Teaching Physician Billing for Services Involving Residents
This presentation provides a comprehensive guide to the documentation and billing requirements for teaching physicians overseeing medical residents’ patient care. Participants will learn about the necessary levels of teaching physician supervision and review sample verbiage for compliant teaching physician notes. Key areas of concern will be highlighted, along with practical and efficient solutions to prevent common documentation and billing issues. This course is essential for teaching physicians aiming to ensure regulatory compliance and optimize billing practices in clinical education settings.
Target Audience
West Kendall Baptist Hospital GME faculty including: family medicine practitioners, cardiologists, emergency medicine physicians, surgeons, hospitalists, obstetricians/ gynecologists, nephrologists, hematologists/oncologists, infectious disease specialists, gastroenterologists, neurologists, ENTs, ophthalmologists, urologists, pulmonologists, critical care physicians, medical students, residents, fellows and other interested healthcare professionals.
Learning Objectives
- Physicians will accurately provide and document the appropriate level of participation and supervision for services performed by medical residents.
- Residents will effectively document the specifics of each service, including the clinical scenario and management details.
Seth Canterbury, CPC
Healthcare Coding and Reimbursement Consultant
Miami, Fla.
Seth Canterbury, CPC, faculty for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose, and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
Samar Fahmy, M.D., director of this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose, and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development, and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose.
*Ineligible companies - Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Baptist Health South Florida designates this live activity 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.
This activity has been approved for 1 credit hour, CE Broker Course #20-1309356, by the Florida Boards of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, and by the Florida Council of Physician Assistants.
Available Credit
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 General certificate of attendance