Upcoming events

Documentation and Coding for Pediatrics 2026 Presented by: Karen Scott, MEd, RHIA, CCS-P, CPC, FAHIMA ****REPEAT OF FEB 2026 PROGRAM NO NEW CEU**** The session will review CPT4 and ICD-10-CM coding for Pediatrics with special attention to pediatric quality measures that are part of our value-based contracts. New and existing CPT4 and ICD-10 coding processes, sequencing guidelines, rules, and regulations as well as coding conventions and interpretations affecting appropriate diagnostic code assignment will be discussed. If there are applicable topics or questions that you wish to be addressed, please forward those at least a week prior to the session to make sure they are covered. Please bring your CPT 4 and ICD-10-CM coding manuals for class exercises. Date: Friday, July 10 Time: 1:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Location: Online only. Zoom link will be sent one day prior. ****3 CEUs available by request*** **This series of courses is open only to participating MetroCare physician members and their staff. Contact Person: Donna Pendergrass 261-7794, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

“Pencils, Pressure, and Panic: Mental Health at Back to School.”

Dr. Alicia Barnes, DO, MPH

July 15 12:15-1:00 PM 

Online Presentation. Zoom link will be emailed to registrants one day prior .

Anxiety affects 1 in 4 children and is now the most common mental health diagnosis in youth, prompting new recommendations for routine screening in pediatric and primary care settings.

Dr. Barnes will help our community prepare for the back‑to‑school season with a timely and practical talk to explore how schools, healthcare providers, and communities can better recognize anxiety, reduce stress, and support children as they return to the classroom.

Dr. Alicia Barnes, DO, MPH, is the Urban Child Institute Endowed Chair of Excellence in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Associate Professor at University of Tennessee Health Science Center.Chief of Psychiatry at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, she leads multisector mental healthinitiatives with a system of care approach, and serves in leadership roles on the Executive Boardfor AACAP and as President of the Tennessee Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

 

2025 Coding Preventive Services for Commercial and Medicare Plans Presented by: Karen Scott, MEd, RHIA, CCS-P, CPC, FAHIMA The focus for preventive medicine services is to promote and maintain the well-being and health of patients to reduce risk of disease and disability. But preventive care also allows an opportunity for proper reporting of chronic disease burden in your practice population, allowing payers to more adequately estimate future resource use and cost of care for your patients. This can figure heavily in shared savings contracts and MIPS fee schedule adjustment calculations. Karen will review What are considered preventive services for Medicare vs commercial plans and the proper codes to report Guidelines for documentation to successfully code/report all required parts of the IPPE/AWV Who may perform various parts of the AWV Special topics: Services that are bundled in the preventive codes Addressing preventive services and an acute problem discovered on the same day Immunizations, Injections, and Lab documenting and coding for medical necessity Date: Friday July 17 Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Location: online only. Link will be emailed to registrants one day prior ***** 3 CEU clock hours are available. ***** Contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

CODING CHRONIC DISEASE IN 2026: Diabetes, HTN, CKD, and Obesity 3 hour program Presented by: Karen Scott, MEd, RHIA, CCS-P, CPC, FAHIMA The prevalence of these four diseases in our part of the country, and their interactions merit special attention for documentation and coding to demonstrate a realistic picture of the health of so many of our patients. These four diseases have far-reaching effects not only in the care of our patients, but in the quality performance and cost valuations in commercial and government payer contracts. This session will discuss: Proper use of combination codes for reporting these interactive issues, which drive cost expectations by the payers Proper reporting of CPTII codes that can show treatment outcomes for quality Proper reporting of ICD + CPTII for obesity diagnoses and the effects of chronic disease on BMI level when choosing an obesity vs morbid obesity diagnosis and reporting a diagnosis without a BMI Specific questions regarding the number of combo codes you can report, reporting combo codes when all of these are present, how to report CPTII codes Date: July 17 Time: 1:00 to 4:00 Location: Online only. Link will be emailed to registrants one day prior to event. 3 hour CEU will be available for certified coding or mgt **This series of courses is open only to participating MetroCare Physicians members and their staff.

DEFENSE AGAINST DOWNCODING: Reporting E & M Levels 4 and 5 in 2026

July 21

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

Physicians: We want to help you continue to be paid appropriately for all of the work that you do to provide the best care for your patients. New tactics are being used by payers to lower the E&M levels that you report and pay at that level without even considering additional documentation.

Karen will review in detail and lead a discussion around what constitutes E&M levels 4 and 5 and how you can best document to protect your claims coding based on medical decision making. Time documentation will also be discussed.

Due to the brief time scheduled for this session, please try to log in on time so that we may start promptly.
 
Attention will be given to definitions and details of level determining elements of problems, data, and risk 

Dates:               July 21 OR   Aug   6                

Time:               12:15 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.  WE WILL START PROMPTLY AT 12:15                  

 Location:        Online only. Link will be emailed to registrant 1 day prior.

**This course is open only to participating MetroCare Physicians members and their staff. 1 hours CEUs will be available.

Contact Person: Donna Pendergrass

   901-261-7796

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