23rd Annual MGMA-NWMO Symposium 5.25 CEUs per Track Awarded

Track 1 Managers Track 2 Coders

MGMA-Northwest Missouri 1105 NE Westwind Drive, Lees Summit, MO 64086

info@mgma-nwmo.com 816-806-1838 www.mgma-nwmo.com

Track 1 - Manager - 1:00-2:30pm (1 hr 30 min)

Learning PointsUnderstand filters (your brain tape recorder) and be more confident • about who you are as a leader

Learn 4 EASY communication steps to giving feedback…the good, the • bad and the ugly

Cultivate creative problem-solving techniques...like brainstorming 26 • new ideas in 2 minutes

Learn to STOP treating people like YOU want to be treated and treat • them like THEY want to be treated

You will leave with a changed attitude by understanding that people • are not difficult, they are just different…It Takes 4 To Tango!

2 Sessions in 1 with Candy Whirley

Emotional IntelligenceIt Takes 4 To Tango

EXPERIENCED -- Candy brings ‘real world’ ex-perience from many industries including: training, retail, customer service (certified by International Customer Service Association – ICSA), restaurant, entertainment, management, youth ministry and business owner. Candy has been speaking over 25 years and has owned SBG Services, LLC for 15 years. She has spoken nationally and internation-ally. Some clients include Harvesters International South Sudan Africa, Million Dollar Round Table, SHRM, International Society of Association Execu-tives, GE, Hallmark Cards, Inc., AgStar Financial and Johns Hopkins Medical Center.

INVOLVED -- Candy is involved with the Na-tional Speakers Association (NSA)...she is cur-rently on the NSA Chapter Leadership Committee. She has also served on the Board of Directors and was the 2007-08 President of the NSA Kansas City Chapter.

SMART -- Graduated Cum Laude from Missouri Western State University with a B.S. Degree in Speech Communications and Human Relations Emphasis, and has earned her Master’s in Man-agement at the University of Phoenix.

ENTERTAINER -- You may recognize Candy, she is a former Kansas City Chiefs Chiefette! With Candy’s entertainment background her keynotes and general sessions are more of an interactive and engaging EXPERIENCE than a presentation.

In It Takes 4 To Tango, Candy has two meanings when it comes to her ”4″. The first meaning... she will take you through her 4 C’s of Leadership which are the importance of Confidence, Communication, Creativity and Change in the workplace, the second meaning…you will go on a brilliant exploration of personality styles that will make you think, laugh, even dance…and recognize your true self and others. This is NOT the Myers Briggs Personality Indica-tor, this is NOT the DISC test or even True Colors…Candy gets participants up and out of their seats and networking with other…ANIMALS (Chameleon, Lion, Lamb or Owl) just like them! This is an open and honest way for all the personalities to hear from one another about how to communicate better with other Animals, how to motivate them and which ANIMAL drives them the craziest and why…WITHOUT A TEST!

You’ll also learn to overcome personality differences that lead to prob-lems like communication breakdown, negotiation letdown, and delegation fall-down by learning the secrets to connecting and partnering with other personality styles.

People leave understanding how to treat people like THEY want to be treated and recognize that people are not difficult, they are just different.

Kathryn AyersWickenhauser

Knock MACRA Out of the Park: What You Need to Know To Champion MIPS

Track 1 - Managers - 8:15 - 9:30am (1 hr 15 min)

As the Regulatory Compliance Advisor at DataFile Technologies, Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, MBA, CHTS, is a sought after speaker, trainer, consultant and thought leader on a broad range of topics. A passion to assist providers and their organiza-

tions through healthcare reform hurdles, she’s coached more than 3,000 providers to earn in excess of $45 million in government healthcare incentives and avoid more than $20 million in costly financial penalties. Additionally, in light of recent Meaningful Use Audits, Kathryn has coached nearly 50 providers of varying specialties through successful responses to their corresponding Audits and retaining their MU funds. Prior to joining DataFile, Kathryn had first-hand experience in ambulatory practices, medical research set-tings and providing user training for EHR systems. Because of her varied background, Kathryn has unique knowledge about modern healthcare challenges.

This session will review how the MACRA legislation and how the quality data metrics will impact pro-vider reimbursement, and soon!

Learning PointsWhy MACRA and quality data is critical to your fu-• ture reimbursement

If Merit-based Incentive Payment Systems (MIPS) or • Advanced Payment Models (APM) is a better path for your practice

How MACRA plans to combine and replace prior Pay-• for-Performance programs under MIPS

What you can do now to prepare for a 1/1/2017 • Reporting Period

Richelle MartingTrack 1 - Managers - 10:30-12:00 Noon (1 hr 30 min)

In this session, critical updates from the last several fee schedules will be reviewed, covering reimburse-ment opportunities and limitations.

