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Fall Urgent Care Conference
October 23-24, 2009 - Hyatt Regency DFW - Dallas, Texas

Four Urgent Care Specific Courses

Fall Urgent Care Conference

Why Attend the Fall Conference?

  • Great hotel rate of $145 per night
  • Tuition includes course materials, breakfasts, lunches and 2 receptions
  • Continuing medical education credits
  • Exhibit hall features 40-50 urgent care industry vendors
  • Convenient hotel location in a great city

Conference Information

 

Overall Schedule

Friday, October 23rd
7:00-8:00am - Registration & Breakfast
8:00-11:30am - Courses in Session (3 hours)
11:30am-12:30pm - Group Lunch
12:30-4:30pm - Courses in Session (3 hours)
4:30pm - Exhibit Hall Opens
5:00-6:30pm - Welcome Reception in Exhibit Hall

Saturday, October 24th
7:30-9:00am - Breakfast and Exhibit Hall Open
9:00-11:15 - Courses in Session (2 hours)
11:15am-1:00pm - Group Lunch & Exhibit Hall Open
1:00-4:30pm - Courses in Session (3 hours)
4:30pm - Exhibit Hall Opens
5:00-6:30pm - Farewell Reception in Exhibit Hall

Course Details - all courses run concurrently Friday and Saturday

The Fall Conference has 4 topic-intensive courses, each designed to be taken as a whole (vs. mix and match as in our Spring Convention) so you can focus your professional development.  Choose ONE of the following:

Comprehensive Clinic Startup - Agenda

Starting an urgent care center is just like opening a private practice, right?  Not exactly!  Negotiating contracts, picking a site, setting up your clinic, recruiting staff, marketing and billing correctly so you can keep running - all have issues specific to urgent care.  Learn from expers and industry veterans how to do it right.

  • Selecting & Obtaining the Right Site
  • Managed Care Contracts
  • Setting up an Effective and Efficient Clinic
  • Preparing for Staffing & Operations
  • Obtaining Financing *
  • Developing Policies and Procedures
  • Urgent Care Billing
  • Marketing Your Center

*For hospital-affiliated centers, we offer an alternative breakout session.

Faculty: Marc Salzberg, MD, FACEP, Steve Sellars, MBA, Patrice Pash, RN, BSN, COHC, Tammy Mallow-Ely, Kevin Ralofsky, Kenny Engel, CPC, CHC, ACS-EM, Stacy Calvaruso, CPAM, Alan Ayers, MBA, MAcc

The Best Medicine (for clinicians only) - Agenda

Medicine moves fast.  Staying on top of the latest techniques and literature is a challenge, especially in urgent care.  Your practice covers many illnesses and injuries, and is often the front line of critical diagnoses.  Stay sharp.

  • ENT Emergencies
  • Asthma Update
  • X-Ray Case Studies
  • EKG Case Studies
  • Acute Elbow Injuries
  • Acute Back Pain
  • Diarrhea in Children and Adults
  • Best of the Urgent Care Literature
  • Insects and the Skin
  • Injectable Medications
  • Prostatitis/Epidydimitis

Faculty:  Dr. Bruce Beavers, Dr. Terry Buzzard, Dr. Phillip Disraeli, Dr. William Gluckman, Dr. Tamara McGregor, Dr. Julia Nelson, Dr. Amer Shakil, Dr. Joseph Toscano, Dan Williams,PA-C

Understanding Urgent Care Coding (introductory course) - Agenda

Professional Coding is a discipline unto itself - but what makes urgent care coding diffferent? Demystify the basics of how to code for your urgent care center.  Learn why sometimes the correct answer is "it depends" - and what to do next!

  • Basic Fundamentals
  • ICD-9 Coding (and what about ICD-10?)
  • E/M Coding for history, physical exams, and complexity/decision making
  • E/M Coding:  Putting it All Together
  • Coding for Radiology, Lab, Ophthalmology
  • Fracture Care Coding
  • Using Modifiers
  • Coding Workshop - practice what you've learned with sample charts and expert consultation

UCAOA recommends you bring your ICD-9, CPT and HCPCS books with you to the course.

Faculty:  David Stern, MD, CPC, Kim Ramirez, CPC, CPC-I, CPC-H-I, MPC, Kenny Engel, CPC, CHC, ACS-EM, CCP-P, Kevin Solinsky, CPC, CPC-I, CPC-ED, Stacy Calvaruso, CPAM, Seth Canterbury, CPC

Specialized Urgent Care Coding (advanced course - perennial attendee discount)**
- Agenda

Proper coding is a basic necessity for any practice - but advanced knowledge and understanding of the uniqueness of urgent care practice can transform a good coder into the urgent care's most valuable asset.  For experienced coders only.

  • The Gray Areas of E/M Coding
  • Nature of Presenting Problem:  It Can Make or Break the Claim
  • E/M Intensive Workshops
  • Unique Urgent Care Codes
  • Integumentary Procedure Coding Challenges
  • J Codes for Medications
  • Coding Intravenous Infusions and Injections
  • Using Modifiers to Maximize E/M Reimbursement
  • ICD-9 Coding Challenges
  • Critical Care Coding Update
  • Killer Coding Conundrums Workshop

UCAOA recommends you bring your ICD-9, CPT and HCPCS books with you to the course.

**While the Basic Coding course is designed to be taken once, the Specialized/Advanced Coding course is new each time and designed for ongoing annual attendance.  "Perennial Attendees" (those who have come in the year(s) prior) receive a 15% discount.  If you are a Perennial Attendee, let us know when you register!

Faculty:  David Stern, MD, CPC, Kim Ramirez, CPC, CPC-I, CPC-H-I, MPC, Kenny Engel, CPC, CHC, ACS-EM, CCP-P, Kevin Solinsky, CPC, CPC-I, CPC-ED, Stacy Calvaruso, CPAM, Seth Canterbury, CPC

Tuition

Tuition for all courses is the same and includes printed course materials, breakfast, lunch and networking receptions, exhibit hall admission, continuing education credits:

 
Member
Non-Member
Thru Aug 28
$600
$700
Aug 29 - Sep 25
$700
$800
Sep 26 - Oct 20
$800
$900

 

Continuing Education Credit

Each program provides 11.5 hours of continuing education credit.  Additional details available soon regarding specific credits for physicians.

CEU's for Coding Professionals

This program has the prior approval of the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) for 11.5 continuing education hours. Granting of prior approval in no way constitues endorsement by the AAPC of the program content or the program sponsor.

 

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