized that health care financing reform has been happening since the Balanced Budgement Amendment (BBA) of 1996. In the last 9 years, Medicare (and other payers) have moved money from procedures and visits into Evidenced Based Medicine (EBM) without telling you what they were doing. They reduced the amounts they pay on many procedures and moved that money into diagnostics, clinical lab and some imaging. Therefore - if you have continued to practice over the past few years as you always have, you noticed that you had to see more patients to make the same amount of money - or you have been seeing a decrease in your monthly deposits. The answer is simple. Practice Evidenced Based Medicine and you'll see your income increase (in an average family or internal practice) by $150,000 to $400,000 per year. The best part is that you'll be practicing BETTER medicine and capturing the problems with your patients earlier while you're increasing your practice income. This is what we are teaching thousands of physicians each year at the state and national conventions where we speak
Keith and Don are consultants. We will spend time on the phone with you and your physician, if you qualify, for free, asking questions to see if you're in line with the changes mandated by PQRI, AHRQ, EBM and more. This usually results in an average primary care practice increasing their net income by more than $165,000 per year.... per physician.
Special Message for Medical Office Managers
You have an almost impossible task every day. You have to be proficient in managing physicians & staff, hiring, firing, billing, accounts payable, inventory, compliance, HIPAA, CLIA, OSHA, taxes, scheduling, Information Technology, EMR, Prescription Management, Dealing with Pharmaceutical reps, contracts, leases, financing, and more. On top of that, your doctor asks you every day what will happen if this law is passed or Medicare makes another change. You need help and you are wondering why you should call Don Self to see if we can help or whether Don will point out something that needs to be changed. We're your friends. We are very good at helping primary care practices increase their net deposits, through our consulting (we're not a billing service or collection service) with you to get you in line with what the reform that has been taking place since 1996. If we can't help you increase that income by $100,000 in your practice - you don't pay us a penny for our consulting. It's really that simple.
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CODERS & MANAGERS, MAKE YOUR JOB EASIER AND QUIT GIVING YOUR DOCTOR AN ULCER OR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.
E&M Coding is very simple, yet so many only know it to be confusing. Your doctor is trying to do a good job - so make it easier on them by
using the E&M Sliderule. I have taught thousands of physicians in the last 9 years using this sliderule and doctors can usually learn all they
need to know about E&M documentation within 20 minutes using this tool - and they LIKE it. Click on the image below to go to a page showing how you can order it.
Order one for $12.50 plus $2.50 s/h and we'll send it to you with a statement. If you like it - pay the statement. If not, return it and owe nothing. You have nothing to lose. We have sold thousands of these so far.
DON STARTED A NEW LISTSERV IN NOVEMBER 2009 FOR BILLERS, CODERS, MANAGERS, PHYSICIANS, NON PHYSICIAN PROVIDERS, ETC... ON YAHOO. YOU'RE WELCOME TO JOIN, BUT PLEASE TELL ME WHAT SPECIALTY YOU WORK IN AND HOW YOU HEARD OF IT WHEN YOU APPLY.
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CHART QUOTE: "The baby was delivered, the cord clamped and cut and handed to the pediatrician, who breathed and cried immediately".
RVU fILEexplanation, showing the description of each column of the RVU file in pdf. added 12/29/09 - 236kb
MEDICARE PQRI - see PQRI below -
CHART QUOTE: "Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities. "
99211 PowerPoint Presentation on when it is appropriate and when it is not appropriate to use 99211, by Lori Hoyt - who did an EXCELLENT job on this and donated it to the site
ACRONYMS Used in FEDERAL REGISTER with the 2005 Medicare Fee Schedules
ABN - FOR EVERYONE This is required (since Sept 1, 2008) where Medicare payment is expected to be denied for medical necessity reasons. The revised ABN replaces the 2002 ABN-G (Form CMS-R-131G), ABN-L (Form CMS-R-131L), and NEMB (Form CMS-20007) - in Adobe (PDF) Format (47KB).
CHART QUOTE: He had a left-toe amputation one month ago. He also had a left-knee amputation last year.
ANCILLARY INCOME chart listing services that most practices can and should be performing in their office, with income potential and costs, donated by Miheer Shah, Director
Strategic Medical Management, Inc./RapidCare on 1/29/07, and updated by Don Self on 1/30.
APPEALS BOOK - THE ART OF APPEALS in PDF, written by Steve Verno, CMMB, CMMC, NREMTP and released by the BC aDVANTAGE - ADDED on 11/12/09.
