Webinar: Participating or Not-Participating on Medical Insurance?

Participating or Not-Participating on Medical Insurance?

https://secure.confertel.net/tsregister.asp?course=553105

▪ Pro’s and Con’s on participating or not-participating on medical community
▪ Understanding in network, out of network or participating with Medicare
▪ Forms needed wither you participate or not on medical arena
▪ Documenting the claim form for maximum payment

Speaker:Christine Taxin has over 20 years as a practice management professional. Her passion for communication, team training, vision and goal setting has helped many practices meet their potential and increase their profitability. She specializes in moving offices towards the medical dental community and she has lectured extensively on this subject, including insurance cross-code billing. Her presentations are lively and informative with positive feedback.

Christine is a proud member of Speakers Consulting Network, American Association of Dental Office Managers, Academy of Dental Management Consultants, NDEDIC (Electronic Notes, Billing) and International Association of Comprehensive Aesthetics. She also teaches at New York Dental School as an adjunct professor.

Guest Speaker: Steve Holloway

There is a relatively small segment of leaders in the business world; individuals who seem able to build relationships, trust, and rapport with almost anyone, and then are able to broker the relationships and make connections between people, creating partnerships and alliances, and motivating forward momentum to ‘get things done.’ Steve Holloway is one of those people, and ‘getting things done’ and driving results-through collaboration, partnerships, and relationships-as a senior manager in the healthcare industry, is what he is all about. With an enthusiastic and genuinely friendly attitude, Steve radiates a sincere passion for delivering value and benefits to his customers. A Certified Professional Coder and Health Information Manager by training, Steve went on to earn his B.S. in Health Information Management, and spent the past four years as director of Billing and New Business Development for Health Claims Unlimited Inc., and a contract HEIDS/RADV/HIPAA auditor. Throughout it all, Steve has repeatedly proven his ability to lead through diverse and challenging situations and multiple heath care reform implementations. Steve is nationally recognized as an expert in getting results for his clients when dealing with Medicare and private insurance payers. He is an excellent agent of change and has a documented track record of accomplishments that include the turnaround of chaotic and struggling medical provider operations; start-up and management of new healthcare providers; creation and launch of new and improved technology for clinical operational programs; and the growth and expansion of mature, established operations. He has been overheard to say “Life owes you success; all you have to do is go out and collect it”.

Date: Monday, May 14, 2012
Time: 8:00PM(Eastern)/7:00PM(Central)/6:00PM(Mountain)/5:00PM(Pacific)
Duration: 1 hour

Christine Taxin speaking at NY County Dental Society – Advanced Methods for Insurance Claim Collections / Maximize Practice Revenue by Understanding Billing

Advanced Methods for Insurance Claim Collections / Maximize Practice Revenue by Understanding Billing – New York County Dental Society, NY – New York County Dental Society6 East 43rd Street, 11th floor, New York, NY 10017 – October 4, 2012 (9:30am – 4:00pm). To register, please contact Susan Apsley on: 212.573.9816

Christine Taxin speaking at NY County Dental Society on August 15, 2012.

Advance Dental Billing – New York County Dental Society, NY – New York County Dental Society6 East 43rd Street, 11th floor, New York, NY 10017 – August 15, 2012. To register, please contact Susan Apsley on: 212.573.9816

Christine Taxin speaking at NYU – Moving Implants into the Medical Necessity Module (6 CE)

Moving Implants into the Medical Necessity Module (6 CE) – NYU, Rosenthal Center – June 6, 2012. To register, visit www.nyu.edu/dental/ce, email dentalcde@nyu.edu, or call 212.998.9757

Christine Taxin speaking at Connecticut State Meeting – Accounts Receivable Tools and Tricks / How To Create and Stick To a Budget. It Doesn’t Have To Be Painful! / Revolutionize Dentistry: Add the Health/Medical Dimension to Your Practice

Accounts Receivable Tools and Tricks / How To Create and Stick To a Budget. It Doesn’t Have To Be Painful! / Revolutionize Dentistry: Add the Health/Medical Dimension to Your Practice – Connecticut State Meeting -May 9-10, 2012

Christine Taxin speaking at Greater Long Island Dental Meeting – Accounts Receivable Tools & Tricks / Medical Billing Skills / Overhead Tied to Business

