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Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Anesthesia
$429.00
Product Code:
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The Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Anesthesia is the can't-miss event of the year for Anesthesia coders. Join the nation's top coding trainers November 3-5, 2026, and get a first look at the 2027 CPT® and ICD-10 code changes affecting your specialty.
Interested in Registering Multiple Attendees? Register your team of two or more and save an additional 10%! Your savings will automatically calculate in your cart when you register.
Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Anesthesia
November 3-5, 2026
Boost your coding knowledge and gain information that can make your job easier during the Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Anesthesia.
You can't afford to miss this summit. Changes to how Medicare calculates payments cut your revenue for post-operative pain blocks and other services in the facility setting. For example, the average Medicare Part B payment for a lumbar epidural (62323) fell from $96 to $89. Payment for the first 30 minutes of critical care (99291) fell from $205 to $199. In this environment, anesthesia groups that stick to business as usual, try to operate with outdated information or don't defend their revenue will struggle to stay in business.
The Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Anesthesia will help your practice thrive with a selection of sessions that were requested by anesthesia coders and billers. In addition to in-depth, procedure-specific guidance on coding anesthesia services, you'll also learn how to abstract 100% of the information from reports to ensure you capture every base unit for the anesthesia service, plus any separately billable services the anesthesia provider performed.
Other sessions cover the independent dispute resolution for small anesthesia groups that any group can use to tackle the No Surprises Act's Independent Dispute Resolution process and get the revenue that payers owe your group. You'll also learn how to connect anatomy to coding and use scenarios to help you simplify complicated anesthesia care team billing.
Bonus: Each day ends with a 40-minute question and answer session that gives you a chance to ask the day's speakers questions.
In 2026 the Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Anesthesia will show you how to:
- Use sharper chart abstraction practices to make sure the anesthesia provider receives all the money they rightfully earned, every time.
- Apply your knowledge of anatomy to coding and reduce the need to query providers.
- Protect your practice from compliance risks caused by anesthesia care team coding errors.
- Defend the group’s revenue with tips that boost your chances of independent dispute resolution success.
- Accurately report anesthesia performed with lower endovascular repair, bariatric surgery and surgery of the skull and spine.
- Avoid the latest challenges to your claims for post-operative pain blocks and anesthesia for screening colonoscopies.
- Prepare for new coding and regulatory changes that will go into effect in 2027.
- Extra! Add on a specialty – Pain Management, Orthopedics, and/or Billing & Compliance – and attend sessions from multiple tracks spanned over time.
Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Anesthesia
Virtual Conference Day 1 — Tuesday, November 3, 2026
*All times are in Eastern Time (EDT).
12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Anatomy: Connect Clinical Terminology to Your Coding
Kelly Dennis, MBA, ACS-AN, CANPC, CHCA, CPMA, CPC, CPC-I
Sharpen your coding skills, improve communication with providers and protect revenue by improving your knowledge of anatomy and related terminology. Discover how to connect anatomical information to coding and revenue, improve the quality of queries to providers and save time researching anatomical terms.
12:55 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.
Musculoskeletal Surgery: Anesthesia for Surgery on the Skull, Spine and More
Kelly Dennis, MBA, ACS-AN, CANPC, CHCA, CPMA, CPC, CPC-I
Take your anesthesia coding knowledge of musculoskeletal surgery beyond joint replacements. During this session you will learn how to report anesthesia for a variety of musculoskeletal procedures. This session will focus on coding anesthesia for a variety of services, including manipulation of dislocations under anesthesia; spine surgery from different approaches; and reconstructive surgery of the skull and face.
1:40 p.m. – 1:55 p.m.
Break
1:55 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Update 2027 – Start the New Year with the Vital Intelligence Your Group Needs
Julia Kyles, CPC
Make sure your anesthesia group doesn’t experience start-of-year coding and compliance chaos. During this session you'll learn about billing, coding and regulatory changes that will go into effect Jan. 1, 2027. The session will include a review of relevant changes that went into effect in 2026 so you can be sure you're up to date.
