Strategies to Reduce Medicare Billing Errors

I. Medicare Denials Identifying the Top Denials Where Does Your Practice Stand?
A. Denial Reporting How to Utilize Internal and External Reporting
B. Top Claim Denials and How to Correct These in Your Practice
C. Understanding the Causes of the Top Errors
II. Practical Steps You Can Take to Reduce Denials
A. Getting Your Claim Paid the First Time How to Avoid the Most Common Reasons for Claim Denials
B. Do You Have the Right Staff and the Right Technology? Learn the Current and Future Trends
C. Understanding Proper Coding and the Use of Modifiers According to Medicare
D. Understand Why the Medicare Remittance Advice Is a Wealth of Information About Your Practice
III. You ve Identified Your Denials, Now What?
A. How Can You Legally Bill Medicare Patients for Denied Services? The Appropriate Use of the New ABN Form
B. How Important Is Provider Education and Staffing Education? Continuous Education Is Key to Staying on Top of Denials
C. What Is the Industry s Best Practices Relating to Denial Management? Benchmarking Yourself Against Your Peers