Excellent chart auditing form in Word format, along with instructions, submitted by ?. This form will help you on cpt coding as well as medical documentation.
BC/BS LETTER Letters sent by Georgia State Board of Ins. & BC/BS about the automatic downcoding they did. This is the same one that was being faxed by Anne Robinson. It is in PDF format
Body Mass Index Table in PDF format, with cross-index, donated to this page by Joey Hilario
Cardiac Questionnaire for patients to complete. Best used when placed on back side of Symptoms Survey form (also found on this page) in Word by Jason Green.
Cardiology New patient Form in Excel by Jean Stoner.
CHART QUOTE: On the second day the knee was better and on the third day it had completely disappeared.
Cardiology Est patient Form in Excel, also from Jean Stoner Jean did a great job on these forms! (35KB)
The AMBA also help doctors in the following areas: medical coding information, cpt code usage, claim processing data, tips on electronic medical billing, links to billing services, hipaa compliance and HIPAA compliance, denial by carriers, executive healthcare information and more
used by the physician to record care plan oversight services rendered each month in RTF format.
CHART QUOTE: She is numb from her toes down.
CARE PLAN OVERSIGHT FORM used by the physician to record total care plan oversight services rendered each month in WORD format, which is necessary for medical reimbursement and proper cpt coding.
CHARITY POLICY & APPLICATION used by a Radiology practice in Washington that not only explains what the law is about charity write-offs, but also gives you the application and criteria for poverty levels - submitted by Michelle Juette
CLAIM FORM INSTRUCTIONS FOR NEW CMS 1500 - previously called HCFA 1500 claim form in HTML format, for the new claim form.
Code Of Conduct and example being used by some offices to show compliance with OSHA, HIPAA, privacy laws, etc. from Joyce Kyle (Indiana)in WORD format. Code Of Conduct For Employees in Word format from Daryl Ewing in Houston.
YOUR DOCTOR IS CONFUSED ABOUT THE CODING DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS - DOWNLOAD SOME OF THE FOLLOWING E&M CODING ASSISTS AND THEN CHECK OUT THE OFFER WE HAVE AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE ON E&M DOCUMENTATION SLIDERULES. YOU CAN ALSO CALL MSI (MEDICAL SOURCE, INC) WHO SPECIALIZES IN ASSISTING YOU IN MEDICAL CODING REVIEW, CPT CODING, CPT CODE USAGE, CLAIM PROCESSING DATA, ELECTRONIC MEDICAL BILLING, HIPAA COMPLIANCE AND MORE
This Word document donated by Michelle Green is excellent and easy to use.
Coding Card & An Out-Of-Office Coding Card from Adel Miles in WORDPERFECT 5.0 format. This does not prevent the office manager from having to go out into the parking lot and checking the forgetfull doctor's car for charge tickets & billing notes left above the visor. Having the correct information is vital for proper claim processing and healthcare reimbursement.
Coding Correction Card A coding correction card in PDF format, donated by Laura Caperton on 8/15/05
CODING FLOWCHART FOR CPT CODING SIMPLIFIED in WORD format, comparing AAPC and AHIMA coding certifications, submitted by Jeff Rustucio, added Oct 16, 2002
CHART QUOTE: Both breasts are equal and reactive to light and accommodation.
Compliance Plan for CPT Coding & This text file is a good coding compliance plan by Leslie J, added to the site Jan. 17, 2003
Compliance Plan & This 32K text file is a product of Sheila, Susan and Todd. Will it keep the HCFA Gestapo from nailing you in an audit? Who knows - but since they put so much work into it - I added it to the page
CO-PAY, DEDUCTIBLE ∓ WAIVER INSTRUCTIONS & FORM This is an excellent guide, reference and waiver to use on charity cases, submitted by Sherry Straub, in Word format (31K). See also - Charity form above for a different guide to waiving co-pay and deductibles
CHART QUOTE: "When she fainted, her eyes rolled around the room."
CONSENT FORM FOR TREATMENT used by the physician to record the patient's consent for treatment in Word format.
CONSENT FORM (This one is a spoof created by Don) In WORD format.
CHART QUOTE: Whilst in Casualty she was examined, X-rated and sent home.
