Billing FOR busy doctors BY a busy doctor

Benefits:

  • Bill confidently and prevent billing downgrades.

  • Spend less time writing notes.

  • Prevent and protect yourself from lawsuits.

  • Receive 3.5 hours of CME Credit.

This course is ideal for:

  • Inpatient attending physicians

  • NP’s and PA’s who bill E/M services

  • Senior / graduating residents

What’s inside?

Introduction

  • Understand the 6 major problems with current documentation habits

  • Learn what most misunderstand with notes

The four purposes

  • Understand the 4 purposes of documentation

  • Learn how notes CAN prevent lawsuits (a common misconception)

Professional Billing

  • Test your knowledge with 10 pre-test questions

  • Understand how to use the MDM chart and how to satisfy billing with only a few words

  • Understand time-based billing and split / shared billing`

Making the HPI work for you

  • Learn how the HPI can you help you stay organized, prevent medical errors and prevent lawsuits

  • Download my H&P Playbook!

The (Truthful and Useful) Physical Exam

  • Learn how the documented physical exam can make you a better doctor and protect you in case of litigation

  • Learn how to use the physical exam to prevent insurances from denying payment to you and your hospital

Labs and Radiology Reports

  • Learn what you really need to include in the labs / radiology section to help you write notes faster, bill properly, and reduce your legal risk

The Assessment. And the Plan.

  • The biggest bang for your buck: Learn how to format your A&P to be efficient while reducing medical errors and reducing legal risk

The crowd-sourced discharge summary

  • Learn the secrets behind my discharge summary format that has PCP’s telling me “THANK YOU!”

  • Learn about the most overlooked aspect of discharge summaries.

So. Many. Examples. Good and Bad

  • 30 minutes of me breaking down good and bad notes

The Full Curriculum:

Lesson 1: Introduction and Current Problems with Documentation

Lesson 2: The Four Purposes of Clinical Documentation

Lesson 3: Professional Billing

  • Pretest + What is Professional Billing

  • 2021 / 2023 Guideline Updates and the new MDM Chart

  • MDM Problems Column

  • MDM Data Column

  • MDM Risk Column

  • The Billing Timeout

  • Medical Necessity

  • Time-Based Billing

  • Split / Shared Billing

  • PB Examples

  • Review of Pre-Test Answers

Lesson 4: Take a break and a quick note

Lesson 5: Making the HPI work for you

Lesson 6: The Truthful (and useful) Physical Exam

Lesson 7: Labs and Radiology Reports

Lesson 8: The A&P

  • The Power and Perils of copy / paste

  • The Assessment. And the Plan

Lesson 9: The Crowd-sourced Discharge Summary

Lesson 10: So. Many. Examples. (Good and Bad)

Lesson 11: A favor, an offer and your CME Certificate!

CME Details

3.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits

CME certificate automatically emailed upon survey completion at end of course

Original Release: April 20, 2024

Next scheduled Review: April 20, 2026

Expiration Date: April 20, 2027