Injuries, Adverse Effects, Poisonings, & other Consequences of External Causes

Presented by:

Karen Scott, MEd, RHIA, CCS-P, CPC, FAHIMA

This program will cover chapter specific coding conventions and sequencing guidelines and rules relating to injuries, poisonings and other external causes.

Additional emphasis on coding the highest level of specificity will be covered to aid in reporting medical necessity.

A few areas covered include coding:

• Contusions, open wounds, lacerations
• Traumatic injuries including burns
• Insect bites, abrasions, foreign bodies, superficial injuries
• Poisonings and toxic effects of substances
• Procedural complications

Please bring your ICD-10-CM manual to class for participation in the exercises. This class is open only to participating MetroCare physician members and their staff.

Date:             Friday, November 8, 2019

Time:            1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.     

Location:     MetroCare Education Room

                      1661 International Place, Suite #200 (Second Floor)

Registration: http://metrocarephysicians.com

HIPAA/OSHA TRAINING and NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION: November 21

Presented by:

Donna Pendergrass, MD, CPCO, CPPM 

HIPAA/OSHA rules and Fraud/Waste/Abuse training are required by law for a compliant medical practice.

MetroCare is providing a monthly session in our classroom for new employees or those employees who need their annual training update in our MetroCare member practices. We deliver the training, test for competency and provide a certificate of completion.  We hope you will take advantage of this and find it useful on an ongoing basis.

• OSHA: Maintaining a safe and healthy workplace through sound work practices and adherence to OSHA standards
• HIPAA: Protecting patient privacy and practice confidentiality and compliance
• Medicare Compliance Basics: Medicare cards, ABN, fraud/waste/abuse

***** The morning session from 8:30-11:00 is HIPAA/OSHA Training for anyone from your practice who needs an update in addition to new employees********

Date:               Thursday, November 21, 2019

Time:               8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Location:        MetroCare Education Room

                        1661 International Place, Suite #200

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A Focus on Specific HCC Coding Problems

for Physicians/NPs/PAs

             Presented by: Karen Scott, MEd, RHIA, CCS-P, CPC, FAHIMA

As healthcare spending steadily increases, the effort to predict the cost of care for your patients is becoming more important and figures heavily in value-based contracting, not only for Medicare plans where this began, but also for an increasing number of commercial contracts.

***This narrow program will focus on specific ways that you can affect your risk  adjustment/cost evaluations based on data from our own CIN Trilogy claims. ***

Karen will address:

• The important role of combination codes in diabetes and CVD
• Non-specific phrases/codes to be avoided, if at all possible
• Pitfalls in documentation that prevent accurate coding and how you can monitor on your own

Date:               Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Time:               6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Location:        MetroCare Education Room

                        1661 International Place, Suite #200

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Contact Person: Donna Pendergrass

901-261-7796

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2020 CPT Procedure Coding Updates

December 13, Session I

Presented by: Karen Scott, MEd, RHIA, CCS-P, CPC, FAHIMA

As the new year approaches it brings that important time for coding changes and updates. Join us to prepare for the CPT4 changes and coding compliance issues with expert, Karen Scott.

Areas covered will include:

•           New, revised and deleted codes

•           Review of guideline changes

•           Clarification of code usage

•           Class exercises

Two sessions will be offered on this day and a third on the next Friday morning.

The same information will be presented at each session to provide an opportunity for practice staff to attend a session. (Please sign up for only one session)

These sessions are open only to MetroCare participating providers and their staff.

Date:              Friday, December 13, 2019

Time:            9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Location:     MetroCare Education Room

                       1661 International Place, Suite #200

Bring your 2019 CPT4 manual if you have received it.

Contact Person: Donna Pendergrass 901-261-7796   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

2020 CPT Procedure Coding Updates

December 13, Session II

Presented by: Karen Scott, MEd, RHIA, CCS-P, CPC, FAHIMA

As the new year approaches it brings that important time for coding changes and updates. Join us to prepare for the CPT4 changes and coding compliance issues with expert, Karen Scott.

Areas covered will include:

•           New, revised and deleted codes

•           Review of guideline changes

•           Clarification of code usage

•           Class exercises

Two sessions will be offered on this day and a third on the next Friday morning.

The same information will be presented at each session to provide an opportunity for practice staff to attend a session. (Please sign up for only one session)

These sessions are open only to MetroCare participating providers and their staff.

Date:              Friday, December 13, 2019

Time:            1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Location:     MetroCare Education Room

                       1661 International Place, Suite #200

Bring your 2019 CPT4 manual if you have received it.

Contact Person: Donna Pendergrass 901-261-7796   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.