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.