News from the Georgia Chapter

  July 15, 2010

• Pediatrics by the Sea Set for June 16-19!   Thank you for attending our annual spring CME meeting Pediatrics by the Sea, last month at The Ritz- Carlton on Amelia Island.  We appreciate you joining us for this educational event. We hope you found it both informative and enjoyable. Please mark your calendars for next year’s edition of Pediatrics by the Sea, June 15-18, 2011 at The Ritz-Carlton.

• Georgia Pediatric Practice Managers and Nurses Fall Meeting to be held on November 5th:  The Fall Meeting of the GPNA & GPPMA will be held in Atlanta at the Cobb Galleria Centre on November 5th.  Please mark your calendar for this educational and networking event planned for and by pediatric practice managers and nurses.  Details to come.

• The Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH) has contracted with HP Enterprise Services (HP) to serve as the new Medicaid fiscal agent to begin November 1, 2010. To learn about critical transition information and preview the new Georgia Health Partnership Web Portal and billing software, training and implementation workshops are scheduled August 2010 through October 2010. Providers are urged to bring or send their practice managers, billing staff, office administrators and front office staff to at least one workshop. Sessions will be held throughout Georgia and will provide information on the November 1, 2010 transition. This information includes: 

  Changes in Fiscal Agent Responsibilities

  • Key implementation dates that may affect your daily operations
  • New billing requirements
  • New mailing addresses and contact information
  • New EDI requirements that need to be shared with your billing agents, software vendors and trading partners
  • How to submit and review various transactions on the new Web Portal including:
  • Claims
  • Prior Authorizations
  • Referrals
  • Provider Enrollment
  • New claims submission software

  Attendees must individually register to reserve a seat. To register on line please go to the Provider Readiness Web Portal located at http://providerinfo.mmis.georgia.gov/providerprereadiness/home.aspx and select the workshop registration link. Upon receipt of your registration, a confirmation notice will be sent via email to the address provided on the registration. To register via USPS you must complete and return the registration form.

  Questions regarding the workshops can be sent via e mail to GAworkshopregistration@hp.com. Please monitor future communications for related information posted at http://providerinfo.mmis.georgia.gov/providerprereadiness/home.aspx. 

• 2010 State Legislative Session Concludes:  The Georgia General Assembly wraped up on April 29.  To review the events of this year's session, click on our Legislative Affairs page.

• Chapter Webpage for Updates on Novel H1N1 Influenza (Last Update: March 18, 2010):  Click here for H1N1 influenza updates and information.

• Free ASQ & ASQ SE Training for your Staff: The Division of Public Health in conjunction with Georgia’s Early Childcare Systems Grant (ECCS) has conducted training around the newly updated Ages & Stages Questionnaires and Ages & Stages Questionnaires/Social Emotional (ASQ SE).  The Chapter participated in this training along with representatives from local public health districts and state agencies.  These trainers are available to train your staff on the new ASQ standardized screening tool and offer additional information on screening children through ASQ SE standardized social emotional screening tool.  If you are interested in having a trainer meet with your staff to review these tools, please contact Fozia Khan Eskew at 404-881-5074 or feskew@gaaap.org

• New Board Members Seated:  New board members Minor Vernon, MD, Macon; Iris Basilio, MD, Columbus;  Angela Highbaugh-Battle, MD, Hazelhurst; and Alan Glassman, MD, Athens took their seats at the Board of Directors meeting on October 29th. They are part of the Class of 2012 who were elected in June. Welcome aboard and thank you for serving the Chapter.

• Kudos!.........to these Chapter members on their recent accomplishments:  Peter Fischbach, MD, Atlanta, recently elected as vice president of the Pediatric Congenital Electrophysiology Society...Charles Linder, MD, Augusta, received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Medical College of Ga...William Mahle, MD, Atlanta elected vice president of the Pediatric Heart Transplant Study Group...Dennis Murray, MD, Augusta, recently elected chair of the Section on Infectious Disease and the author of an article in the April AAP News on coding for consultants…and Robert Vincent, MD, Atlanta, on his election as president of the Georgia Chapter of the American College of Cardiology.

     To reach us....

Georgia Chapter
American Academy of Pediatrics

 1330 West Peachtree Street NW, Suite 500

Atlanta, Georgia 30309-2904
    Office hrs. 8:30am - 5:00pm EST   

Phone: 404-881-5020     Fax: (404) 249-9503

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