• Everyday Coding™: Transform Confusion to Clarity in E/M Services
• Everyday Coding™ Problems: Solutions and Answers
• Path to Profitability in Physician Practices
• Hospitalists and Intensivists: Everyday Coding™ Rules and Tools
• From Required to Desired: How your compliance auditor can be your hero
• Everyday Coding™ Prevention: how to bill and code for preventive medicine services

Betsy Nicoletti is available to speak on many physician practice management topics. Listed below are outlines from some of her most popular presentations. If you would like to invite Betsy to speak at your meeting, conference or seminar, please fill out our information request form, or call Betsy at 802.885.5641.

We also invite you to view a list of Betsy's recent and upcoming speaking engagements.

New: Listen to Nancy Collins interview Betsy about how to build a consulting business in this podcast. Nancy is the publisher of the Journal of Medical Practice Management and founder of Soundpractice.net.

Everyday Coding™: Transform Confusion to Clarity in E/M Services

Evaluation and Management services comprise a large percentage of physician services by volume and dollar value. The guidelines that physicians, Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants must use to select these codes are complicated. Do your providers feel confident about the level of service they bill? Are you losing revenue due to fear of coding? Do you worry about whether you are complying with the guidelines and billing correctly? Ask Betsy to present to your group. After attending this program, one physician wrote: "Comprehensive, well organized, good tips, great speaker." Another wrote, "Good detail: clear and concise explanations of complex guidelines. Real world focused." If you want to turn confusion to clarity, schedule this program today.

Everyday Coding™ Problems: Solutions and Answers

There are some coding questions and problems that providers ask day after day. How do I bill for pre-op clearance? Should I use modifier 51 or 59? Can a Nurse Practitioner see a new patient? What do I need to document to bill a consult? Can I be paid to do a procedure on the same day as an office visit? Betsy will answer these questions and many more in this fast-paced, interactive session.

Path to Profitability in Physician Practices

Many hospitals that run physician practices lose money. Lots of money. This seminar will describe three strategies to use on the path to profitability in physician practices. Betsy gave this well-received talk at the annual Congress of the American College of Healthcare Executives this year in Chicago. The goal of this presentation is to describe specific activities management can implement with the practice management staff and business office staff to decrease losses in physician practices. These activities are: 1) Billing and collecting like a private practice: effectively and efficiently 2) changing your structure and 3) analyzing your coding. The talk will include specific procedures that when implemented, will improve the bottom line!

Hospitalists and Intensivists: Everyday Coding™ Rules and Tools

There is no doubt that hospitalist programs are good for hospitals. Research shows that quality of care improves. Financial outcomes are better. But how do you bill on the physician side for hospitalists and intensivists? This program will explain coding rules, the effect of specialty designation and group membership and discuss best billing and collecting practices for this service. Schedule this program for your physicians, billing and coding staff and practice management and be sure that you are billing for all services performed by your hospitalist group in an efficient, effective and correct manner.

From Required to Desired: How your compliance auditor can be your hero

Compliance audits are a required task for physician practices. But instead of just gritting your teeth and doing them each year, this program will show how you benefit from your audits by identifying lost revenue in your revenue cycle and how to improve provider cooperation by having an educational focus to your audits. The annual OIG Workplan and the Compliance Guidance for Small Practices provide a road map for physician practice auditing activities. But, practices have limited time and resources. How do you select what to audit each year? When should you change your plan and audit new areas in response to the Workplan? What do you first? This is a specialty area for Betsy and you'll return to work excited about compliance after you hear this program. Schedule your billing, coding and compliance staff to attend this program.

Everyday Coding™ Prevention: how to bill and code for preventive medicine services

Shouldn't billing for well care be easy? There's that nice, simple group of codes in the CPT book for us to use? But it isn't easy. It's complicated by Medicare rules, payer regulations and diagnosis code problems. This program will explain the Medicare rules and commercial realities in plain English, including the new "Welcome to Medicare" visit and the dreaded split visits. The handouts include charts and templates that will make your job much easier! Learn the differences between preventive visits and office visits for Medicare and commercial payers.