PMI’s National Conference Registration Ends Soon

Attendees to Receive Tools and Forms for Use in the Practice

This year’s 2009 National Conference for Medical Office Professionals is all about helping you to excel in your career and improve practice performance. Attendees will receive bonus tips, tools and forms to integrate and customize for practice use. Resources include applicant screening tools such as reference forms, interview questions, and a front desk evaluation checklist.

Additional items participants will receive include:

• claims denial tracking log
• compliance checklist
• surgery audit tools
• Welcome to Medicare quick guide
• Sample collection letters

It’s not too late to register!

Call now to reserve your seat.

800-259-5562

Practice Management Institute 2009 National Conference for Medical Office Professionals

Read the latest on what’s happening at this year’s National Conference for Medical Office Professionals.  Visit the PMI 2009 Conference web site.

Top 10 Reasons to Attend PMI’s National Conference For Medical Office Professionals on May 20-22 in San Antonio, Texas

10. Strengthen your knowledge with cutting-edge practice management instruction and improve your value in the practice.

9. Your favorite PMI faculty members will be on hand to address your toughest questions.

8. Combine serious learning with a fun time in downtown San Antonio, Texas.

7. Get tips, tools, and techniques from leading guest experts from around the country.

6. Advanced-level training to include new slants on practice marketing, collections, compliance, and customer service.

5. Design your own customized learning track from 20 breakout selections.

4. Be among the first to receive details on an all-new, college-level Leadership Academy.

3. Get all your CEUs (12 PMI, 12 AAPC for May 21-22, plus 6 more PMI and AAPC CEUs for pre-conference on May 20) in a 2 or 3 day setting.

2. Be the first to receive training that will spur an increase in practice profitability and productivity.

1. Save $50 on each registration when you register with a friend by this Thursday, April 30.

PMI National Conference Pre-Conference Sessions: May 20, 2009

Put your skills to the test during PMI’s Pre-Conference Sessions. Join us for a one-of-a-kind, investigational approach to enhancing practice performance.

This year’s pre-conference involves the entire group in an interactive experience that won’t soon be forgotten. Participants will tackle tough issues first hand as they assume the role of practice decision-maker. Learning objectives include becoming more adept at handling key responsibilities within the practice, learning how to identify key practice performance indicators, and improving analytical skills. Take away real solutions that will enhance your professional abilities. Choose your pre-conference group based on your own key learning objectives:

Coding/Reimbursement: Learn how to improve practice reimbursement processes by identifying and correcting problem coding, billing and compliance areas.

Management Group: Craft solutions that address and improve personnel, financial and areas of risk within the practice.

---

Hear Conference Audio Clips from
Last Year’s Conference

---

CEUs: PMI certified professionals: Earn 12 CEUs for conference, 6 CEUs for pre-conference attendance. CEUs will be assigned per session attended.

AAPC certified professionals: The PMI conference has prior approval of the American Academy of Professional Coders for 12.0 Continuing Education Units (CEUs). The PMI pre-conference has prior approval of the AAPC for 6.0 CEUs. Granting of this approval in no way constitutes endorsement by the Academy of the program, content or the program sponsor.

Be a WINNER at PMI’s National Conference!

PMI’s 2009 National Conference will be filled with FUN, informative, and interactive sessions that will also give you the opportunity to win prizes, learn, and network all under one roof.

New This Week

PMI debuts the New Conference Concierge Program that will advice participants on where to go, what to see, and the best places to attend. The Conference Concierge is advice from the locals to make your stay in San Antonio great!

PMI always strives to host the most engaging, fun and educational experiences at our National Conference. This year, we’ve added contests, prizes, drawings, and a Game Night that will allow our medical office professionals to enjoy the conference to the fullest. PMI will host prize drawings courtesy of our Exhibitors. The excitement continues during Game Night, where all participants have the opportunity to win and become stars for one night.

Have you registered yet? Hurry, hotel deals and conference discounts expire soon. Right now, you can register with a friend and save $50 of both registrations! Offer good through April 30. Don’t miss out on the most entertaining conference yet!

Bring a friend and save $50

Register two or more together for the conference and save $50 off each registration. Expires April 30. See conference homepage for Discount Code.

