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Join Medtronic Healthcare Economics for our educational WebEx series. These presentations will provide information on coding, reimbursement and healthcare economics as they relate to Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management (CRDM).

Following the live presentation, WebExs will be archived, so you may view them at your convenience.

Archived WebEx Presentations

Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Calendar Year 2009 Update

Program Speakers:

Healthcare Economics Staff —
Joanne Groenewold and Teresa Stamper-Strelitz

Agenda:

  • Review key regulatory changes for Calendar Year 2009
  • CPT Changes
  • Changes to the Medicare Physician Payments
  • PQRI Update

PDF View slides (.pdf)
MovieView WebEx (.wmv)

Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Changes Effective 1-1-2009

Program Speakers:

Healthcare Economics Staff –
Teresa Stamper-Strelitz and Joanne Groenewold

Agenda:

  • Review key regulatory changes for Calendar Year 2009
  • Changes to the OPPS payment system
  • Medicare national payment rates for selected CRDM procedures
  • Q & A

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MovieView WebEx (.wmv)

New 2009 CPT® Codes for Cardiac Device Monitoring

Program Speaker:

Linda Holtzman,
MHA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-H
Clarity Coding™

Topics:

  • Background on the new codes
  • Comparison of the 2008 and 2009 codes
  • Utilization of the new codes

PDF View slides (.pdf)
MovieView WebEx (.wmv)

Managing the Cardiovascular Patient’s Level of Care in a RAC Environment

Program Speakers: Day Egusquiza, President, AR Systems, Inc.

Original Presentation Date: September 30, 2008

Agenda Discussion Items/Objectives:

  1. General overview of the CMS Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Program
  2. Discussion regarding inpatient and outpatient levels of care
  3. Appropriate use of observation status

PDF View slides (.pdf)
MovieView WebEx (.wmv)

Note: The WebEx video is a large file. It works best to save the file before attempting to play it. To do so, right-click on the link and choose "Save Target As.."

Trouble viewing the video?
Download Windows Media Player 11.

Medicare DRG Changes effective 10-1-2008

Program Speakers: Healthcare Economics Staff —
Teresa Stamper-Strelitz and Joanne Groenewold

Agenda:

  • Identify DRG Changes for Cardiac Rhythm Management Device (CRDM) Therapies for FY09
  • National DRG Payment Rates for Selected CRDM Therapies
  • Key Highlights for Other Cardiovascular Therapies
  • Q & A

PDF View slides (.pdf)
MovieView WebEx (.wmv)

Note: The WebEx video is a large file. It works best to save the file before attempting to play it. To do so, right-click on the link and choose "Save Target As.."

Trouble viewing the video?
Download Windows Media Player 11.

Advanced EP Coding for 2008

Original Presentation Date:  May 14, 2008

Speaker: Linda Holtzman, MHA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-H, Clarity Coding™

Agenda:

  • Advanced Coding, Coverage and Reimbursement
  • Medicare cardiac device coverage
  • CPT codes for cardiac device therapies
  • Procedure and Diagnosis coding scenarios for a variety of arrhythmia and implant procedures

PDF View WebEx slides (.pdf)
MovieView WebEx (.wmv)

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EP Fellows Webex: Hospital Reimbursement

Original Presentation Dates: May 28th, 2008

Our 2008 EP Fellows Program is designed to help inform EP Fellows of the healthcare economics perspectives of today's clinical practice environment.

Agenda:

  • Introduction to CRDM Healthcare Economics (HCE)
  • Introduction to Medicare: Coding, Coverage, and Payment for Hospital Procedures
  • Medicare Hospital Inpatient DRG Coding
  • Medicare Hospital IP DRG Payment for FY08 and Hospital OP for CY08
  • Documentation
  • Inpatient vs. Outpatient and RACs

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MovieView WebEx (.wmv)

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EP Fellows Webex: Physician Coding for Cardiac Devices

Original Presentation Dates: March 18 and 19, 2008

Our 2008 EP Fellows Program is designed to help inform EP Fellows of the healthcare economics perspectives of today’s clinical practice environment.

Agenda:

  • Coding, Coverage and Reimbursement Basics
  • Medicare cardiac device coverage
  • CPT codes for cardiac device therapies
  • Coding scenarios for a variety of arrhythmia and implant procedure

PDF View WebEx slides (.pdf)
MovieView WebEx (.wmv)

Trouble viewing the video?
Download Windows Media Player 11.

Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Calendar Year 2008 Update

This web seminar reviewed the 2008 Medicare Physician fee schedule changes, conversion factors, CPT changes, PQRI updates, and Physician documentation.

Original Presentation Dates: January 22 and 23, 2008

PDF Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Calendar Year 2008 Update
Movie View WebEx (.wrf)

The Ins and Outs of Cardiac Devices:
Getting Patient Status Right

This web seminar reviewed the rules and regulations that govern admission status and discussed various approaches that hospitals use to determine admission status for Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management procedures.

Original Presentation Date: December 12, 2007

Speaker: Dr. Joe Zebrowitz, MD, Executive Vice President, Senior Medical Director, EHR

PDF View WebEx slides (.pdf)
Download the audio (.wav, 126MB)

2008 Medicare OPPS Overview

This web seminar reviewed the OPPS Final Rule.

Original Presentation Dates: December 4 and 5, 2007

PDF View WebEx slides (.pdf)
Download the audio (.wav, 47MB)

CC/MCC Lookup Tool

Use this tool to search for CC and MCC diagnosis codes associated with the new Medicare MS-DRG payment structure.
Download the CC/MCC Lookup Tool (5MB Excel file)
Note: Please click "Enable Macros" when the file opens for the tool to work properly.

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