Medicare Explained Series Introduction

What are we gonna talk about?

Well, we have a, a program we put together which will be broken up into a whole series of small podcasts or webinars.

You can either watch them all in one long string, or you can pick them out and watch them whatever order you choose.

So the first one is we're gonna go into a little bit about the background behind Medicare and how it actually operates, and what it was, I suppose, why it was created in the first place.

We have a whole podcast dedicated to consultations, how those consultations work, what you can bill in a consultation, and which consultation item number you should be using for skin cancer.

We'll put a session aside for biopsies and investigation item numbers, a session aside for keratinocyte cancers, another one for melanomas.

We'll dedicate a whole session to the non-surgical treatments such as cryotherapy and other non-surgical topical treatments and things like that.

Complex surgery, so flaps and grafts, how do you bill those, which item number, all the traps and tricks with that particular area.

We'll look at some of the billing tools and resources available to doctors, um, and we'll also look at the PSR, APRA, and compliance.

You know, who polices this whole system? And we'll wrap up with our last podcast on medical indemnity.

That sounds busy, doesn't it?

It is busy.

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It will take us a bit to put it together.

There's a lot there.

And again, this is all about how this works for billing and Medicare.

Not trying to say how to use Aldara or Efudex in the non-surgical treatments.

It's about what's the, the billing and the, the financials for these things more than anything else is act- what we're trying to cover.

Correct.

Yeah.

It's the item numbers we use, not whether you should be using that treatment or that treatment.

That's, that's a clinical decision that sits outside of this discussion.