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St. Louis West Professional Coders7th Annual St. Louis Local AAPC Chapter Banquet and SeminarMonday - November 4, 2013VenueSt. Charles Convention Center, One Convention Center Plaza St. Charles, MO 63303Hotel AccommodationsEmbassy Suites St. Charles, Two Convention Center Plaza St. Charles, MO 63303Call hotel directly for rate information and discounts before Oct 1 at 636-946-5544Payment InformationConference Fee: $100 if paid by July 31, 2013 $125 August 1, 2013 or laterDeadline October 15, 2013 NO REFUNDS AFTER October 15, 2013Make checks payable to St. Louis Professional CodersICD-10 2014 Final Draft Special Price for Attendees: $50 each.Suggested retail $99.95. We will be using these during Rhonda Buckholtz’ presentation. There is no limit on the number you can purchase. May be picked up at conference or afterwards at a chapter meeting. Deadline for ordering books is October 15, 2013. Books are non-refundable.Register and pay online at or print and mail a copy of this form to the registration chairperson :Lydia Thomas, CPC, CCP-P, CCC617 North Benton AvenueSt. Charles, MO 63301llthomascpc@ Attendee Name/Credentials:_________________________________________________ Email:___________________________________________________________________ Special Dietary Needs:_____________________________________________________ Payment Method: Cash ______ Check ______ Credit Card (please provide information) CC Number /Exp.date:_____________________________________________________ Cardholder Name if different than attendee:_____________________________________ScheduleRegistration 6:30am – 8:00am Meet and Greet with VendorsCharles Ankney – Motivational Speaker 8:00am – 9:00amChandra Lynn Stephenson – How to Talk E&M with your Provider 9:00am – 10:15amBreak 10:15am – 10:30amVisit the vendor boothsRhonda Buckholtz – Complex Coding Scenarios from ICD-10 10:30am – 12:00pmLunch 12:00pm – 1:00pmVisit the vendor boothsRhonda Buckholtz – Complex Coding Scenarios continued 1:00pm – 3:30pmBreak 3:30pm – 3:45pmVisit the vendor boothsRachel Coon – OIG and Compliance 3:45pm – 5:00pmTotal CEUs 7.5About Our SpeakersCharles Ankney – Make a Difference - Charles is a certified, advanced-level life coach who founded a mentoring & life coaching service for parents and their kids. His career jobs include being the founder/owner of a teen mentoring/life coaching service, middle school teacher and a youth minister.Charles will help the audience be inspired to make a difference in lives. Finding this calling will not only help them be personally fulfilled, it will help improve team atmosphere and job production, too. His goal is to help your group members gain a passion for making a difference in the world around them, especially in their varied medical careers. He will also give practical, pragmatic game plans for ways they can start making a difference now and in facing the changes looming in our member’s future.Chandra Lynn Stephenson, CPC, CPC-H, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CEMC, CFPC, CGSC, CIMC, COSC President of Indianapolis, IN local AAPC chapter, a 2013-2015 member of the AAPC National Advisory Board and is currently employed as a Surgical Coding Manager at Aviacode. She started out in health care 10+ years ago and has experience in a centralized billing office, a family practice office, a cardiology office, as a billing and coding instructor at a local technical college, as a compliance auditor, and as a consultant. She enjoys conducting audits, researching coding and compliance issues, developing coding tools, and providing education.Rhonda Buckholtz, CPC, CPMA, CPC-I, VP ICD-10 Training & Education AAPC, has more than 20 years experience in health care, working in the reimbursement, billing and coding sector. She is a lead member of the AAPC’s ICD-10 training and education team, which is charged with the development and training of curriculum on ICD-10 implementation and code set training in preparation for providers, facilities and health plans. She has developed training modules for ICD-10-CM for all specialties for the AAPC.Rachel Coon, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-P, CPMA, CPC-I, CEMC, an AAPC certified professional medical coding instructor and an AHIMA ICD-10-CM Trainer, has over 20 years in the medical field and experience in a wide array of healthcare settings and roles in multi-specialty practices, with particular expertise in Family Practice and Internal Medicine. Extensive experience as an independent consultant, professional auditor, and medical coder, and has the ability to perform internal audits for compliant documentation training and revenue opportunities that may be missed due to data submission errors. She is president of based in Swansea, Il. Rachel provides education and training for physicians and office staff on medical coding and documentation improvement, with a great interest with regard to Documentation Compliance with the EMR in the office setting. She strongly recommends the need for offices to establish billing and coding compliance policies. She is also licensed and certified to teach the AAPC PMCC certification program. ................
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