Handouts

To download final agenda, click uc-liver-forum-final-agenda-08 

To download Welcome and General Information, click welcome-and-general-information08

To download participant roster, click uc-liver-forum-roster-07-29

Friday, August 1

Fatty Liver: Up to Date in Diagnosis and Management
Craig McClain, MD: To down load handout, click on craig-mcclain-md 

Managing the Cirrhotic Patient, Updates on HE Therapy: “when and who to refer for transplant”
James Trotter, MD: To down load handout, click on james-trotter 

Cutaneous and Ocular Manifestations and Pruritus Management
Ann Neff, MD: To down load handout, click on ann-neff-md 

Message from the ACG Ohio Governor
Norman Gilinsky, MD: To down load handout, click on norman-gilinsky 

BILLING AND RESOURCE SESSION

Medicare requirements in the GI Practice: “The ABCs of Documentation and Billing”
Patricia Schwenk: To down load handout, click on patricia-schwenk 

Update Practice Guidelines for Mid-Level Provider
Vickie Zacharias, MS, PA-C: To down load handout, click on victoria-zacharias 

The Practicing Hepatologists/”Increasing Revenue with Your Present Office Staff” / “Attaining and Maintaining Level 4 and 5″
Imtiaz Alam, MD: To down load handout, click on imtiatz-alam-md and the-practicing-hepatologistalam

Interesting GI Billing Myths and Errors
Kathleen A. Mueller, RN, CPC, CCS-P, CCC, CMSCS: To down load handout, click on kathleen-mueller 

Summary of Evening’s Lectures including: “Avoiding and Recovering from the Medicare Audit”
Maxine Lewis, CMM, CPC, CPC-I, CCS-P: To download handout, click on maxine-lewis 

Saturday, August 2

HEPATITUS B AND C VIRUS: DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT

Hepatitis B Virus: Diagnosis and State of the Art Treatment Issues
Willis Maddrey, MD: To down load handout, click on willis-maddrey 

Evaluating and Managing the Chronic HCV Patient
Hugo Vargas, MD: To down load handout, click on hugo-vargas-md 

Managing the Difficult to Treat HCV Patient
Rajender Reddy, MD: To down load handout, click on k-rajender-reddy-md

What’s in the Pipeline for HCV
Kenneth Sherman, MD, PhD: To down load handout, click on kenneth-sherman-md-phd

State of Art Lecture
Hepatology for the Next Decade
Eugene Schiff, MD: To down load hanout, click on eugene-schiff 

Hepatology: The Cross-Roads: How do we Survive
Willis Maddrey, MD, Rajender Reddy, MD, Eugene Schiff, MD, and Hugo Vargas, MD