Urgent Care Fall Mini-Conference: Coding & Startup Tracks (Phoenix, AZ--October 6-7)

Join us at the first annual Urgent Care Association Fall Mini-Conference in Phoenix, AZ at the beautiful Pointe South Mountain Resort on October 6-7, 2006. This should be an intimate conference with excellent opportunities for networking with the faculty. Expected attendance is about fifty urgent care professionals.

Conference registration is still open, but vendor booths are completely sold out. There will be two tracks:

• How to start an urgent care center: Join me for a talk and discussion of basics of managed care contracting. The track includes tours of two different urgent care centers in the Phoenix area. This appears to be the most extensive course ever offered on starting an urgent care center.
• Advanced coding in urgent care: I will be speaking on specialized codes in urgent care and on negotiating problem-based evaluation and management (E/M) coding. Coders, administrators and physicians will all benefit from gaining this knowledge.

My partner John Koehler and I will, also, be speaking at the National Association of Occupational Healthcare Professionals (NAOHP) in Philadelphia on October 23-25. Ryan Associates have requested that we speak on the topic, Benefits and Challenges of the Mixed-Use (occupational medicine and walk-in care) Clinic. Be sure to introduce yourself at the Practice Velocity booth.