APMA Coding Seminar
Thursday, January 18, 2023
7:30am – 8:00am |
Registration on site opens |
8:00am – 8:45am |
Compliant Routine Foot Care Documentation & Coding Jeffrey Lehrman, DPM, CPC |
8:45am – 9:00am |
Q&A |
9:00am – 9:45am |
Audit! A Real, Live E&M Audit Jeffrey Lehrman, DPM, CPC |
9:45am – 10:00am |
Q&A |
10:00am – 10:15am |
Break |
10:15am – 10:45am |
Audit! A Real, Live Routine Foot Care Audit Jeffrey Lehrman, DPM, CPC |
10:45am – 11:00am |
Q&A |
11:00am – 11:15am |
Skin Substitute Policy Update Jeffrey Lehrman, DPM, CPC |
11:15am – 11:35am |
Surgical Treatment of Nails Policy Update Jeffrey Lehrman, DPM, CPC |
11:35am – 11:55am |
Coding Changes for 2024 You Need to Know Jeffrey Lehrman, DPM, CPC |
11:55am – 12:10pm |
Q&A |
12:10pm – 1:10pm |
Lunch |
1:10pm – 2:10pm |
2024 DME Update Paul Kesselman, DPM |
2:10pm – 2:30pm |
Nail Debridement + Callus Paring Policy Jeffrey Lehrman, DPM, CPC |
2:30pm – 2:45pm |
Q&A |
2:45pm – 3:00pm |
Break |
3:00pm – 3:45pm |
CTP and Other Wound Care Updates Paul Kesselman, DPM |
3:45pm – 4:00pm |
Q&A |
4:00pm |
Adjournment |
Educational Objectives
At the conclusion of this program, attendees will be able to:
- List four procedure codes associated with the provision of routine foot care;
- Differentiate between nail debridement and nail trimming;
- Cite New York’s Medicare Administrative Contractor;
- Cite New Jersey’s Medicare Administrative Contractor;
- List the class findings associated with routine foot care;
- Define “dystrophic”;
- Define “episode of care” as it relates to wound care;
- List three examples of “conservative” wound care;
- Differentiate between nail avulsion and nail excision;
- List two reasons why it may be medically necessary to repeat a toenail avulsion on the same toe in under eight months;
- Repeat the AMA CPT Editorial Panel definition of “bunionectomy”;
- List two lower extremity applications of noncontact near-infrared spectroscopy;
- List the bones that constitute the hallux interphalangeal joint;
- List two potential locations of pre-ulcerative toe calluses that are not on the distal phalanx;
- List two examples of “moderate” risk as it applies to evaluation and management coding; and
- Differentiate between “acute” and “chronic” as those terms apply to evaluation and management coding.