| Today's Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
| WEDI Audiocast: Electronic Claim Attachments Where to Begin April 5 |
| Monday, March 27, 2006 |
| WEDI is sponsoring an audio conference on "Electronic Claim Attachments Where to Begin" April 5.
Among the topics scheduled to be covered during the 90-minute program are the current claims adjudication environment, ROI for electronic claim attachments, provisions of the Proposed Rule (including attachment types), and coding structures used to request and submit attachment information (LOINC.) How do requests for additional clinical information impact a healthcare organization? How can the latest federal government HIPAA regulation streamline the claim payment system and merge critical clinical and financial transactions? The program speakers are all participants in the EMS Claim Attachments Pilot. They will outline the concepts that an organization's administrative, IT, and business office staff will need to know to better understand this complex transaction and begin the process of implementing electronic claim attachments. TARGET AUDIENCE: *Providers *Payers *Vendors *Clearinghouses *Anyone with a need to understand the fundamentals of electronic claims attachments Speakers schduled are: Maria Ward, WEDI Claim Attachments PAG Co-Chair, Suzan Ryder, Director Electronic Commerce, Empire Medicare Services, Mary Lynn Bushman, Project Coordinator, Empire Medicare Services, Montefiore Medical Center Representative (invited) And, Lorraine Doo, Senior Policy Advisor, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services WHAT WILL BE COVERED: General overview of the transactions, including basic information, definitions, and concepts such as: ยท Current claims adjudication environment ยท ROI for Electronic Claim Attachments ยท Provisions of the Proposed Rule (including attachment types) ยท Coding structures used to request and submit attachment information (LOINC) ยท Solicited and unsolicited attachments ยท Human decision and computer decision variants ยท Results from the Empire Medicare Services New York state pilot ยท Expected compliance timeline ยท Critical implementation steps Participants will be better prepared to: ยท Initiate your implementation process ยท Evaluate your current workflow process for attachments and how that workflow will change with this new regulation ยท Determine the most appropriate process for integrating electronic claim attachments in your organization ยท Learn about the highly successful pilot and how your organization can achieve ROI with this new regulation TARGET AUDIENCE: *Providers *Payers *Vendors *Clearinghouses *Anyone with a need to understand the fundamentals of electronic claims attachments The cost of the 90-minute audiocast is $50 for WEDI Members, and $95 for Non Members. The registration fee allows you to dial in one time to the event. You may conference in as many people as you would like into your phone line, but you may not dial into the official audiocast line more than once. Those who dial into the call with more than one phone line will be billed additional registration fees. ONLINE REGISTRATION: http://www.wedi.org/forms/meeting/MeetingFormPublic/view?id=159900000016 |
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