Gatlinburg, TN May 18-20, 2018 (Pre-Conference 17th)

Tennessee Healthcare Conference

Earn Up To

2 2 CEUs

Fun, Informative & Relevant!

MCHC is pleased to offer three tiers of registration to our annual Tennessee Healthcare Conference. Attendees can choose a

registration tier that fits their needs and amenity desires. We here at MCHC continue to build a customizable conference

experience to fit everyone while maintaining our affordable price.

What better way to meet and network with your peers than early

morning priority check in. This permits you to bypass the long lines at the registration desk and go straight to your reserved seat allowing a

little more rest before an exciting conference day. An MCHC personal concierge will assist you during the three-day event including a daily

continental breakfast, hot coffee made to perfection and ice cold water throughout each day of the conference while snuggled up with a

MCHC concierge blanket. Concierge guest will not need to worry about printing presentations and organizing them ahead of the

conference as they will receive a conference binder containing all presentations including those you are not able to attend. Concierge

attendees receive a high- quality tote bag containing a zipper to secure sensitive materials. Many pouches lining the outer sides of the bag

provide for easy storage and access to cell phones, pens, business cards and more. Be on the lookout for special treats and amenities

throughout the day as your personal concierge strives to make your conference experience a comforting and memorable one.

Tier 1 - Concierge Level: $295 (Limited Seating)

CONCIERGE

Standard: Our Standard registration has been given two thumbs up with our

original open-seating style (open, first come first serve, with a table) while providing links to printable presentations. This is most familiar to those that have attended an event in the past as it was our signature conference registration providing an informative and fun conference

experience at an affordable rate.

Basic: Our basic registration attendees save reasonably while attending all general sessions and sessions A topics. This provides a conference

experience at a fraction of the cost. Attendees will receive theater-style seating and links to printable presentations.

Tier 2 - Standard Level: $195 Tier 3 - Basic Level: $155

Registration Levels Continued:

Venue Information:

Overlooking the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the City of Gatlinburg, the Park Vista is a true mountain experience. Take a stroll through the beautifully landscaped gardens surrounding the hotel or relax in an Adirondack chair while enjoying the serenity of a Smoky Mountain sunset, with the Gatlinburg city lights illuminating the Smoky Mountain valley below or take a swim in the oversized, cascading pool. The Park Vista location provides a welcoming experience for everyone. Whether you want to take a stroll along the streets of Gatlinburg, explore the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail, or even the Smoky Mountain Rafting.

Nearest Airports

14 miles: Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge Airport (GKT / KGKT) 41 miles: McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS / KTYS)

47 miles: Moore-Murrell Airport (MOR / KMOR) 97 miles: Asheville Regional Airport (AVL / KAVL) 103 miles: Tri-Cities Regional Airport (TRI / KTRI)

145 miles: Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP / KGSP)

705 Cherokee Orchard Road - Gatlinburg, TN 37738 (865-436-9211 )

The Park Vista - Double Tree by Hilton

Experience The Smokies: The life of luxury doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. One breath of the fresh mountain air and you’ll see the best things in life are free. The hiking stats are amazing: 150 trails and 800 miles of Smoky Mountain terrain to take on. Every trail promises a new adventure. Speaking of adventures, there are plenty to find all around Gatlinburg. Take a sip of the good life at the wineries, breweries, and distilleries. Raft a river. Zip line. Sink a putt during mini-golf or swing away at Gatlinburg Golf Course. Get aquatic at one of the world’s best aquariums. In Gatlinburg, you’ll never run out of amazing things to do.

