ICD-10 Updates & Medicare’s Final Rule: What You Need to Know
Accredited for 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026
12 – 1 p.m. ET
Members: FREE
Nonmembers: $75
Registration required.
Program description:
Big changes are coming to medical coding and reimbursement in 2026. With 487 new codes, key revisions across multiple specialties, and important documentation clarifications, the ICD-10-CM update will impact providers, coders, and billing professionals. At the same time, Medicare’s Final Rule will reshape payment policies, compliance expectations, and operational workflows.
Objectives:
At the end of this live webinar, attendees will be able to:
- Report on the highlights of the FY 2026 ICD-10-CM updates and how they affect daily coding.
- Explain the key provisions of the Medicare Final Rule and their real-world impact on reimbursement.
- Describe strategies to prepare your team, update workflows, and protect revenue.
Speaker:
Janet Hailey, MHL, CMC, CMCO, CMIS, CMOM, CMCA-E/M
Instructor, Speaker, Independent Consultant
About the speaker:
Jan Hailey has more than 30 years of experience in health care. She has a Master of Health Leadership degree and is proficient in office administration, coding and insurance billing roles, and teaches medical office professionals around the country how to excel in their careers.
During her expansive career, Hailey has led comprehensive interdisciplinary teams, working closely with providers, management, staff, communities, and payers to develop strategies for process improvement, quality gap closures, and patient experience. She developed a documentation improvement program and a Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) coding education program to predict future health care utilization by accurately reporting patient complexity.
Hailey is a WPS Government Health Administrators (Medicare) Provider Outreach and Advisory Group member and serves on Practice Management Institute’s National Advisory Board. She has also been instrumental in the development of Practice Management Institute’s Workforce Initiatives program.
CME INFORMATION
Designation Statement: The Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) designates this live webinar for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Accreditation Statement: The Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Disclosure Policy: In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, educational programs sponsored by the ISMA must demonstrate balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor. Prior to the activity, all faculty, authors, editors and planning committee members participating in an ISMA-sponsored activity are required to disclose to attendees any relevant financial relationships with an “ineligible company” whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Disclosure Statement: No member of the CME Planning Committee or our speaker have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
If you have questions, contact ISMA Continuing Medical Education staff at 800-257-4762 or seminars@ismanet.org.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Jan. 8, 2026 at 11:30 a.m. ET