Course 1 - Starting a New Urgent Care Center
This course will immerse you in the realities, opportunities and challenges of opening a new urgent care center – learn from the mistakes of those who have gone before you.
- Obtaining Financing – bank loans and other options
- Hospital-based centers attend a hospital-focused session during this module
- Budgeting Revenues and Expenses realistically
- Selecting the Perfect Site
- Legal Issues and Pitfalls to Avoid
- Setting up Your Clinic (2-part session)
- Marketing Strategies
- Obtaining Managed Care Contracts
- Understanding Urgent Care Billing
- Faculty Roundtable – Answering the Unanswered Questions
Detailed Agenda - Detailed Session Objectives
Faculty: Renee Lohman, Janice Jackson, Dr. Vanessa McKenzie, Dr. Sandra Randolph, Alan Ayers, MBA, MAcc, Patrice Pash, RN, Stacy Calvaruso, Dr. John Shufeldt, Sam Yates, Dr. David Stern
Course 2 - Essential Topics in Urgent Care Medicine - NEW
Enhance your diagnostic and treatment skills with this new course developed BY urgent care clinicans FOR urgent care clincians. Topics covered include:
- Wound care
- X-ray cases
- Drug-seeking patients
- Adult skin rashes
- Wrist injuries
- Chest pain
- Pharyngitis and its complications
- Shoulder pain and injuries
- UTI's and kidney stones
Detailed Agenda - Detailed Session Objectives
Faculty: Dr. Jake Block, Dr. Phil Disraeli, Dr. Keith Ellis, Dr. John Huber, Dr. Gregg Mitchell, Dr. Avi Reddy, Dr. Lee Resnick, Dr. Mark Rogers and Dr. Joe Toscano
Course 3 - Strategic Marketing for Urgent Care
Newly updated for 2008, this program will help you develop a viable marketing plan for your center in your market - plus provide essential techniques for reaching new audiences, working in multimedia and using your patients and staff to your best advantage.
- Assess your clinics for your unique strategic advantages
- Advertising vs. results - what makes a great ad
- Financial essentials - spending and measuring return on your investment
- Your center and the social media revolution
- Handling media interviews
- Developing long and short term marketing campaigns
Detailed Agenda - Detailed Session Objectives
Faculty: Sam Yates and Dr. Ira Bloomfield
Course 4 - Urgent Care Coding Basics- NEW
Good coding is a key to success in urgent care – but the specific knowledge, skills and understanding of the uniqueness of urgent care practice are what makes this a “must have” course for anyone interested in appropriate and timely reimbursement.
This course is primarily for those new to urgent care coding – whatever your position. Topics covered will include:
- E/M Coding in detail – history, physicals, complexity & decision making, and the toughest part – putting it all together
- ICD-9 Coding
- Specialized coding – radiology, labs, ophthalmology, fractures, lacerations
- Modifiers, the keys to payment
The course concludes with a Q&A session with faculty to make sure you go home with all of your questions answered.
Detailed Agenda - Detailed Session Objectives
Faculty: David Stern, MD, CPC; Patti Walkover, RN, MS, CPC; Kevin Solinsky, CPC, CPC-I, CPC-ED; Kim Ramirez, CPC-I, CPC-H-I, MPC; Kenny Engel, CPC, CHC, ACS-EM, CCP-P; Stacy Calvaruso, CPAM; Judy Richardson, RN, MSA, CCS-P
Course 5 - Advanced Urgent Care Coding - NEW
This new program is for all of you who know that the basics are ultimately not enough – the complexity of urgent care demands much more advanced knowledge to really do your coding job well.
Each session is designed as a true workshop – bring your ICD-9, CPT and HCPCS books with you.
Sessions are all at an advanced level and include:
- Training providers
- Specific situations – coding pediatrics, advanced fracture and integumentary coding, IV hydration & nebulizer therapy, critical care
- Technical challenges – modifiers -25/-57, ICD-9 issues, E/M coding challenges and other “coding conundrums”
The course concludes with a Roundtable Discussion with faculty to make sure you go home with all of your questions answered.
Detailed Agenda - Detailed Session Objectives
Faculty: David Stern, MD, CPC; Patti Walkover, RN, MS, CPC; Kevin Solinsky, CPC, CPC-I, CPC-ED; Kim Ramirez, CPC-I, CPC-H-I, MPC; Kenny Engel, CPC, CHC, ACS-EM, CCP-P; Stacy Calvaruso, CPAM; Judy Richardson, RN, MSA, CCS-P
Fall Conference Course Tuition Information
Fall Conference Course |
Early Tuition 7/15-8/1
Mem/Non |
Regular Tuition 8/2-8/29
Mem/Non |
Late Tuition 8/30-9/23*
Mem/Non |
Comprehensive Clinic Startup
(includes clinic tour) |
800/850 |
900/950 |
995/1045 |
| Essential Clinical Topics |
650/700 |
750/800 |
850/900 |
| Marketing Your Center |
650/700 |
750/800 |
850/900 |
| Coding Basics |
650/700 |
750/800 |
850/900 |
| Advanced Coding |
650/700 |
750/800 |
850/900 |
Tuition includes course materials, continuing education credit, access to exhibit hall, breakfasts & breaks, light lunches, and opening and closing receptions.
Continuing Education Credits
UCAOA will provide up to 11.5 hours of continuing medical education credit for the Fall Conference. Specific additional credits are listed below or are pending and will be announced here as they are available.
- American Academy of Family Physicians
This activity has been reviewed and is acceptable for 11.50 to 11.25 credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians. *Marketing course is 11.25, all others are 11.50.
- American Academy of Professional Coders
This program has prior approval of the American Academy of Professional Coders
for 11.0 Continuing Education Units. Granting of this approval in no way constitutes endorsement by the
Academy of the program, content or the program sponsor.
Registration Details
Registrations can only be processed with a payment. The tuition price will be reflected by the date we receive payment.
Group Discounts
A group discount is applied to groups of four or more individuals registering simultaneously and with a single payment. The overall payment is discounted by 20% to all individuals in this group. Registration and tuition must be received by the dates shown for discount pricing to take effect. Additional individuals from the same organization who register after the main group registration will not receive the group discount (must be a simultaneous registration with original single payment). Any changes or additions to original registrants may be subject to registration fees in effect at time of change or addition, but will include original 20% discount.
Cancellation Policy
A 20% tuition penalty is assessed if notification of cancellation is not received by September 1, 2008. Applying tuition to a future UCAOA course will lower the penalty to $75, if received by September 12, 2008 (UCAOA will put the balance of the tuition into a “Hold Account” to be drawn upon at a future date). After September 12, tuition is non-refundable. Membership fees are non-refundable.
*Registrations after September 23
After September 23rd, registrations will be accepted on a walk-in basis only, on-site at the program, and will be accepted pending space available and payment is required at time of walk-in. We cannot “hold a space” via phone, fax, e-mail etc. after September 23rd. Walk-in registrations will be at late registration pricing and are subject to an additional $100 walk-in registration fee.
Course Materials
One copy of the course materials will be issued to each individual participant. Participants must be on-site and attending in order to receive their individual course materials.