Nearby Information:

Nearby Hotels: • Oak Leaf Lodging • The Edgewater Hotel • Sidney James Mountain Lodge • Sleep Inn & Suites • Sleepy Bear Motel • The Redwood Retreat • Tudor Inn Gatlinburg

• Twin Creek RV Resort • Zoder’s Inn & Suites • Baskins Creek Nestle Inn • Baymont Inn & Suites • Bearskin Lodge On The River • Clarion Inn & Suites • Courtyard By Marriott

Nearby Restaurants: • Calhoun’s Restaurant • Cherokee Grill & Steakhouse • The Peddler Steakhouse • Bennett’s Pit Bar-B-Que • Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. • Loco Burro Fresh Mex Catina • Three Jimmy’s Restaurant

• No Way Jose’s Cantina • Smoky Mountain Trout House • Mountain Lodge Restaurant • The Park Grill • Dick’s Last Resort • Crystelle Creek Restaurant • Alamo Steakhouse & Saloon

Things To Do: • Cooter’s Place In The Smokies • Guy Micheals Gatlinburg Comedy Theater • Motion Ride Movie Theater • Gatlinburg Aerial Tramway • Gatlinburg Mountain Coaster • Gatlinburg Sky Lift

• Guinness World Of Records Museum • Ripley’s Aquarium • Sweet Fanny Adams Theatre & Music • Ripley’s Mirror Maze • Ripley’s Haunted Adventure • Davy Crockett Mini Golf

What’s New:

Cole the Coding Bear! Cole will make his grand appearance for his favorite group of coders at the 2018 Conference! Meet with Cole, Snap a Picture, and Give a hug!

Icebreaker Games! Join us at 8:00am on Day 1 of the conference and get to know your fellow coders with MCHC’s Icebreaker Games! We will break the silence and work on communication and team work!

Networking Opportunities! Attendees can take this time to expand their professional circle, meet individuals with different experience levels or backgrounds.

Decade’s Day! Grab your love beads, your old forty fives, dust off your bell bottoms for a party that jives! Create your favorite vintage inspired costume as we learn the grooves of coding!

Celebration Day! May 19th, Get your tickets, play games and win prizes as we celebrate a successful 2018 Tennessee Healthcare Conference Carnival style! MCHC will provide each attendee with a conference T-Shirt to wear on Day 3 of conference. By wearing the T-Shirt you will be entered for a chance to win FREE admission to the 2019 Conference.

Joseph Newsome, CPC, COC, CPCO, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC President / Senior Instructor Joseph, of St. Augustine, Florida, is a well-known member of the coding and compliance community, with over 14 years of progressive and diverse responsibility in Academic Institutions, including operations management, administration, and compliance. Mr. Newsome is an international trainer and key note speaker. He is a frequent speaker and author for nationally recognized professional organizations and publications with an emphasis on evaluation and management, auditing and compliance.

Prior to joining MCHC, Joseph managed a large medical management corporation in Southern California, where he was responsible for the implementation and maintenance of the coding and billing operations / compliance program. He also served on the Advisory Board for United Education Institute and co-founded the Inland Empire Coders Association.

Diana R. Phelps, CPC, CPC-I CEMC Approved AAPC ICD-10-CM Instructor Diana (Di) has over 18 years experience in teaching medical coding. She teaches in San Bernardino, CA at National University. In 1994 she earned a Coding Specialist Certificate from the Loma Linda University School of Allied Health. Diana worked for Loma Linda University Medical Center for over 30 years. She has worked in Pediatrics, Orthopedics, Multi-Specialties, and the Compliance Department, auditing physician’s documentation, and providing coding support and training for physicians and residents.

She has held a variety of positions at LLUMC AAPC local chapter. She remains active in speaking at local chapter meetings in Southern California, teaching coding, ICD-10-CM Boot camps and doing seminars in different areas. Karrie May, CPC, CPMA, CRC Karrie has been in the medical field for over 20 years, certified coder for the past 16 years. She started working for insurance companies. She has worked in physician offices and done off site billing. Currently works at home for Change Healthcare as a Provider Education Specialist. Performs audits and educates providers from multi-specialties. Have worked in all specialties from ENT, Neuro, Cardiology, Ortho, Podiatry, Dermatology, and various others.