Accounts Receivable Tools & Tricks – 8:30 am to 11:30 am / Medical Billing Skills – 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm / Overhead Tied to Business – 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm – Greater Long Island Meeting – April 18 (Huntington Hilton – 598 Broadhollow Rd. Route 110 Melville, NY 11747) http://www.glidm.org/courselisting.html

Beginning and Advanced Medical Dental Cross Coding

A solution to increased production and collections in your practice are often benefits that are available under the patient’s medical plan for services that are considered medical. Oral Surgeons have been billing medical for a long time with great success, if billed properly. Patients want to receive the care they need to stay healthy, but payment is an issue. Helping the practice bill medical is a way to help open up another entire maximum (benefit dollars) for the patient to take advantage of, and allows you to start working with physicians in many areas of medicine.

Course Objective:

• Establish knowledge of dental billing
• Establish knowledge of medical billing
• Review current patient health history
• Discuss health education theories and principles as applied to patients
• Discuss recent patient health education developments & links from oral to body

Course Outcome:

• Demonstrate how to communicate and evaluate health information with patient to provide medical coverage
• Understand the why you can bill medical
• What can be billed medical
• Discuss working with their medical provider and medical insurance

Revolutionize Your Practice by Becoming a Dental/Medical Center

The most recent and compelling research demonstrates a clear connection between periodontal disease and many of modern medicine’s most troublesome diseases, including heart attack, stroke, pregnancy complications, diabetes, and cancer, among others. Periodontal disease is known to increase levels of systemic inflammation. Proper treatment of periodontal disease has been shown to reduce these risk factors.

The Perio/Systemic connection promises to revolutionize dentistry by adding the health/medical dimension to your practice. As periodontal disease is probably man’s most prevalent disease, it presents a unique opportunity for dentists to deliver a necessary, valuable and profitable service. Dentists can now protect their patients from dangerous medical conditions, generate quality referrals from physicians, and add a sizeable amount of new production every month.

Learning Objectives:
• Optimize clinical results through treatment designs, by adding technology such as laser, DNA, Diabetic, and CRP testing
• Working with multiply insurance companies
• Learning what is a medical necessity

Outcome:
• Increase the number of patient who will accept treatment
• Adding new procedures to your daily production and collection
• Increase your coding skills, both dental and medical
• Increase your treatment planning with third party dollars
• Adding a new referral source of medical providers will increase your value to community

Dollars And Cents

If you examine your patient demographics carefully, you will find that a number of patients have chronic conditions. While you will not get paid more for office visits, you can still increase your revenue by using add on codes that work in conjunction with office visit codes. Typically, our diagnosis for patients becomes routine, which leaves out the diagnostic testing we can add to our visits. By adding these treatments not only can we bill additional services, but move our practice into the medical world.

What to include as new services:

Will depend on what vision you establish, and the types of treatments you and your team are able to treatment plan. Having the ability to work with new types of equipment, (soft tissue laser, 2¬¬-3 Scans, implants, sleep apnea appliances, caries detection and periodontal treatments will allow you into the new world.

Objective:
• What treatments can you consider adding? Sleep/TMD/Periodontal
• What new technology can you add to your office?
• Electronic Billing is here to stay, skills to increase your knowledge

Outcome:
• Learn what technology you can add to increase your production.
• Learn the coding to provide correct insurance information for patient rebate
• Working with medical insurance to increase your accepted treatment plans
• Payments from multiply insurance companies

Maximize Practice Revenue

Efficient Practice Profile

Working within a system to set up your private fee’s and maintain records to reflect what you are writing off and why. Understanding your relationship with insurance companies to better reflect maximum rebates for treatment you recommend. Negotiate with Insurance companies for fee’s that are reflected by your practice address.

Objective:

1. Understand how fee’s are set by zip code
2. Using codes to set goals for each provider while utilizing your computer to track them
3. Working with insurance companies to maximize patients recommended treatment and fee’ that will reflect maximum rebates.

Outcome:

1. Setting up your fee’s by zip code and % that your office address reflects
2. Learning how to provide a mixture of treatment daily to better reflect the goals you set
3. Maximize the codes you are not using correctly
4. Learn the questions to ask insurance companies, understand their rules
5. What state rules do you need to follow, and how to help change them.

Skills in communicating with patients and insurance companies that will increase treatment acceptance