CO-PAY-LETTER to send to insurance carriers notifying them that the policyholder has not paid the co-pay or co-insurance in Word format, donated by Laura Bassett, RMM in August of 2007
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C.P.O. (CARE PLAN OVERSIGHT) FORM used by the physician to record care plan oversight services rendered each month, in RTF format. This form is necessary if you intend to bill for G0179, G0180, etc...
C.P.O. (CARE PLAN OVERSIGHT) FORM used by the physician to record total care plan oversight services rendered each month, in WORD format.
used submitted by Diane Brooks in WORD format, which is needed for CPT code 99291.
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instructions from Medicare, (pdf format) thanks to Karen Hurley
DIAGNOSTIC TEST INTERPRETATION rules of Medicare for ERs - telling Medicare to pay for the interp actually used in the treatment and not just an interp used as quality control. Radiologists will not like this rule that most people are not aware of. In PDF format - from CMS MCM 15023.
in Microsoft Word format - - Added 3/10/03 - by George Ward
Drug Pricing by NDC in Microsoft Excel format in a zipped file. This Excel file is 3.5 megs when unzipped and 957kb when zipped. It was donated to the site by Jacqueline C. Langlois, RN, MSN, CRNI with Mass Med Legal. - - Added 3/24/02
E & M DOCUMENT TABLE This nifty table was submitted by Deb Martinez on 10/7/99 and many will find this easy to use.
CHART QUOTE: "Patient was released to outpatient department without dressing."
E & M HISTORY This form submitted by Stephanie L. Fiedler, CPC, ASC-EM and it is in WORD format.
E & M WORKSHOP HANDOUT - - - This is the 34 page seminar workbook Don drafted up (garnering info from everyone I could) in Word format (135kb) (106KB).
E&M Utilization files - see UTILIZATION PER SPECIALTY for the link to a special page.
Emergency Medicine Documentation Guide in Word for Office 95 format by Martin Gottlieb called 1998doc.doc. (141kb)
Emergency Room Acuity worksheet in Excel format, donated by Mimi Tytko (19kb) Emergency ROOM Acuity worksheet in Word format, also donated by Mimi Tytko (63kb)
Emergency ROOM Code Utilization listed by State on ERCODER.COM website run by Todd Thomas, whom I trust more than any other for ER coding answers, added 10/6/06.
EMPLOYEE Evaluation Form for hourly employees - in Word format, so you can change it as you wish to - also donated by PAHCS.
EMPLOYEE QUIZ - A quiz (in WORD format) to give to prospective employees or to use to test your existing employees donated to the list by Deb Lief in Fort Worth. Be careful though that some lane brane prospective employee with an IQ equal to their shoe size doesn't hire a liberal ACLU certified attorney (looking to save the world for people that refuse to accept personal responsibility) to sue you if they fail the test
EMPLOYEE QUIZ - The same quiz described above in TEXT format
EMPLOYEE REPRIMAND FORM - This form can be used when warning an employee about improper behavior or when you're not satisfied with their job performance in WORD format
Employment & Pre-Employment Medical Billing Test - This is a good pre-employment test designed by and copyrighted by Steve Verno, who shares it in it's original format for whomever wishes to use it.
ENCOUNTER FORM - An EXCELLENT encounter form to use for documentation that prompts the doctor to document all healthcare reimbursement elements needed for the E&M encounter in Word Format called encountr.doc by Sandy Turpin.
Encounter Form Maker is one of the easiest programs we have seen for helping offices prepare, update and design superbills and encounter forms. I've created hundreds of different superbills in my earlier career as a Superbill salesman with Controlo-o-fax, and I only wish I had this program back then.
DON BELIEVES YOU CAN HELP 75% OF YOUR PATIENTS WITH MIGRAINE HEADACHES REDUCE OR ELIMINATE THEIR HEADACHES WITHOUT PILLS, INJECTIONS OR PROCEDURES. CLICK ON THE MAN ABOVE TO READ ONE PAGE DON HAS AND THEN YOU CAN COME BACK TO THIS PAGE.
ENCOUNTER FORM 2 - Another EXCELLENT encounter form to use for documentation that prompts the doctor to document all elements needed for the E&M encounter in Word Format donated by Deborah Hill in Georgia.
ER Audit Worksheet This is a very useful (48KB) worksheet (WORD FORMAT) to use, donated by Charlene Burgett, BS,CMA,CMM,CPC,CCP
ER INTERPRETATION rules of Medicare for diagnostic tests - telling Medicare to pay for the interp actually used in the treatment and not just an interp used as quality control. Radiologists will not like this rule that most people are not aware of. In Word format - from CMS MCM 15023.
