Date & Time: Thursday, April 3, 2008. 12pm-1:30pm Mountain Time.
Faculty:
Suzanne Y. Pecoraro, RD, MPH, CDE. President of the Diabetes Education Society. Educator for Boulder Endocrinology. Past board member of American Association of Diabetes Educators. Past President of Rocky Mountain Association of Diabetes Educators.
Anne Ruelle, RN, CDE. Speaker for Eli Lilly’s DIN program and Abbott Diabetes. Consultant to TOPS-international weight loss program. Previously, Director of Diabetes and Lipid Management at Advanced Health Care-a merged group of 17 outpatient clincs, Milwaukee,Wisconsin.
Summary:
This program prepares the diabetes educator to deal with and better understand reimbursement issues related to new diabetes technology. While third party payment is not currently available for much of the new diabetes technology the diabetes educator can be an advocate to obtain this coverage. This program presents resources and strategic methods educators can use to help further third party coverage for new diabetes technologies.
Objectives:
At the end of the presentation participants will be able to:
- Identify resources available to persons and professionals using diabetes technology devices.
- Discuss potential reimbursement strategies for glucose testing supplies and devices.
- List
3 outcomes commonly considered by third party payers when
determining insurance reimbursement status.
Outline:
| Resources for the educator | ||
| Resources for the patient- importance of education | ||
| What is covered by insurance? | ||
| Can I get something that is not covered? | ||
| Mail order services | ||
| How educators can help influence third party payers | ||
| Participate in outcome data collections to show changes in diabetes care | ||
| Outcome examples: reduction in ER visits for hypoglycemia, hospitalizations for illness due to poor glucose control and consistent follow-up visits | ||
| Development of letters, report and data to influence reimbursement | ||
| Case study examples relating to reimbursement success | ||
Price:
You have two ways to participate.
| 1. | As an individual for the price of $30 per webinar. |
| 2. | As a site for the price of $ 125 per webinar. A site is defined as one computer connection and one telephone connection. The number of professionals awarded continuing education per site is unlimited. Sites and individuals that reserve all four (4) webinars receive a 10% discount for the series |
Refunds:
A refund will be granted, minus a $25 processing fee, if request is received in writing via fax (303/320-1550) at least 48 hours prior to the program.
System Requirements:
- Operating System: Windows 98 to present, Macintosh OSX, Linux.
- Browser: Java-enabled Internet Explorer (IE) 5.1+, Firefox 1.0+, Opera 7.52+, Mozilla 1.71+, and Netscape 7.2+. Please disable any software that prevents pop-up windows from occurring during the conference.
- Hardware: Minimum of 28.8Kbps Internet access.
- Screen resolution: 1024x768 or higher resolution preferred; 800x600 minimum.
- Additional: If listening over the web, you will need either speakers or headphones; a cable modem, DSL, ISDN, or equivalent broadband needed to receive audio/video streaming (128K minimum); Macromedia Flash 6.0+ or Windows Media Player (WMP) 6.4+; Java 1.5.0+ version.
Registration:
- Register Form Online and submit
- Mail: download the registration form and mail
- Fax: download the registration form and fax (303/320-1550)
- Phone: call 800/659-5808