Coding Changes that Impact Your PALTC Practice

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Speaker: Robert A. Zorowitz, MD, MBA, FACP, AGSF, CMD
Moderator: Fatima Sheikh, MD, CMD
1-hour CME/CMD
Recorded: May 16, 2024
Released: May 20, 2024
Expiration: May 19, 2027

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This session provides an overview of the revised evaluation and management criteria, including the medical decision-making tables. In addition, this session provides an overview of codes beyond the usual nursing home set and how they may be appropriate for your practice.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of this program, attendees should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate understanding of the selection of level of service for PALTC services by either total time of the encounter or medical decision making.
  2. Review the medical decision making tables in CPT to use when selecting a level of service.
  3. Integrate prolonged service codes and other relevant services into practice.
  4. Understand the intersection between nursing facility regulations and appropriate services and coding.

Financial Disclosure: None of the planners, faculty, or others in control of content disclosed a relevant financial relationship with an ineligible company.

Credit Statements

Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed) and MMDA – The Mid-Atlantic Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. PALTmed is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
PALTmed designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CMD Credit
This self-study activity has been pre-approved by PALTmed for up to 1 management hour toward certification or recertification as a Certified Medical Director (CMD) in post-acute and long-term care medicine. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit actually spent on the activity.

Physician Assistants
The NCCPA accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ towards recertification. Visit the NCCPA website for more information.

Nurse Practitioners
The ANCC accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ towards recertification. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ = 1 contact hour. For more information visit the ANCC FAQs.