Learning PointsNewly released changes proposed in the 2017 fee • schedule

Medicare’s elimination of 10- and 90- day global periods•

Changes to payment for preventive health services•

Critical guidance on incident-to billing•

Which services Medicare has expanded for coverage • as telehealth

Payment requirements for chronic care management•

Fee Schedule UpdatesReimbursement Opportunities Your Practice Can’t Afford to Miss

Richelle focuses her practice on regulatory compliance and healthcare reimbursement. She has administrative and compli-ance experience in the long term care, ambulatory surgery, medi-cal group, and private practice settings with multi-specialty pro-viders. She is a Registered Health Information Administrator and certified professional coder with first-hand knowledge of the legal and practical reimbursement structures for govern-ment and private payors, and has assisted multiple provid-ers in the planning, configuration, and implementation of electronic medical records. Richelle has prepared successful appeals for WPS, RAC, and private payor claim denials, au-dits, and reimbursement disputes and educates providers on appropriate documentation and coding practices. Richelle has served as an expert in both privacy and reimburse-ment litigation matters, received national awards from the American Health Information Management Association and Health Information and Management Systems Society, and is active in local professional associations.

Patrick Rademaker

Hotel Block Reserved for Symposium Guests

A block of rooms is reserved for October 4 at Holiday Inn Kansas City Airport for discount rate of $99.00 per night until deadline of September 13, 2016.

Register by calling 1-800-957-4654 and mention the block code “MGM”.

BOOKING CODE LINK:http://www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/us/en/kansas-city/mkccr/hoteldetail

Oneline Registering:Once at the Holiday Inn KCI website, select arrival and departure dates.

Then scroll down to Have A Group Code? Type in the code MGM. Rate should be at Best Available, then hit Check Availability. Call with any questions.

Holiday Inn Kansas City Airport Address: 11728 N. Ambassador Drive, Kansas City MO

5.25 ACMPE CEU’s for Track 1 Managers

5.25 AAPC CEU’s for Track 2 Coders

Special thanks to Sherry Wright-Fontenot of AAPC of KC for coordinating speakers for Track 2. Symposium topics do not duplicate any sessions from the summer AAPC of KC event.

In this hour long session to end our day, we will discuss

the characteristics of a great leader•

how to develop the leader within you, and •

what your team expects from you as a leader•

Learning Points• You don’t need the title to be a leader

• Characteristics of great leaders

• Manger versus leader

• How to develop the leader that is within you

• What your team and peers expect from a leader

Pat is the Business Develop-ment Leader at TSI-A Trans-world Systems Company for over 17 years. TSI is the indus-try leader offering innovative patient collection strategies. TSI helps over 20,000 medical practices reduce their internal and external collection costs, reduce their bad debt write offs while maintaining the relationship for the practice with their patients.

He is two-times TSI District Manager of the Year for Central Division and national finalist, TSI Above and Beyond Award winner, TSI Medical Sales Mentor Captain to team of 30 sales professionals, Top 10% in sales revenue at TSI, Business Proc-ess Improvement Expert, and Past Business Partner Board Member with Medical Group Management Association of Greater Kansas City.

Pat has dedicated seven years coaching and teaching life lessons to our future leaders on the baseball field.

LEADERSHIP Excellence!

Track 1 - 3:30 - 4:30pm (1 hour)

Sherry Wright-Fontenot

Coding Chronic Conditions:Cardio, Diabetes & CKD

Track 2 - Coders - 10:30-12:00 Noon (1 hr 30 min)

Cathy Jennings

Learning PointYou walk away with a basic understanding of ICD-10-• CM and know some of the pitfalls to avoid.

Track 2 - Coders - 8:15 - 9:30am (1 hr 15 min)

This session will cover the basics of ICD-10-CM and what you need to know to get started with diagnosis coding. We’ll look at a brief history of ICD-10-CM, the process of changes and annual updates, the im-portance of diagnosis codes, finding codes, and some commonly misunderstood coding guidelines.

Cathy is a CPC, CEDC, CHONC, CAPM, BS, AHIMA, Approved Trainer ICD-10-CM/PCS, Man-aging Consultant , Medical Revenue Solutions

Cathy came to MRS with more than 20 years of experience in healthcare. Over the years she has worked with a multi-tude of hospitals and physician groups allowing her to identify best practices and bring them forward into engagements with new clients. Cathy’s breadth of experience encompasses family practice, internal medicine, laboratory/pathology, hematology/oncology, emergency medicine, and outpatient facility coding. In addition to her CPC credential, she holds coding certifica-tions in emergency medicine and hematology/oncology. She’s a compliance professional, AHIMA Approved ICD-10 trainer as well as a certified coding instructor through the AAPC. Cathy holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Kansas. She was the 2013 local chapter president for the Kansas City chapter of AAPC and has been active in the chapter for many years.