2:50 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Live Q&A
Kelly Dennis, MBA, ACS-AN, CANPC, CHCA, CPMA, CPC, CPC-I
Julia Kyles, CPC
Connect with today's speakers and ask questions about the topics covered during today's sessions, along with other anesthesia billing and compliance questions.
Virtual Conference Day 2 — Wednesday, November 4, 2026
12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Independent Dispute Resolution: How Small Anesthesia Groups Can Succeed
Maya Turner, CPC, CPB, CPMA, CPCO, CRC, CFPC, CPC-I
Learn how to implement time-saving tips that give you the best chance to obtain your money through the No Surprises Act's independent dispute resolution process. This session will show you how small anesthesia groups can make the independent dispute resolution process work the way it should, by protecting anesthesia groups from the loss of revenue for out-of-network services.
12:55 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.
Chart Abstraction: Capture the Details that Can Boost Base Units
Marcy Garuccio, ACS-AN, CANPC, CPMA, CPC, SME, AAPC Fellow and Laura McNeill, M.D.
This session will use a variety of anesthesia care team scenarios to demonstrate how to report anesthesia services even when the care team falls apart. You will learn how to spot the warning signs of broken medical direction and how to bill appropriately. This session will help you tackle care team coding in the future with a variety of care team scenarios, including teaching situations for anesthesiologists and CRNAs.
1:40 p.m. – 1:55 p.m.
Break
1:55 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Cardiovascular services – Anesthesia for Lower Endovascular Repair, Heart Procedures and More
Doris V. Branker, CHC, CPC, CIRCC, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CEMC
Make sure you and your team are ready to tackle anesthesia claims for procedures on the cardiovascular system, from minimally invasive interventions to the most complex open chest procedures. This session will explain anesthesia coding for pediatric cardiac procedures, heart procedures with and without a pump oxygenator and the new lower endovascular repair services.
2:50 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Live Q&A
Doris V. Branker, CHC, CPC, CIRCC, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CEMC
Marcy Garuccio, ACS-AN, CANPC, CPMA, CPC, SME, AAPC Fellow
Laura McNeill, M.D.
Maya Turner, CPC, CPB, CPMA, CPCO, CRC, CFPC, CPC-I
Connect with today's speakers and ask questions about the topics covered during today's sessions, along with other anesthesia billing and compliance questions.
Virtual Conference Day 3 — Thursday, November 5, 2026
12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Gastrointestinal Procedures – Gastroendoscopy, Bariatric Surgery and Beyond
Doris V. Branker, CHC, CPC, CIRCC, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CEMC
Discover how to boost coding accuracy when you and your team code anesthesia services for a variety of gastrointestinal procedures, including bariatric procedures and screening colonoscopies. This session will deliver key insights on how to report anesthesia for upper- and lower-gastroendoscopic procedures and cover best practices for avoiding denials of screening colonoscopies.
12:55 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.
Chart Abstraction: Capture the Details that Can Boost Base Units
Kelly Dennis, MBA, ACS-AN, CANPC, CHCA, CPMA, CPC, CPC-I
Learn how to mine details from the anesthesia report and look beyond the operative note's headers to ensure that your coding – and your anesthesia provider’s revenue – accurately reflects their work. This session will show you how to find important details from the operative report that contribute to anesthesia coding, and how to append relevant codes and modifiers such as extreme age and physical status.
1:40 p.m. – 1:55 p.m.
Break
1:55 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Post-Operative Pain Blocks: Streamline and Speed Coding
Kelly Dennis, MBA, ACS-AN, CANPC, CHCA, CPMA, CPC, CPC-I
Make sure incomplete documentation, confusion about new techniques or tougher payer requirements for post-operative pain management services aren't blocking your anesthesia group's revenue for post-operative pain management. This session will cover best practices for determining whether the service was a nerve or plane block, documenting blocks and strategies that save time for providers and coders.
2:50 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Live Q&A
Doris V. Branker, CHC, CPC, CIRCC, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CEMC
Kelly Dennis, MBA, ACS-AN, CANPC, CHCA, CPMA, CPC, CPC-I
Connect with today's speakers and ask questions about the topics covered during today's sessions, along with other anesthesia billing and compliance questions.
