Course Description
The STS Coding Workshop is designed to provide cardiothoracic surgery coders, surgeons, and all billing professionals with the latest coding and reimbursement updates affecting surgical practices. Sessions will be presented using scenario-based questions, challenging coding examples, attendee interaction, and extensive Q&A.
This 2-day, Friday-Saturday educational event will cover new and revised codes specific to cardiothoracic surgery, with concentrations in adult cardiac surgery, congenital heart surgery, general thoracic surgery, and vascular surgery. The program also will focus on reimbursement issues affecting the specialty as a whole. The Workshop will conclude with a special session on the physician’s role in documentation and reimbursement. Additionally, participants will have access to a series of supplemental online modules covering the global surgical period, modifiers, bundling, diagnosis, and coverage considerations to enhance their coding knowledge before and after the Workshop.
| STS Members & Their Employees | $925 |
| Non-Members & Staff Unaffiliated with STS | $1,200 |
Housing
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, where the Workshop will take place. The special STS group rate is $282 (single/double), plus state and local taxes, and is guaranteed through Thursday, January 2 or until the group block is sold out.
For the convenience of those attending both the Coding Workshop and the STS Annual Meeting (January 25-28), all housing reservations for the Coding Workshop must be completed through the Annual Meeting housing portal. Annual Meeting attendance requires a separate registration at sts.org/annualmeeting.
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons designates this live activity for a maximum of 13.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This program has the prior approval of AAPC for 13.0 continuing education hours. Grant of prior approval in no way constitutes endorsement by AAPC of the program content or the program sponsor.
This program has been approved for 13.0 continuing education unit(s) for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Granting prior approval from AHIMA does not constitute endorsement of the program content or its program sponsor.