EDUCATION: Learn To Get the Reimbursement You’re Due at SVS Coding Course to Be Held Sept. 20-21

Jul 15, 2019 Re-posted from the July 2019 issue of Vascular Specialist

Don’t leave reimbursement money on the table. Learn what you need to know about proper coding at the SVS 2019 Coding and Reimbursement Workshop.

Registration today for the workshop, Sept. 20 to 21, plus the optional half-day Evaluation and Management Coding course. The workshop will be held at the Hyatt Rosemont, just minutes from O’Hare International Airport and near the new SVS headquarters office (944 W. Higgins Road, Rosemont, Ill.).

Course Chair, Sean Roddy, MD, stresses the workshop’s value to vascular surgeons and/or their office staff. “You learn to be paid fairly for your work,” he said. “You learn how to do appropriate billing to maximize your reimbursement – and how not to make yourself a target for an audit.”

It’s vital a surgeon in a solo practice has a coder, he said. In a group practice, at least one person needs to be knowledgeable.

Learn more and register at vsweb.org/Coding19.

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