ICD-10 CMTHE BASICS

Chronic conditions are one thing to code but what about multiple chronic conditions? Although it may seem impossible, we will make it fun! We will review sequencing rules for conditions such as diabetes mellitus, congestive heart failure, kidney disease, and heart disease to name a few. This presentation will provide information for those unfamiliar with ICD 10 and the experienced coder.

Sherry Wright-Fontenot, CPC CPCO CPMA CEDC, has over 25 years experience in health care coding and compliance. She is

currently a Coding Compliance Coordinator with Saint Luke’s Health System where her focus has been compliance audit and provider education for all specialties. She has written core education for Advance Practitioners and is a regular speaker at St Luke’s College of Nursing on coding and docu-mentation. She is active in the AAPC of KC Chapter- currently the Education Chairman. She enjoys all kinds of music, her grandson Benjamin, her great dane Hosmer and competing in BBQ contests.

Sarah Reed

Bradford Carney

Track 2 - 3:30 - 4:30pm (1 hour)

Billing & Coding Tidbits for Not Leaving $$ on the Table

Sarah Reed, BSE, CPC, CPC-I brings over 35 years of expe-rience in Healthcare to the Medical Revenue Solutions, LLC (MRS) consulting team. The majority of her career has been spent in administrative roles in both academic and private practice settings. Over the years, Sarah’s primary interests have centered on coding compliance, auditing, and education for physicians and staff. Prior to coming on board with MRS, Sarah was an influential member of an audit team for over 15 multi-specialty practices in the Kansas City area. Sarah is currently a Senior Managing Consultant for Medical Revenue Solutions, LLC, and a member of the WPS Medicare Physician Advisory Board (POE-AG), where she acts as a liaison between physicians and Medicare. Sarah is also a certified coding instructor through the AAPC. Sarah has developed her own personal mission statement which represents her desire to help educate and grow new coders. Learn…Teach…Grow…

Coding from the Manager’s Perspective

Track 2 - Coders - 1:00-2:30pm (1 hr 30 min)

Managers and Coders usually know how valuable a Cer-tified Professional Coder is to an organization. In case there’s any doubt this presentation will provide a more in-depth insight as to how intricately interwoven the man-ager and coder positions and responsibilities are.

Learning Points:Recognize the six primary bodies of knowledge/responsi-• bilities of a Manager

Realize that a Coder impacts, either directly or indirectly, • much of the Manager’s work

Retain an understanding that by working together Coders • and Managers build a much stronger practice

This presentation will take a look at areas of coding and packaging of charges that seem to be obvious but can really be looked at in several different ways.

Learning PointsReview some of the more uncommon coding situations.•

Create skills and an environment by which a coder or staff • member can feel comfortable requesting additional infor-mation or clarification.

Create an understanding for the coder to know that • researching and providing information to the practice is positive and necessary.

Create an interest in the coder to continue educating • themselves with ancillary and additional information nec-essary to perform their job in a professional manor.

Brad began his health care career in 2009 after over 20 years in business manage-ment and accounting when he accepted the Office Manager position at Northland Internal

Medicine. Brad led the office through the transition from private practice to hospital owned; implementing an EMR system; and achieving NCQA Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home. In May of 2014 Brad was awarded the Missouri Medical Group Managers Associa-tion’s (MGMA) Manager of the Year award. He earned Certified Professional Coder credentials in June 2014 and Certified Medical Practice Executive in October of 2015. Brad currently serves on the board of directors of MGMA-Missouri, MGMA-Northwest Missouri and AAPC-KC. Outside of medical world he enjoys spending time with his wife, 2 sons and 1 grandson. He spends what time he can in rural Missouri with other family and likes to cook, inside or out.

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to a $75 cancellation fee.

Hotel Room Reservations A block of rooms has been reserved for October 4 at Holiday Inn Kansas City

Airport for $99 per night until Tuesday, September 13, 2016.Address: 11728 N. Ambassador Drive, Kansas City MO.

Register by calling 1-800-957-4654 noting block code “MGM” by September 13.

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KCI Expo CenterWednesday

October 5, 2016 7:30 am - 5:00 pm5.25 CEUs Per Track

MGMA-Northwest Missouri“Champions of Excellence”

Wednesday, October 5, 2016KCI Expo Center

23rd Annual Symposium