8:30 – 9:00 am

Registration and Breakfast

9:00 – 9:15 am

Updates and Announcements

Patrick McDonough, MAPAM President

 9:15 – 10:15 am

Modifier Madness, Let’s get this right!

Julie Hall, iRi (Integrated Revenue Integrity)

Julie will review commonly misunderstood modifiers used on hospital and physician claims.  This session will provide guidance and examples on how to use modifiers correctly and compliantly.

 10:15 – 11:15 am

Price Transparency

Julie Gerdeman, HealthPay24

You’ve published your prices on your facility’s web site.  Now what?  In this presentation, Julie walks you through the CMS price transparency guidelines and gives you ideas for ways to use price transparency as a competitive advantage for your facility.

11:15 – 11:30 am

Break

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Bridging the Gap between Prior Authorizations/Referrals Administratively and Clinically

Stephanie Wilson, Baystate Health

12:30 – 1:15 pm

Lunch Discussion and Networking

Discussion Topic: “The pros and cons of staff working from home”

1:15 – 2:15  pm

“You Denied My Claim/Appeal for WHAT?!?!?!” Ten Insane Denials & How Your Team Can Leverage What I Learned to Get Paid

Dennis Scott, PV Kent & Associates

As a licensed attorney, Dennis has seen pretty much every reason under the sun that a claim or appeal might be denied.  In this session, he takes the lessons learned from those denials to help your team learn how to overcome any obstacle in the path to getting paid.