Agenda
Friday, August 1, 2008
| 2:00-3:00pm | Registration |
| 3:00-3:05 | Introduction Guy Neff, M.D., MBA |
| IMPORTANT LIVER AND HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE | |
| 3:00-3:45 | Fatty Liver: Up to Date in Diagnosis and Management Craig McClain, M.D. |
| 3:45-4:30 |
Managing the Cirrhotic Patient, Updates on HE Therapy: “when and who to refer for transplant” James Trotter, M.D. |
| 4:30-5:15 | Cutaneous and Ocular Manifestations and Pruritus Management Ann Neff, M.D. |
| 5:15-5:30 | Case Presentations and Questions |
| 5:30-6:00 | Dinner Message for the ACG Ohio Governor Norman Gilinsky, M.D. |
| BILLING AND RESOURCE SESSION | |
| 6:00-6:15 | Medicare Requirements in the GI Practice: “The ABCs of Documentation and Billing” Patricia Schwenk |
| 6:15-6:30 | Updated Practice Guidelines for Mid-Level Provider Vickie Zacharias, PA-C |
| 6:30-7:00 | The Practicing Hepatologists/”Increasing Revenue with Your Present Office Staff”/”Attaining and Maintaining Level 4 and 5” Imtiaz Alam, M.D. |
| 7:00-7:30 | Interesting GI Billing Myths and Errors Kathleen A. Mueller, RN, CPC, CCS-P, CCC, CMSCS |
| 7:30-8:00 | Summary of Evening’s Lectures Including “Avoiding and Recovering from the Medicare Audit” Maxine Lewis, CMM, CPC, CPC-I, CCS-P |
| 8:00-8:30 | Case Presentations and Audience Questions |
Saturday, August 2, 2008
| HEPATITIS B AND C VIRUS: DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT | |
| 9:30-10:00am | Registration (Saturday only) |
| 10:00-10:45 | Hepatitis B Virus: Diagnosis and State of the Art Treatment issues Willis Maddrey, M.D. |
| 10:45-11:30 | Evaluating and Managing the Chronic HCV Patient Hugo Vargas, M.D. |
| 11:30-12:00 noon | Managing the Difficult to Treat HCV Patient Rajender Reddy, M.D. |
| 12:00-12:30 | Panel Discussion/Case Presentations |
| 12:30-12:45 | Break |
| 12:45-1:30 | What’s in the Pipeline for HCV Kenneth Sherman, M.D., Ph.D |
| 1:30-2:15 | State of Art Lecture: Hepatology for the Next Decade Eugene Schiff, M.D. |
| 2:15-3:00 | Hepatology: The Cross-Roads: How Do We Survive Willis Maddrey, MD, Rajender Reddy, M.D., Eugene Schiff, M.D., Hugo Vargas, M.D. |
| 4:14 - 5:15 PM
5:30 PM 6:00 PM 7:00 PM |
Dinner at Great Wolf Lodge
Bus Departs for Western & Southern Group Masters Tennis Hors DO’euvres and Drinks under the Tent Tennis Match Begins (Bus will depart after the tennis match) |