CHART NOTE: "The patient has no past history of suicides."
ERISA - HOW TO APPEAL YOUR CLAIM AND MAKE THE CARRIERS PAY YOUR CLAIM IN FULL (NOT JUST ALLOWED OR UCR) USING THE 1974 LAWS IN PLACE THAT THEY HAVE TO OBEY. CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW, AND YOU WILL BE SURPRISED. YOU'LL PROBABLY WIN ON AT LEAST 80% OF YOUR APPEALS - REGARDLESS OF THE REASON FOR DENIAL OR REASON THEY REDUCED THE PAYMENT.
ERISA WEBINAR , handout in pdf format, created by Dr. Jin Zhou in mid January, 2010. Dr. Jin is an expert at ERISA and every person reading this website that appeals medical claims WILL have to learn ERISA if OBAMA's healthcare plan is passed, as both bills (House and Senate) include that requirement. This will help you to understand.
EVALUATION FORM FOR EMPLOYEES - A tongue-in-cheek employee evaluation form in WORD format by Don - feel free to add to, modify or alter this form. It's not copyrighted.
FAMILY MEMBERS WHO MEDICARE DOESN'T ALLOW YOU TO BILL in WORD format
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FLUOROSCOPY CODE APPEAL in WORD format, donated by Linda at Desert Pain Institute (with names changed by Don)
HCFA Memo re. E&M documentation from Dr. Kanoff submitted by Linda Howrey in Word Format. If you prefer - you can have it in
TEXT HCFA'S memo format. I have to say - in all of the time I've seen stuff from Linda - I've never seen it incorrect - she's one of the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree
HIPAA CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT (CA) & NON DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT in WORD format, (2 PAGE) donated by Dr. Herbert Schwarz - This file was added March 11, 2003
HIPAA NPP (NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICE 2 PAGE final in WORD format, donated by Jennifer Humbert - added March 10, 2003, and required if practices intend to be HIPAA COMPLIANT.
7 PAGE in WORD format, donated by Dr. Herbert Schwarz - He does HIPAA consulting with HIPAA TODAY and his phone is 714-838-4259 (O). This file was added March 11, 2003
CHART QUOTE: "The patient experienced sudden onset of severe shortness of breath with a picture of acute pulmonary oedema at home while having sex which gradually deteriorated in the emergency room. "
HIPAA NPP in SPANISH using WORD format, donated by Cindy Weston with The American Medical Billing Associaton (AMBA)- Their site is http://www.ambanet.net.
MEMO PER CMS, donated by Diane Brooks. This letter in pdf format is dated in 1991 from CMS
HOSPITAL HCFA'S RULES RE. CLASSIFYING ENTITY AS HOSPITAL OUT-PATIENT OR PHYSICIAN CLINIC
HPI Letters discussion whether it is allowed to count one item notated in the documentation under both, the HPI and the ROS. One of these letters is from Bart McCann, who used to be with HCFA. It is in PDF format, so you will need Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader. This is vital to know for proper claims processing and Healthcare Reimbursement
CHART QUOTE: "Many years ago the patient had frostbite of the right shoe. "
If you know someone suffering from IBS - check out LEAP on the top left menu on this page - We have a better than 81% success rate!
ICD9 CODING Pocketbook in Word format by Jaime Darling, CPC
(444kb)
LAB ICD9 DIAGNOSIS CHEAT SHEET - THIS IS THE FORM - IN WORD 97 FORMAT - THAT ADEL MILES HAS BEEN FAXING TO PART B LISTSERV MEMBERS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. IT IS CALLED LABDX.DOC - - -
that Don Self manages. It's free and it is a great way to network with other offices about Healthcare Reimbursement, medical billing and claim processing as well as executive healthcare issues. We discuss medical coding information, cpt code usage, claim processing data, tips on electronic medical billing, links to billing services, hipaa compliance and HIPAA compliance, denial by carriers, executive healthcare information and more.
One of the ways that Don stays on top of changes is through Internet Listservs. This link will take you to a site that not only has a listserv for just about any specialty, and they also deal with medical coding information, cpt code usage, claim processing data, tips on electronic medical billing, links to billing services, hipaa compliance and HIPAA compliance, denial by carriers, executive healthcare information and more
but also they publish some excellent newsletters, publications and consulting.
