SIR Revenue Cycle Management

Navigating the IR revenue cycle to increase your bottom line

January 24-25, 2025
Emory Conference Center Hotel
1615 Clifton Rd, Atlanta

Unlock financial control and revenue growth in your IR practice. 

Master the fundamentals of healthcare reimbursement, coding and billing to strengthen your practice's financial foundation. Physicians and healthcare business leaders often face challenges due to limited training in revenue cycle management. This course offers hands-on learning to bridge these knowledge gaps and provides essential tools for effective financial literacy.

What can you expect?

• Improve revenue outcomes: learn actionable skills to identify and recover missed revenue.
• Engage in informed conversations: gain confidence in discussing revenue needs with administrators.
• Build systems for accurate payment: put effective structures in place to ensure you’re paid for the work you do.

Whether you’re working in academic practice, a hospital-based private practice, or a hybrid setting, this course provides adaptable strategies that apply to any practice model.

Physician leaders | Business leaders | IR Coding Academy

Course overview: two pathways for focused learning

Physician leader's pathway

This pathway empowers physician leaders to address and overcome financial challenges in their practices. The course will cover:

• Reimbursement models: learn payment structures for inpatient, hospital outpatient and office-based labs.
• Device and service reimbursement: understand how device costs are bundled in IR procedures and the impact of contracts with facilities and payers.
• Insurance and coding knowledge: dive into policy impacts on coding, prior authorization, denials and appeals.
• Internal operations: gain insights into SIR processes, including CPT® and RUC to understand better how CPT® codes are developed and valued.

Who should attend? This pathway is ideal for physicians at any career stage, across all practice types—academic, hospital-based private practice, or hybrid hospital/OBL.

Business leader's pathway

Tailored for healthcare business leaders, this pathway teaches strategic financial management for practices with a focus on OBL economics. Topics include:

• Regulatory insights: understand ASC vs. OBL regulations to confidently structure your practice.
• Partnerships and growth: weigh the pros and cons of specialty partnerships and learn how to market and grow your practice effectively.
• Optimizing APPs and E/M coding: maximize the role of Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) and refine E/M coding practices for better revenue capture.
• Compensation and fair market value: Navigate stipend structures, compensation models and fair market value in physician contracts.

Who should attend? This course pathway is designed for practice administrators across all practice setting types.

Secure your spot today to transform your practice’s financial future!

Register now to claim discounted rates and start building a financially sustainable future for your practice.

Register for Revenue Cycle Management

IR Coding Academy

After the live course, continue learning with IR Coding Academy, a self-paced training program designed to deepen your coding expertise. This on-demand training includes:

• Coding best practices: detailed instruction for coding IR procedures and E&M services.
• Specialty-specific training: courses covering SIR clinical specialty councils, including IO, neuro, pain/MSK, PAD, renal/GU, venous and women’s and men's health.

Master coding skills at your own pace with a curriculum designed to optimize revenue and streamline claims in your practice.

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Program planning chair

C. Matthew Hawkins, MD, FSIR
Pediatric Interventional Radiology
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta