2024 Gastroenterology Reimbursement and Coding Update (Virtual) | November 2023-Agenda

Agenda_updated November 9th

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The 2024 Gastroenterology Reimbursement and Coding Update is a virtual course taking place on November 11, 2023. The course aims to provide participants with concrete solutions to strengthen their knowledge and skills in GI coding and billing. The agenda includes various sessions led by experts in the field.<br /><br />The course kicks off with a welcome and introductions from the course directors. This is followed by a session on breaking news, providing a 2024 preview and discussing current issues impacting GI practice, including updates on payer policies regarding endoscopy procedures.<br /><br />The agenda also includes sessions on E&M documentation guidelines and examples for medical decision making and time driven visits. There will be a break for questions and answers, followed by a session on the ongoing discussion of screening versus diagnostic colonoscopy.<br /><br />Other topics covered in the course include proper documentation for advanced endoscopy, ICD-10 and risk adjustment updates for 2024, coding for ancillary services, leading and teaching a coding team, auditing docs and APPs within a practice, the potential impact of AI on documentation, coding, and compliance, split-shared CMS guidelines and documentation requirements, top denials in GI and how to avoid them, perfecting proper documentation for medical necessity, commonly forgotten billable E&M services, electronic medical records, and the top coding questions received by ASGE in 2023.<br /><br />The day concludes with a roundtable discussion allowing participants to ask questions and discuss their priorities. The agenda is subject to change.

Keywords

2024 Gastroenterology Reimbursement and Coding Update

virtual course

GI coding

billing

payer policies

endoscopy procedures

E&M documentation guidelines

screening versus diagnostic colonoscopy

advanced endoscopy documentation

ICD-10 updates