Early Bird registration deadline: Jan. 17
Description
The STS 2025 Coding Workshop: Best Practices for Cardiothoracic Surgery is a 2-day virtual event that provides coders, surgeons, and billing professionals with the latest updates to CPT and physician coding and reimbursement. Sessions include live panel discussions, Q&A responding to scenario-based questions submitted by attendees before and during the meeting, and challenging coding examples.
Additionally, participants will have access to supplemental online content to enhance their coding knowledge. This educational event covers coding specific to cardiothoracic surgery, with concentrations in Evaluation and Management (E/M) visits, Adult Cardiac Surgery, Congenital Heart Surgery, General Thoracic Surgery (Esophagus, Mediastinum, Pulmonary), and Vascular Surgery. The program also focuses on physician reimbursement issues affecting the entire specialty.
Target Audience
Cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiothoracic surgery coders, office managers, medical billing specialists, physician assistants, nurses, and anyone else involved in the coding, reimbursement, and compliance efforts for the CT surgery office.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Identify new CPT codes, updates and payment policies affecting cardiothoracic surgery coding for 2025.
- Relate the importance of specificity and identification of services provided in a patient encounter.
- Recognize coding and reimbursement criteria in order to identify and capture relevant documentation elements efficiently.
- Explain common coding issues for each subspecialty and how they should be reported and resolved.
- Discuss the 2025 changes to the E/M modifiers and guidelines.
- Summarize the necessary documentation and regulations relevant to critical care and cardiothoracic surgery E/M services for 2025.
Pricing
| Early Bird (through Jan. 17, 2025) |
Standard (Jan. 18 - March 1) | |
|---|---|---|
| STS Members and Their Employees* | $250 | $300 |
| Non-members and Staff Unaffiliated with an STS Member | $300 | $350 |
*An STS Member ID (6 digits) is required to receive the discounted member rate. For help with an STS Member ID, contact Member Services.
Coders will need to register in their own name; in order to qualify for the STS Member discount, they must supply the name of their surgeon.
PDF registration form.