Beyond understanding E&M guidelines for coding purposes, understanding how to benchmark E&M utilization is the key to developing advanced management strategies.
This Webinar goes beyond the “bell curve” concept, focusing on comparative metrics for inter-category (category to category) and global category (category to total) comparisons. Attendees will also learn about two cutting-edge methodologies: differential modeling, used to quantify the variance between the practice and any control group, and acuity factoring, used to standardize the Medicare bell curves for any payer mix.
Attendees will receive a complete tool box, including documentation, worksheets, templates, sample reports and all pertinent data files necessary to conduct a comprehensive E&M utilization analysis.
Following this 60-minuite Webinar, you will be able to
- Articulate the importance of E&M utilization
- Use comparative databases and statistics
- Measure inter- and global category utilization
- Normalize the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) database
- Describe differential modeling and acuity factoring
Date
- Recorded on Oct. 18, 2011
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Frank Cohen, MPA analyst, the Frank Cohen Group LLC, Clearwater, Fla.
Cohen is principal and senior analyst for The Frank Cohen Group, LLC. He is a certified Black Belt in Six Sigma and a certified Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma.
As a consultant and researcher, his areas of expertise include data mining and analysis, predictive modeling, applied statistics and evidencebased decision support. Cohen is the author of several books, including his newest, Lean Six Sigma for the Medical Practice: Improving Profits by Improving Processes. Cohen has participated in and published numerous articles and studies, and trained thousands of certified public accountants, physicians, administrators and other healthcare professionals in the techniques used to conduct comprehensive medical practice analyses.
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