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Ohio Chapter-ACC 17th Annual Meeting
Oct. 27, 2007 * Columbus, OH * The Conference Center at Northpointe
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Agenda  - General Session  | New Ways to Reduce Denials & Evaluate Your Coding

7:00-7:55     
Registration, Continental Breakfast, Posters and Visit Exhibits

7:55-8:00     
Welcoming Remarks                                           
William R. Lewis, MD, FACC

8:00-8:40 a.m.
Winning Poster Abstracts - Oral Competition (1st and 2nd place)

8:40-9:20 a.m.
Management of Atrial Fibrillation 2007
William R. Lewis, MD, FACC

9:20-10:00 a.m.
Physician Accountability, ACC, and Health System Reform
Jack Lewin, MD

10:00-10:45 a.m.
Break/Exhibits/Poster Session

10:45-11:20 a.m.
Sudden Death in Athletes 
Christine E. Lawless, MD, MBA, FACC

11:20 a.m.-12:00 noon.
Valvular Heart Disease: The New Guidelines
Brian P. Griffin, MD, FACC

12:00-1:00 p.m.
Lunch

1:00-1:40 p.m.
The Drug-Eluting Stent Controversy
Joseph K. Choo, MD, FACC

1:40-1:50 p.m.
Break

1:50-2:30 p.m.
Cardio-Renal Syndrome
David S. Feldman, MD, PhD, FACC

2:30-3:10 p.m.
Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia
John R. Bartholomew, MD, FACC

SPECIAL SESSION FOR PRACTICE & BILLING MANAGERS  
New Ways to Reduce Denials & Evaluate Your Coding
Physicians are cordially invited to attend this session.  

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You and your staff are invited to join us for this special meeting. You will explore proven approaches and techniques to combining compliance and billing with a report review to impact your bottom line and improve cardiology coding and documentation.
--  Linda Gates-Striby, CCS-P, ACS-CA. 

7:00-8:00 a.m.
Registration, Continental Breakfast, Posters and Visit Exhibits  

8:00-9:30 a.m.
Systematically Reducing Your Denials

9:30-9:45 a.m.
Break

9:45-10:45 a.m.
Your Doctors May Not Have to Work Harder...Just Code Smarter

10:45-11:00 a.m.
Break

11:00-11:30 a.m.
Legislative Update
-Tim Hill, CMPE - Practice Administrator, Capitol City Cardiology
National MGMA legislative liaison, cardiology/cardiovascular surgery section

Linda Gates-Striby has been in the medical field for 24 years. Her clinical experience includes working in the coronary and critical care units, heart stations and endoscopy suites, and as a hospital paramedic. She has served as a practice manager for the residency program at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Indianapolis and as a liaison between the billing and practice sites for hospital-employed physicians. Currently she is compliance director at The Care Group, LLC, Indianapolis, and owns Gates Physician Services, which provides consulting, educational and auditing services for physician practices. Linda serves on the Cardiology Advisory Board of the Board of Advanced Medical Coding and led the development of the ACS-CA exam.

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