OANJ Spring Virtual Conference
Sunday, June 06, 2021, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM EDT
Category: Events
Coding and Billing Post-Cataract Eyewear DME Medicare Claims for the Optical Dispensary Hours: 1 hour Course Unites: 1:00 Type of presentation: Lecture Presenter: Pamela B Fritz
This interactive course gives opticians and billers the step-by-step process of how to submit DME Medicare claims for post-operative cataract eyewear patients' purchase and how to maximize patient benefit reimbursements for the optical. Learn line-by-line claim entry, which items are covered and non-covered, use of modifiers and how to minimize claim rejection. Commercial Medicare Advantage programs are discussed. DME Supplier compliance, enrollment, timeline claim filing, and the top claim rejection codes will be viewed. Handout: 2021 DME NJ V Code work sheet.
Frame Inventory: Management, Margins and Marketing Hours: 1 hour Course Unites: 1:00 Type of presentation: Lecture Presenter: Pamela B Fritz Learn how much frame inventory to carry and how to determine frame mix by patient Demographic. Why frame inventory software is critical. Setting and adjusting your frame budget. Keep you inventory fresh and timely and weeding out the “dogs”. Working with frame reps and board space. Determining frame prices, mark-up and margins. Special frame categories: insurance frames, second pair sales, Free Frame promotions. Protocol for patient using their own frames. Examples of frame marketing and merchandising will be shown.
Don’t Let your Lens Cost of Goods Wreck your Bottom Line Hours: 1 hour Course Unites: 1:00 Type of presentation: Lecture Presenter: Pamela B Fritz The importance of auditing your lens sales. How to track lab invoices against patient invoices. Controlling the cost of goods of lenses. Offering the Good, Better Best Lens Tiers. Lens pricing, margins and lens discounting policies and protocols. The beauty of Lens Packaging. Ala-cart pricing verses lens packages. Suffering the insurance write offs and adjustments. Taking advantage of your Lab’s lens specials, 2nd pair pricing and manufacturer’s rewards programs. Why optical software is critical to track your optical lens products.
Blood Borne Pathogens
Hours: 1 hour Course Unites: 1:00 Type of presentation: Lecture Presenter: William Velardi, Jr. OD
As health care workers we are all at risk of coming in contact with blood borne pathogens. It will be the intent of this class to review the three big blood borne pathogens, HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C, how they are transmitted and what to do if you think you have been exposed to any of them. We will also touch briefly on some less popular pathogens as well. And in these uncertain times, we will touch on SARS-CoV2, A.K.A. the Corona virus as well. While Corona is not a blood borne pathogen but a respiratory one, it is one that can be avoided by taking the correct simple precautions. We will take a quick look at the anatomy of the lacrimal system and tears and their role, or not, in the transmission of SARS - CoV2. And lastly, we will cover blood borne pathogens and Covid with regards to the wearing and the fitting [which includes insertion and removal training] of contact lenses.
Objective
"What Else you can do with a Contact Lens"
Hours: 2 hour Course Unites: 2:00 Type of presentation: Lecture Presenter: William Velardi, Jr. OD
We all know about using contact lenses as a way of correcting an ametropia. Along with this "everyday" use come many lesser-known specialty uses for contact lenses. Uses such as, corneal rehabilitation, medication delivery and systemic and ocular medical condition monitoring, just to name a few. In these two hours we will cover these and a few other topics and we will also delve into an old use and design of contact lens that has made a resurgence in recent years, scleral lenses. Scleral lenses when used to treat keratoconus can be a life altering experience for our patients. They can give our patients back the vision they have not had in many years. Vision that some were told they would probably never have again.
Objectives o Be able to identify less conventional uses of contact lenses o Explain the impact of cosmetic contact lenses for a deformed eye
Speaker Bios: Pamela B. Fritz, {resident of Ophthalmology Resources, is an optical industry expert who has implemented successful management strategies in hundreds of independent optical dispensaries nationwide. She is a recognized authority in both Medicare and DME Medicare and serves as the optical industry representative on the education panel for MAC Contractor Noridian. Fritz was named, “50 of the most influential women in the optical industry” by Jobson Publishing and received an Achievement Award from The American Academy of Ophthalmology. She speaks at the AAO, the NJAO and most recently the EyeCare Leaders national conference in Colorado.
William Velardi. Jr., OD Dr. Velardi has been a therapeutic licensed Optometrist for the past 30 years. After graduating from Seton Hall Univ., he went on to get his OD degree at the Illinois College of Optometry in 1991. He began his career as a solo practice owner in Clifton where he stayed for several years. He then moved on to Delaware into an OD/MD practice and from there went on to practice in various military settings as both a contractor and government employee. He is currently practicing at Fort Eustis in Newport News Virginia and just recently moved to Williamsburg where he lives with his wife Lisa. Dr. Velardi has been an adjunct professor in Ophthalmic Science at Raritan Valley Community College for those same 30 years. He currently teaches Ocular Anatomy, Optics and Contact Lenses 1 all online and has been doing so for the past 15 years. He has also been a guest lecturer multiple times for the OANJ.
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