Coding and Reimbursement Luncheon: What Does the Future Hold for Technology and Reimbursement?
Program Code: 222-A
Sunday, October 24, 2004
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM (ET)

SPEAKERS
Cynthia Frith, BS, MT(ASCP)CLS-G, Baton Rouge General Medical Center
Teresa Lee, JD, AdvaMed
Jerry Holmberg, PhD, MT(ASCP)SBB, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnotstics, Inc.

DESCRIPTION
Speakers, including a representative from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), will discuss current Medicare reimbursement policies for blood products and transfusion therapies. They will discuss how reimbursement policies may affect the future availability of blood safety technologies and make suggestions for adapting reimbursement policies to promote blood safety advances.

OBJECTIVES

• Explain current Medicare policies relating to coding and reimbursement for blood products and services
• Discuss the impact of reimbursement policies on the availability of new blood safety technologies

AUDIENCE
Physicians, Technologists, Nurses, Managers/Supervisors, CEOs/CFOs

PROGRAM LEVEL
Intermediate to Advanced