Description:
Despite the fact that cardiovascular diseases are largely preventable and treatable through lifestyle change, they remain the leading cause of death globally. In honor of heart health month, this complimentary webinar will showcase how a double boarded internal medicine and lifestyle medicine physician, Dr. Padmaja Patel, is tackling cardiovascular disease in her lifestyle medicine practice with Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation (ICR). Dr. Patel will outline the benefits of delivering lifestyle medicine (LM) to cardiac patients through the reimbursable ICR model and will walk through the steps she took as an internal medicine physician to offer ICR at her LM practice. She will dive into the details of the ICR model of care as well as the billing and coding for ICR as a non-cardiologist. She will wrap up the session highlighting the impressive clinical outcomes and financial benefits of leveraging the ICR model of care. As a result of attending his webinar, viewers will be able to:
- Identify the eligibility criteria of delivering Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation (ICR) for patients and providers
- Describe how the required components of ICR align with the practice of lifestyle medicine
- Summarize how to code and bill for ICR for successful reimbursement
- Discuss the clinical outcomes that are typical as a result of ICR programs
- Recognize whether ICR is a model that would be feasible to deploy in their practices
Speaker:
Padmaja Patel, MD, DipABLM, has been a practicing internist in Midland, TX, for nearly two decades. She completed her E.N.T. training at M.S. University in Baroda, India and her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She currently serves as the Medical Director of the Lifestyle Medicine Center at Midland Health and has been an advocate for offering a variety of comprehensive lifestyle intervention programs under physician supervision.