SAVE The Date! Fall Conference Oct. 22, 2010 Laurel View Country Club 2010 AAPC New Haven Local Chapter Officers Officers Profiles click here Officers Responsibilites ----------- Previous program and Meeting's speakers and notes NEXT MEETING: Thursday, March 18th "Cyberknife " Joseph Cardinale, M.D., Dr. Cardinale is the Chairman for the Department of Radiation Therapy at the Hospital of St. Rapheal. Click here for his Presentation Click here for Printable Handouts Vanna M. Dest, MSN, APRN, BC, AOCN  Click here for her Presentation Click here for Printable handouts Click here to see more biographic information   Please join us Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 8AM at the Anlyan Center (TAC) building located at 300 Cedar St. New Haven Registration 8 a.m. Meeting 8:30 a.m . Directions to TAC building ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday March 18th   Dr. Joseph Cardinale ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fall Conference Photos 2010 Officers left to right: Daniel Ott, President-Elect, Donna Persak, New Member Development Officer, Corinne Fisher, Education Officer, Theresa Turcio, President, Patricia Waleski, Secretary, and Kathleen Bartolotta, Treasurer. Click Here for Photo Gallery October 16, 2009 Fall Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) AAPC is a nonprofit association for health care professionals, founded in 1988 to raise the professional standards of coders by providing on going education, recognition and certification. National AAPC has over 13,000 members in all 50 states and internationally Our Goals: To enhance the professional standards for professional coders through continuing education and certification. To increase awareness of the importance of procedural coding for medical practices and facilites and the impact of coding on reimbursement. To provide ongoing support services information and products useful to professional coders. Our Mission Statement: To establish and maintain professional, ethical and educational standards for professional coders. To provide a National Certification and Credentialing process. To support the national and local membership by providing educational products and opportunities to network. To increase and promote national recognition and awareness of health issues. Connecticut Chapter Why we started our chapter? Those of us involved in coding and the healthcare field in general, realized that the responsibilites placed on coders and the emphasis given to CPT-4 and ICD-9 coding has increased tremendously. The accuracy of coding and the comprehension of its impact and importance for compliance and reimbursement have become essential to the physician practices in our area. We wanted to provide knowledge, networking and a certification process to the coding professionals in Connecticut, and to emphasize and promote professionalism and intergrity for our members. This is our eighth year with the AAPC and our membership has grown consistently over that time period. We have established a Board of Directors to provide guidance to our officers, an outreach program for making our presence known in the community and to create a resource of colleagues and mentors within our geographic area.     Previous Meeting programs: Thursday February 18th "Women and Heart Disease " John Elefteriades, M.D., Dr Elefteriades is an internationally known surgeon and is chief of the Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Yale School of Medicine Click Here for Slide Handouts (password required) -------------------------------------------- Thursday January 21st Daphne Neris, CPC, CCS-P, CPC-I the 2010 CPT Changes Click Here for the Powerpoint Presentation Click Here for Printer Ready Presentation Handouts (password required) --------------------------------------------------------- September 17, 2009. Jeffrey S. Pollak, MD, Professor and Co-Chief, Vascular and Interventional Radiology Topic: Interventional Radiology - Uterine Fibroid Embolization SLIDES - Click Here ------------------------------------------------------------------ Trauma Activation Fee's - Where are We Now? June 18, 2009 Carla Carusone, RN Assistant Director Trauma and Surgical Specialities Yale New Haven Hospital view slides click here print slides click here ------------------------------------------------------ Medicare Representatives Q & A May 21, 2009 TAC Auditorium - Anlyan Center 300 Cedar Street Corner of Congress Ave. New Haven, CT 06510 Program Handouts: Document 1..... Document 2 ..... Document 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Kelly AnastasioSpeaker profile Click Here for Power Point Slides Click Here for pdf handout March 19, 2009 -------------------------------------------------- Previous program: Peter G. Whang, M.D. Speaker profile Click Here for Power Point Slides Click Here for pdf handout --------------------------------------------------

 

American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC)

AAPC is a nonprofit association for health care professionals, founded in 1988 to raise the professional standards of coders by providing on going education, recognition and certification. National AAPC has over 13,000 members in all 50 states and internationally

Our Goals:

To enhance the professional standards for professional coders through continuing education and certification.
To increase awareness of the importance of procedural coding for medical practices and facilites and the impact of coding on reimbursement.
To provide ongoing support services information and products useful to professional coders.

Our Mission Statement:

To establish and maintain professional, ethical and educational standards for professional coders.
To provide a National Certification and Credentialing process.
To support the national and local membership by providing educational products and opportunities to network.
To increase and promote national recognition and awareness of health issues.

Why we started our chapter?

Those of us involved in coding and the healthcare field in general, realized that the responsibilites placed on coders and the emphasis given to CPT-4 and ICD-9 coding has increased tremendously. The accuracy of coding and the comprehension of its impact and importance for compliance and reimbursement have become essential to the physician practices in our area. We wanted to provide knowledge, networking and a certification process to the coding professionals in Connecticut, and to emphasize and promote professionalism and intergrity for our members.

This is our eighth year with the AAPC and our membership has grown consistently over that time period. We have established a Board of Directors to provide guidance to our officers, an outreach program for making our presence known in the community and to create a resource of colleagues and mentors within our geographic area.

 

JOSEPH GUY CARDINALE, M.D.
Is Chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Hospital of Saint Raphael and Director of the Physics Section. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Fr. Michael J. McGivney Center for Cancer Care.
Dr. Cardinale graduated in 1980 as an M.D. from New York Medical College and earned his B.S. in 1976 from Manhattan College,New York, Magna Cum Laude in Biology. He is the holder of several patents and has received the Italian American Historical Society of Connecticut Distinguished Service Award, the Hospital of Saint Raphael Medical Staff  Distinguished Service Award, an American Cancer Society Ettinger Fellowship and the David A. Green Award in Medical Oncology
          

VANNA M. DEST, MSN, APRN, BC, AOCN, is an oncology nurse practitioner for the Radiation Oncology Specialists of Southern Connecticut and the Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven, CT. She is also the Program Coordinator for the Cyberknife Center at the Hospital of Saint Raphael. She has been practicing in the field of oncology for the past 25 years.  She is a part-time faculty at Yale School of Nursing for oncology NP students. She co-facilitates many cancer support groups including a General Cancer Support Group for patients and their caregivers, a Prostate Cancer Support Group, a Lung Cancer Support Group & Breast Cancer Support Group. In addition, she co-facilitates many educational programs for patients and their families including the American Cancer Society’s I Can Cope program & Care for the Caregiver program.

Vanna graduated from Sacred Heart Academy in 1980 and received her bachelor’s degree from Southern Connecticut State University in 1984, earned her master’s degree from Yale University in 1992 and, most recently, earned a post-master’s certificate from Yale University in 2002.

Vanna is an active member in the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) and the American Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). She is currently the Chairperson for the ASTRO Nursing Committee (See CV for details).

She has been a volunteer for the American Cancer Society since 1989 and has taken on many roles over the years including the Relay For Life, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, and I Can Cope facilitator & trainer. She has also been a volunteer with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in which she co-facilitated a Leukemia & Lymphoma Support Group for many years and participated in Team in Training.