Advanced Coding Workshop:
Fee: $175 Exhibitors & Industry Professionals (Health Care Professionals-Free)
COA will be hosting an Advanced Coding Workshop the day before the Conference. This workshop is available as a FREE add-on for practice professionals with virtual conference registration and we highly encourage you to attend. Consistent findings have shown that newer CPT codes for E&M services are significantly underutilized and misunderstood by practices. This finding, combined with the changes introduced for 2020, and the major changes for 2021, prompted the need for this workshop. There are approximately 40 new service codes for oncology. This year, there has been big departure by CMS from the traditional E&M 1 -5 levels. The new emphasis is on workflow, coordination, communications, virtual communications, and by different members of the care team. Most practices have not revised their workflows or procedures to identify and document key services. The changes are BIG and teams that have pursued the adoption and implementation of these codes report that implementation will not be quick.

This session will discuss the infrastructure and support necessary for a successful community oncology clinical research program. Information technology solutions to support the handling of data, regulatory documents, molecular profiling results, and study metrics will be presented. Additionally, innovative approaches including telemedicine, virtual molecular tumor boards, and natural language processing for trial matching will be highlighted.