Billing Compliance and Chart Documentation CCA General Session, Radnor
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Billing Compliance and Chart Documentation – CCA General Session, Radnor Monday, March 24, 2014 6:00-8:00PM Penn Medicine @ Radnor Conf. Room 203
Nelvin ‘Venjie’ Largoza, MHA, CHC, CPC UPHS Office of Billing Compliance 3101 Market Street, Suite 160, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Target Audience This program has been designed for departmental/institutional faculty, fellows, residents, medical students, nurses, allied health professionals, community physicians, administrators for all medical specialties at HUP, PMC, and PAH.
Educational Objectives After completing this activity, participants should be able to: Increase awareness of government initiatives to combat fraud, waste, and abuse Discuss the importance of an effective compliance plan Describe how to recognize and produce properly documented medical records Improve documentation and reporting of evaluation and management visits, procedures, diagnostic services and or corresponding modifiers Illustrate the need for clear documentation of medical necessity and reporting diagnosis codes
Accreditation The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation of Credit The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Acknowledgement of Commercial Support* NONE
For more information, please contact Evelyn Francis [email protected]
Check your CME online at www.penncmeonline.com Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships and Unapproved Uses of Products
It is policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania for individuals who are in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose to the learners all relevant financial relationships that they have with any commercial interest that provides products or services that may be relevant to the content of this continuing medical education activity. For this purpose we consider relationships of the person involved in the CME activity to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.
The intent of this policy is not to prevent expert faculty with relevant relationship(s) with commercial interest(s) from involvement in CME, but rather to ensure that Penn CME-certified activities promote quality and safety, are effective in improving medical practice, are based on valid content, and are independent of control from commercial interests and free of commercial bias. Peer review of all content was conducted for all faculty presentations whose disclosure information provided to the Penn Office of CME was found to contain relationships that created a conflict of interest relative to the topic of their presentation. In addition, all faculty were instructed to provide balanced, scientifically rigorous and evidence-based presentations.
The staff in the Office of CME at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Mila Kostic, Director of CME and the peer reviewer Zalman Agus, MD, Associate Dean for CME, have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.
The following individuals have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity:
PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBER NAME ROBERT BACON, MHA NELVIN “VENJIE” LARGOZA, MHA, CHC CPC MARY CLONEY, MHA, CPC JAMES FLAHERTY, BS, CPC RONALD BARG, MD WILLIAM H. SHOFF, MD MARY MULHOLLAND, MHA, RN, CPCP SAMUEL PARRY, MD SUSAN CONVILLE, RHIA, CCS ANN MARIE HOLMES, BSN, RN, CPC KATHLEEN KILGARIF CAROL POHLIG, BSN, RN, CPC PRESENTER NAME ROBERT BACON, MHA NELVIN “VENJIE” LARGOZA, MHA, CHC CPC MARY CLONEY, MHA, CPC JAMES FLAHERTY, BS, CPC RONALD BARG, MD WILLIAM H. SHOFF, MD MARY MULHOLLAND, MHA, RN, CPCP SAMUEL PARRY, MD SUSAN CONVILLE, RHIA, CCS ANN MARIE HOLMES, BSN, RN, CPC KATHLEEN KILGARIF CAROL POHLIG, BSN, RN, CPC SINDHU SRINIVAS, MD
The following individuals have reported the listed relevant financial relationships with commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.
PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBER & SPEAKER NAME NAME OF COMMERCIAL INTEREST RELATIONSHIP Scott Manaker, MD, PhD Apnicure, Aetna, Pfizer, Novartis, Johnson & Johnson Consultant Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson Stock
Relevant Financial Relationships: Financial relationships are those relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received or expected
NO DISCLOSURE OF UNAPPROVED USES OF PRODUCTS