- Identify the billing and collection differences between WC/Occ Med services and non-WC/Occ Med services
- Identify common collection problems and issues involving WC claims, and assess the practice’s PM/billing system’s ability to accommodate WC and Occ Med billing.
- Distinguish between general WC and Occ Med services and how each is billed.
- Distinguish between “first aid” and reportable WC services and the differences in how each is billed.
- Find a provider’s state WC fee schedule and calculate the WC fee schedule’s reimbursement as a percentage of Medicare.
- Analyze financial and billing reports to determine whether adding WC and Occ Med services contributes to bottom line profits.
Recorded for the 2019 Spring Convention
32 minutes of synced audio and PowerPoint
Course Description:So, you’d like to add occupational medicine services to your urgent care clinic as a way to expand services and increase revenues. However, the financial and revenue cycle management aspects of expanding your UCC’s services to include occupational medicine can be daunting. Learn the essentials of workers’ comp and OccMed billing, collection and RCM. You’ll learn what it takes in terms of billing systems and B&C staffing to add WC and OccMed services, and you’ll be provided with benchmarking to gauge how you are performing compared to your peers.
Speaker: Michael McMillan, JD
Michael McMillan is the CEO and a principal in Doctors on Duty, a network of 10 urgent care clinics in the Central Coast area of California, owned in partnership with Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System. Mike also is a principal of Cypress Healthcare Partners, LLC. Cypress provides physician practice management services to over 350 Monterey County physicians in a wide variety of medical specialties, as well as overseeing more than 1,000 non-physician employees. Mike graduated from UCLA with a degree in Economics and from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles with a law degree. Mike was a healthcare lawyer for 15 years before transitioning into healthcare management.
Disclosures:
None
1 CME
Designation Statement
The Urgent Care Association designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Accreditation Statement
The Urgent Care Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Submitting for Credit:
If you would like to submit for credit above, you must complete the 3 question knowledge test and answer 3 out of 5 correctly. Your certificate will be available in your library under Credits and below the title of the session.
Please email education@ucaoa.org with questions.