Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:

1. Distinguish the differences between outpatient and hospital services E/M guidelines
2. Understanding hospital services billing require all 3 components (history, exam, MDM)
3. When billing by time, services must be dominated by counseling/coordination of care
4. Critical Care requirements
5. Review split/shared guidelines and discussion on new charge capturing process
6. Review billing process for transferred patients

Faculty

Sherill Acevedo, CPC, CPC-1
Manager, BMP Revenue Integrity

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.  None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.