For the very best in Podiatry coding, medical billing, claim processing and healthcare reimbursement business matters, you have to be a member of the Codingline community, run and managed by one of the very best in the business - Harry Goldsmith, DPM
LOCALITIES - MEDICARE in Excel format, listing the different carriers, carrier numbers, localities, states, etc.
MANAGED CARE CONTRACTING TIPS & the top 10 reasons why you should tell Mangled care companies NO, in WORD format, donated by Patricia Nelson
Multi-Specialty Exam Form in Microsoft Word/Wordpad format in a self-extracting file by Bill Cox (21KB) This is not a test you give physicians to see if they can name all the specialties
YOU GOTTA LAUGH
New York, NY During a police lineup, a detective told each man to step forward and repeat the threat delivered at the robbery: "Give me all your money or I'll shoot." One man stepped forward and yelled, "That's not what I said!"
in Microsoft Excel format in a zipped file. This Excel file is 3.5 megs when unzipped and 957kb when zipped. It was donated to the site by Jacqueline C. Langlois, RN, MSN, CRNI with Mass Med Legal.
in Kansas/Nebraska/NW Missouri. This document file contains an excerpt from their September 1999 Special Bulletin - submitted to this site by Savannah Seins, CPC in August 2000.
New Patient History Form in WORD DOCUMENT format (41KB) It has the standard questions such as "Were you born? Did you have a mother? Have you made out a will?"
Form in WORD DOCUMENT format in a self-extracting file (21KB)
NO-SHOW Information regarding Medicare and CMS, added 4/15/08, thanks to Cyndee Weston with the American Medical Billers Association
NO-SHOW Divorce Letter to patients to explain why you're divorcing them in WORD DOCUMENT format (20KB) Added 4/23/02
NO-SHOW Referral Letter to other physicians that requested you perform a consult, informing them that their patient never showed up for the appointment in WORD DOCUMENT format (20KB) Added 4/23/02
Guide in WORD 97 format by Judy Harris. (39KB) - -
OB/GYN Guide in TEXT format by Judy Harris. (8KB) - OK - one bit of advice to the guys .... If you're wife's expecting and you're going to be in the room with her when she gives birth - remove your wedding ring before you put the scrubs on - It will save you some pain - BELIEVE ME!!!
Attending Form in TEXT
format by Belinda Dixon (3kB) -
Phone Form for recording the information you take on a new patient when they call in for the appointment. This form
was donated by Lori Wyvill. You have your choice of downloading it in Word or Wordperfect format.
PODIATRY LISTSERV - FREE TRIAL OFFER CodingLine has more than a dozen coding experts (most of which are Podiatrists, Seminar Leaders and Consultants). By clicking on this link, you will be taken to a site where you can sign up for a free trial of this Podiatry Listserv. Since it's free - you have nothing to lose by checking it out.
RED FLAG LAW POLICY & PROGRAM Form in PDF format. The new 2009 Red Flag - Identify Theft laws went into effect January 1st, to help ensure that patient identify theft is guarded against and it does apply to medical offices - including the 1 doctor practices. The enforcement date changed from May 1st to August 1st - but you need to establish some kind of policy in your office before August 1st and this is an example you're welcome to use and change to suit your needs - for free - from Don - -
Refund Request Response letter Excellent Letter - in WORD format- -(10kb) - This one really kicks the insurance carriers in the butt! If you like it - you should check out www.appealsolutions.com as they have these specific to each state!
Review Of System form that you have each patient complete on every visit and place into the patient's chart. Not only will you meet every requirement for ROS, but also the PFSH on each visit, as well as serve as a reminder of certain items for the doctor when they are tired and forgot to ask or document by Don Self - in WORD format- -(34kb) -
SCRIBES CAN BE USED on Medicare patients, per this letter from HCFA in RTF format, called scribes.rtf - donated to the site by Deena Wojtkowski, CMA, CCP
Signature Regulations - - Per State. This RTF file from Linda Howrey lists the different physician signature requirements. BTW - the letters RTF stands for rich text format
WELCOME TO MEDICARE EXAM SYNAPSIS in Word format, updated 1/4/05, donated by Charlene Burgett, BS, CMA, CMM, CPC, CCP.
WELCOME TO MEDICARE PATIENT INFORMATION & CONSENT FORM in Word format, updated 3/3/05, donated by Charlene Burgett, BS, CMA, CMM, CPC, CCP, who credits it to Steve Cooper at Towncrest Internal Medicine in Iowa City, Iowa. Thank you Steve!
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