As I understand it, the main reason that insurance reimbursement should not be discussed in this forum has to do with USA fair trade issues-- if we discuss insurance reimbursement and practices (service and/or diagnosis coding) in this forum we could all be charged with price fixing and such. Having done insurance billing for more than nine years in my husband's medical practice I read plenty about this sort of issue. If two office billing people have a conversation about their billing practices and go forth the wiser it is okay. If multiple offices are involved then all may be charged with having engaged in "price fixing." OTOH, if you have a conference session on best billing practices, have some one explain all the issues involved in chosing an appropriate service and / or diagnosis code, it is education. They can even discuss which practices have netted the best reimbursement rate, etc. (Just don't go from this conference to lunch with other LC's and discuss how all of this will affect your different practices, and the FTC, Federal Trade Commission, will be happy.) It would be fine for someone to do a survey and publish an article in any one of the journals or newsletters about how various practices handle this issue. Again that is educational. In medicine there are several journals which are devoted to this type of information, and there is no problem with them doing surveys and publishing the results by region, type of insurer, etc. Melinda Hoskins, MS, RN Carson Valley, Nevada Snow started falling about 1.5 hours ago and its beautiful. maybe it will all be gone by Monday when I return to work. The Sierra is getting a pounding today.