The 2009 Practice Management Institute
Conference for Medical Office Professionals

This year, our conference emphasis is on change and especially about empowering you to make a difference in practice performance and profitability.

Take your pick from thirty sessions, three learning tracks, two pre-conference tracks, 18 presenters.

Last Chance for Early Bird Discount

$100 off Conference and $50 off Pre-Conference Expires March 31

The 2009 Practice Management Institute Conference for Medical Office Professionals

This much-anticipated annual learning event is open to anyone seeking advanced training in coding, reimbursement, and office management skills for the medical practice. Attendees are comprised primarily of physician staff members – medical office managers, coding and billing professionals from across the U.S.

Thirty sessions will be offered, presented by 18 speakers and organized into three learning tracks plus two pre-conference tracks. Attendees receive a conference manual and tote bag, access to all general and breakout sessions, breakfast each morning, networking luncheons on May 21-22, and continuing education units (CEUs). Pre-conference sessions for coding/reimbursement and office management tracks will be held on May 20.

This year, it’s all about change and empowering you to make a difference.

Practice Marketing for a New Economy at PMI’s National Conference

In tough economic times, practices must work harder to feed more business into the practice. What’s going to set you apart from your competition? Find out how at this year’s PMI conference. Marketing experts, Laura Lake and Jamie Verkamp, will teach you tactical solutions that will grow your patient base. Receive a fresh, do-it-yourself plan that will jump start your marketing initiative.

Session Highlights:

• How to set practice goals that reach new heights
• Attract new patients using online and offline marketing strategies
• Implementation of value added services for your patients
• Getting your team excited about growth potential
• Turn those qualified leads into new patients
• All this plus a huge dose of positivity and motivation

Keep Your Physician(s) Out of Jail

Doctors Do Go to Jail

PMI wants to ensure that your practice stays on the right side of the law. That’s why we are pleased to announce the return of the Compliance Panel at the 2009 National Conference this May. The National Compliance Panel is comprised of experts in medical practice compliance. Meet D.K. Everitt, OSHA compliance officer, Robert Liles, Fraud and Abuse Attorney, and Regina Mixon, Independent Review Officer.

Back by Popular Demand!

This year’s compliance panel will bring you the latest information on Recovery Audit Contractor program, the Medicare Administrative Contractor program and OSHA rules and regulations and much more to help ensure your practice stays in compliance. Bring your toughest questions and get straightforward answers in this popular audience-driven session.

2009 PMI Conference Countdown

Today’s health care professionals must be poised to quickly implement changes that we are moving toward. Whether ICD-10, electronic health records, or more stringent audit scrutiny, PMI’s National Conference for Medical Office Professionals will address these changes in real time to better prepare you and your practice for what lies ahead. Our experts will share first-hand knowledge about the changing face of health care and bring you tips, tools and techniques to help you become more productive and excel in your profession.

This is not you run-of-the-mill stagnant conference. For example, our pre-conference takes participants through the experience of repairing a dysfunctional practice – it is a one-of-a-kind exercise that will enlighten coders, billing staff and managers alike.  This is a session that you will be talking about long after you have left the PMI conference.

Participants can take part in a mix of learning, networking, interactivity and fun that only PMI can create. Test your knowledge and win prizes during our game show and exhibitor reception on Thursday night. Every conference participant will receive a bonus toolkit of takeaway resources to improve on-the-job performance. Whether your area of concentration is compliance, coding, reimbursement or general management of the practice, you will walk away empowered to make a real difference in the profitability and productivity of your practice. And, as always, you can earn up to 12 CEUs from PMI for attendance. All this adds up to the best value and experience for your training dollar.

We already have several familiar faces registered. What? You have never attended PMI’s National Conference? I want to see you here this year! Your participation helps to shape the educational experience for everyone in attendance. Whether you plan to travel solo to San Antonio or attend the conference with colleagues, everyone will have an opportunity to take home great memories of San Antonio. Hundreds of repeat attendees have made this conference their annual training event. With all of the added attractions, activities and prizes, this really is the must-attend learning event of the year.

What are you waiting for? Click a link to the right to browse the conference web site and get registered today!

Sincerely,

Regina Mixon, IRO, TPA, CMC, CMIS, CMOM, CPC, CPC-I

Director of Associate Faculty Development

CEO, The Physicians Practice S.O.S. Group, Inc.