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ForwardTeaching Physician Billing for Services Involving Residents
This presentation provides a comprehensive review of the documentation and billing requirements for teaching physicians who supervise medical residents in patient care settings. Participants will gain an understanding of the regulatory standards governing teaching physician involvement, including the required levels of supervision and documentation necessary to support compliant billing.
The course examines sample teaching physician attestations and note language, highlighting best practices for accurately documenting resident services. Common compliance risks and documentation deficiencies will be discussed, along with practical strategies to improve efficiency, ensure regulatory compliance, and reduce billing vulnerabilities.
Target Audience
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, nurses, medical students, residents, fellows and other interested healthcare professionals.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this conference, participants should be better able to:
- Identify the documentation requirements for teaching physician services involving residents.
- Describe the levels of teaching physician supervision required for various clinical services.
- Apply compliant teaching physician attestation and note language in clinical documentation.
- Recognize common documentation and billing errors and implement strategies to prevent them.
- Improve billing accuracy and regulatory compliance in academic and teaching practice settings.
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 has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.
Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Available Credit
- 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.25 General certificate of attendance
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