ACOG's Payment in Practice provides scenarios for coding and billing for procedures typically performed by obstetrician-gynecologists directly from ACOG's Committee on Health Economics and Coding, or the CHEC. The CHEC Committee works to advocate for obstetrician-gynecologists and to ensure that physicians are paid fairly for their work. This podcast is a companion to ACOG's Payment in Practice webinar series. Have any coding questions? Visit the ACOG Payment Advocacy and Policy Portal and s ...
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The companion podcast to ACOG's Compassionate Conversations series, this series is aimed at highlighting effective techniques and answering questions on having sensitive conversations around difficult topics for patients and obstetrician-gynecologists. Over the course of this series, we hope to empower patients and their health care professionals in having these difficult conversations and how to delivery care compassionately. To hear more about Compassionate Conversations, check out our web ...
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In our fifth episode of the Payment in Practice podcast, viewers will learn about the RUC survey that is sent to ACOG members to determine the physician work and time for a modified or new procedure code. Viewers will hear about the survey and CPT code development process from the CHEC’s Dr. John Horton, Dr. David Holtz, and Dr. Lisa Hofler. Have a…
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In our third episode of the Payment in Practice podcast, viewers will hear from the CHEC's Dr. Jon Hathaway about Relative Value Units, or RVUs, that are used to quantify the value of a physician’s services by insurance companies and healthcare systems. Have any coding questions? Visit the ACOG Payment Advocacy and Policy Portal and submit your que…
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In our second episode of the Payment in Practice podcast, viewers will learn about global coding packages, that are intended to ease the process of billing and coding by bundling the professional and ancillary services associated with a patient’s care into one bill. Viewers will hear expert opinions from the CHEC’s Dr. Jon Hathaway, Dr. Nichole Mah…
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In our first episode of the Payment in Practice podcast, viewers will learn about ACOG’s Committee for Health Economics and Coding, or CHEC, and how they advocate for ACOG fellows and members to receive fair and equitable payment for the physicians’ work and time. Viewers will learn about the CHEC committee from the CHEC’s Dr. Gregory DeMeo, Dr. Gw…
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Discussing Mental Health During Infertility and Perinatal Loss
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16:12In the third episode of our Compassionate Conversations podcast series, Dr. Ponnila Marinescu and Kay Matthews will take a deeper dive into how health care professionals can discuss mental health with their patients experiencing fertility or perinatal loss in an empathetic, sensitive manner. We'll focus on how to have culturally mindful conversatio…
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In the second episode of our Compassionate Conversations podcast series, Drs. Ponnila Marinescu and Katherine Rosenblum will take a deeper dive into how health care professionals can discuss mental health with their postpartum patients in an empathetic, sensitive manner. We'll focus on how to have culturally mindful conversations with patients and …
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Discussing Mental Health During Pregnancy
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36:47In the first episode of our Compassionate Conversations podcast series, Drs. Camille Hoffman and Nancy Byatt will take a deeper dive into how health care professionals can discuss mental health with their pregnant patients in an empathetic, sensitive manner. We'll focus on how to have culturally mindful conversations with patients and how trauma ca…
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