2024 Billers Forum
Getting paid by Medicare, Medicaid and Medicare Advantage plans for the services provided is essential to nursing facilities’ operation. Various billing and eligibility issues create challenges to getting paid at all, let alone timely and accurately. This education program will pay for itself as it reviews the program and plan requirements and provides invaluable tips and tricks to getting paid. Topics that will be discussed this year include Medicaid/Medicare billing issues, MI Health Link, LOCD, PDPM, Medicare Advantage, collections, and more!
Program Highlights:
- Staying up to date with beneficiary notices
- Managing Medicare as a secondary payer
- Compliant billing with Medicare informational claims
- Where we are with the Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) Audit
- Managed care tips - new CMS mandates for managed care plans
- Updates from MDHHS
- Updates from Aetna Better Health
2024 Agenda
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Please feel free to submit questions in advance of the program to MichaelBatts@hcam.org for inclusion in the program. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Tammy Davis and Tina Simmons from ECS Solutions, a division of HW&Co., will provide some insights on dealing with Managed Care reimbursements.
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10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | HCAM VP Reimbursement Mike Batts will provide updates on the following:
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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | MDHHS staff will join us to discuss top Medicaid and MI Health Link issues including:
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2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Sharon Hamilton Griffin from Aetna Better Health will provide a health plan overview. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Alli Leas from Meridian/Centene will provide a health plan overview. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM |
Speakers
Director, Contracting & Network Development
Michigan Meridian
alexandra.leas@mimeridian.com
This program is intended for business office managers, accounts payable, billers, financial staff, owners/operators, CEO/CFOs, administrators, clinical nurses and consultants.
Due to the free-form nature of this program, and to allow the greatest flexibility to bring you timely, relevant and critical information, continuing education contact hours will not be provided.
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