Webinar
PREPARING FOR CMS RAC AUDITS:
Minimize Your RAC Losses; Maximize Your Quality of Care
Hospitals face many challenges to delivering high quality of care in today's tough economic climate. Now you face a new challenge...
RAC audits have already corrected more than $1 billion in improper Medicare payments. The corresponding bounty for RAC auditors amounts to more than $200 million. They are highly motivated to stake their next claim in your hospital. You need to be prepared to fight this onslaught - with proactive defenses and appeals strategies – to keep your potential losses to a minimum.
Join us for this free Webinar to learn first-hand, from an industry expert in revenue cycle management and medical records audits. Through this session, you will learn how to do the following:
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Assess the scope of your financial risk created by the RAC program |
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Determine the best processes for responding to medical record requests; |
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How to appeal RAC determinations; |
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Align your staff to move quickly and avoid automatic recoupment of payments |
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Understand and mitigate potential compliance risk areas |
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Proactively show audit contractors there is little opportunity to pad their bounty in your hospital |
Date: Thursday,
August 21, 2008
Time: 2:00 - 3:00PM ET
Speaker:
Day Egusquiza
HFMA National Advisory Council
President, AR Systems, Inc.
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About the Presenter:
Day Egusquiza brings over 28 years experience in health care reimbursement, hospital business office operations, contracting and compliance implementation. Additionally, her experience includes eight years as a Director of a Physician Medical Management billing service and most recently completed an integrated business office between a hospital and a large physician clinic. She has been an entrepreneur in hospital and physician practice accounts receivable management and a leader in redesigning numerous organizations. Her work includes providing guidance as a compliance and APC educator while providing operational insight on the revenue cycle impacts of HIPAA. Additionally, she has been instrumental in researching and preparing national education on the impact of the Prescription Drug Benefit to hospitals and nursing homes.
Ms. Egusquiza is a nationally recognized speaker on continuous quality improvement (CQI), benchmarking, redesigning, reimbursement systems and implementing an operational focus of compliance- both in hospitals and practices. She has been on the AAHAM National Advisory Council, HFMA National Advisory Council, HFMA faculty, CCH Reimbursement Advisory board and is a past President of the Idaho HFMA Chapter &; recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award. She has been highlighted in JCAHO's Six Hospitals in Search of Excellence, Zimmerman's Receivable Report, HFMA's HFM and Patient Account, AHIA Prospective, and numerous healthcare newsletters along with a contributing author to 2006 Health Law and Compliance Update. She received the Idaho Hospital Association Distinguished Service Award; for her legislative work and training on new indigent law. Attendees at HFMA's ANI rated her in the top 25%, earning her the 'Distinguished' Speaker recognition for each year she has presented.
Additional RAC Seminar Sponsored by Compliance 360, Inc.
Join the AR Systems faculty as we teach “Consumerism in Patient Financial Services” with the added bonus of AR Systems, Inc.’s RAC Attack classes. The pre-conference is offered for individuals/leaders who may be new to healthcare and are looking for a patient-financial services 101 class. The pre-conference is followed by 2 days of operational-focused education which will give you practical education and tools that you can immediately implement at your facility.
2008 Locations and Dates:
- St. Louis, MO: Sept 21-23
- Atlanta, GA: Oct 12-14
- Baltimore, MA: Nov 2-4
- Phoenix, AZ: Dec 14-16
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