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Revenue Cycle Institute announces ‘Medicare Compliance Forum: A Strategic Approach to RACs, Observation Status and the Role of Physician Advisors’

By Andrea Kraynak, CPC-A

The Revenue Cycle Institute is bringing its three biggest Medicare compliance educational offerings together in one huge event!

The “Medicare Compliance Forum: A Strategic Approach to RACs, Observation Status and the Role of Physician Advisors” will be held October 26-27, 2009, at the Westin Buckhead Atlanta.

The one and a-half day seminar is comprised of three hot button tracks that will provide solutions to today’s toughest regulatory challenges:

• The Recovery Audit Contractor program
• Observation status
• Physician advisors: Highly customized sessions for physician advisors to learn key aspects of Medicare compliance. New this year!

Attendees sign up for one track and get all three!

This one-of-a-kind seminar is designed to provide the most comprehensive and uniquely-tailored experience. The Medicare Compliance Forum provides three distinguished tracks:

• RAC Track: Defend your organization from RAC takebacks. This track will provide you with the critical strategies and helpful tools direct from professionals who have been through the demonstration project and are ready to take on the permanent program. No more boring overviews-Get something tangible you can take back to your organization. Get tried-and-true recommendations and valuable tools to help you and your team be prepared when RACs head your way.
• Observation Status Track: Know the rules of engagement. The challenge of properly classifying a patient as observation or inpatient affects both the clinical and financial success of a hospital. Our distinguished speakers hail from administrative, compliance, financial, and clinical backgrounds to bring you an exceptionally well-rounded program designed to help you master one-day stays and observation status.
• Physician Advisor Track: Understand the Medicare regulations that affect physician advisors. Physician Advisors and their organizations need to work together to reduce risk and protect revenue. This track features interactive sessions to educate physician advisors, VPMAs, and other professionals on RACs, observation status, pay for performance, and other important Medicare regulations. Attendees will also learn the skills and qualities and roles and responsibilities of an effective physician advisor.

Sign up for one track and you can pick and choose which sessions to attend from any of the tracks. Plus, attendees will receive all the materials to take back from every session, every track.

Click here to find out more about the 2009 Medicare Compliance Forum.