— Agenda subject to change —
Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Anesthesia
Speakers
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Doris V. Branker, CHC, CPC, CIRCC, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CEMC, is principal consultant of DB Healthcare Consulting & Education. She is a multispecialty coding, reimbursement, practice management, and compliance consultant with specialty areas including evaluation and management, anesthesia, pain management, critical care medicine, interventional radiology, and cardiology. She is a consultant for the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and shares free educational content in her specialty areas on her YouTube page "Doris the Coder." |
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Kelly Dennis, MBA, ACS-AN, CANPC, CHCA, CPMA, CPC, CPC-I, has over 40 years of experience in anesthesia coding and billing and has been speaking about anesthesia issues nationally since 2002. She has a master’s degree in business administration, is a certified auditor, coder and instructor through the American Academy of Professional Coders. Kelly is an Advanced Coding Specialist through the Board of Medical Specialty Coding and served as lead advisor for their anesthesia board. Kelly also serves as a practice management and reimbursement consultant for the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). She is a certified health care auditor and has owned her own company, specializing in anesthesia consulting, Perfect Office Solutions, Inc., since November 2001. |
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Marcy Garuccio, ACS-AN, CANPC, CPMA, CPC, SME, AAPC Fellow, is a senior consultant at RMA. Her career spans more than 30 years and includes 20 years as the president of Health Care Billing Associates. The organization began as a medical billing service for anesthesia practices and grew to include other physician and surgical specialties. Garuccio is currently a senior consultant for RMA, a billing agency that offers consultation, coding, auditing, documentation compliance, and revenue cycle review and recommendations for anesthesia and pain management services. She has conducted webinars and live presentations for DecisionHealth, recently authored a course offered by Libman Education titled "Essentials of Anesthesiology Coding and Billing" and presents for various AAPC meetings. |
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Julia Kyles, CPC, is a content specialist at DecisionHealth. Since joining the DecisionHealth editorial team in 2000, she has written a wide range of articles and books including the Anesthesia & Pain Coder’s Pink Sheet and Pain Management Coding Answers. She also develops the agendas for the annual anesthesia and pain management conferences. To improve her coding knowledge and better understand her readers, Kyles joined the AAPC and received her CPC certification in 2015. |
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Laura McNeill, M.D., has been a private practice anesthesiologist for more than 20 years and currently works on the cardiac anesthesia team at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. Before embarking on a clinical career, she worked as a medical research technician at the University of Pittsburgh and Chicago Children’s Hospital. She attended medical school at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago and served her rotating internship at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Illinois. Following her anesthesia residency at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Chicago Hospitals, Dr. McNeill studied cardiothoracic anesthesia for six months at Allegheny General Hospital. |
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Maya Turner, CPC, CPB, CPMA, CPCO, CRC, CFPC, CPC-I, is the Founder of Turner Expert Consulting Services and Chief Operating Officer of Healthcare Inspired, LLC. She is a healthcare compliance consultant and national educator specializing in medical coding, revenue cycle management, regulatory compliance, and healthcare operations. She is also the author of "Billable: The revenue cycle manager's guide to branding." |
Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Anesthesia
Pricing
Retail price: $429.00
Add on a specialty – Orthopedics, Pain Management, and/or Billing & Compliance Virtual Summit – for $100 each.
Group pricing is as follows:
- 2-10 attendees = each attendee receives 10% discount off retail price
- 11-15 attendees = each attendee receives 15% discount off retail price
- 16-20 attendees = each attendee receives 20% discount off retail price
- 21 or more attendees = each attendee receives 25% discount off retail price
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Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Anesthesia
Continuing Education
AHCC (formally BMSC)
Advanced Specialty Coding Virtual Summit: Anesthesia – This program is approved by the Association of Home Care Coding and Compliance (AHCC) for 7 CEUs towards the maintenance of the ACS, SCP and CCP-P credentials.
AHIMA
This program has been approved for 8 continuing education unit(s) (CEUs) for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).
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