Presenters:

Kim Toole, CPC CPMA CEMC - Picture Coming Soon! Kim has worked in the medical field for 36 years. Her career began as a transcriptionist for a home health agency in South Georgia. Six years later, she decided to make a bold career shift and endeavored to work with physicians by becoming a certified medical assistant. Her niche was in coding and billing for a private practice family practitioner, but credits a “100-year” flood for changing her career forever. During a transition from private to corporate practice, her physician’s office was destroyed by the flood causing them to move sooner than expected. The hospital corporation provided an unexpected opportunity as a coding coordinator allowing her to pursue the certified professional coder (CPC) certification in 1998. Auditing and teaching became her newest career. Several years later she obtained the certified evaluation and management coder (CEMC) and certified professional medical auditor certifications (CPMA). She worked relentlessly to gain the respect of 250+ physicians and mid-levels of various specialties within the hospital corporation and in the medical community. Many called her a “coding guru” -- so much so that even in the grocery store she would be stopped to answer a coding question. Humorously, a physician visited her while she was a patient in the ICU to ask how to code a patient encounter. Last year Kim moved from South Georgia to East Tennessee. She enjoys working for another hospital corporation as a coding compliance auditor. Two more credentials are in the works – COC and CIC. Tammy Thomas, COC, CPC, CMC, CGSC, CPMA, AAPC Associate ICD-10 Certified with Cardiovascular Specialty Tammy Thomas was born in Montgomery Alabama. She has studied and became a Certified Teachers Assistant and stayed in the education field until her three children graduated. She then became a Certified Medical Coder and this lit a fire. Coding became Tammy’s passion and she loves Vascular Coding. As of 2017 she has her COC, CPC, CMC and CGSC and ICD 10 Specialty in CardioVascular. In her free time she camps, reads and enjoys spending time with her family.

Susan L. Smithson, CPC Susan Smithson serves as Sr. Regional Manager, Field Reimbursement Services for United Biosource Corporation and leads UBC’s Field Reimbursement Team for the Southern half of the U.S. Susan and her team provide drug manufacturers with best in class services for patient assistance and reimbursement. She brings more than 30 years of healthcare experience – 10 years on of clinical experience and 25 years in revenue cycle management. Susan has worked in the commercial payer space for BCBS of IL, as well as for Availity Claims Clearinghouse. She has served in a leadership role in Home Infusion, DME and Large Multi-specialty provider billing offices. Most recently she served as Sr. Manager of COB and Recovery Services for Emdeon’s Medicaid Third Party Liability services business. Susan uses her expertise and management experience to focus on meeting the needs of key stakeholders in patient care. Her expertise includes addressing access and reimbursement issues associated with payers, patients and prescribers that influence a patient’s ability to obtain high cost specialty medications. Susan is a Certified Professional Coder with the American Academy of Professional Coders and received her Masters in Business Administration with a focus on Healthcare Administration from Bethel University.

Presenters:

2018 Tennessee Healthcare Conference Agenda Pre-Conference May 17, 2018

9:00am Session 1A: Back to the Coding Basics: Anesthesia (1 CEU) Presented By: Joseph Newsome CPC, COC, CPCO, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC AAPC Approved for 1.0 Core A and CANPC 10:00am Session 2A: Back to the Coding Basics: Immunizations and Vaccinations Presented By: Joseph Newsome CPC, COC, CPCO, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC AAPC Approved for 1.0 Core A, CEMC and CFPC 11:00am Break 11:15am Session 3A: Back to the Coding Basics: HCPCS Level II (1 CEU) Presented By: Joseph Newsome CPC, COC, CPCO, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC AAPC Approved for 1.0 Core A 12: 15pm Lunch 1:30pm Session 4A: Back to the Coding Basics: Modifiers (1 CEU) Presented By: Joseph Newsome CPC, COC, CPCO, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC AAPC Approved for 1.0 Core A, CPCO, and CPMA 2:30pm Dismiss 4:00pm Conference Advisory Board Dinner 5:45pm Concierge Welcome Reception and Priority Check-in 7:00pm Dismiss

2018 Tennessee Healthcare Conference Agenda Day 1 - May 18, 2018

7:30am Registration Opens 8:00am Welcome, Intro's, Icebreakers, Cole Meet and Greet 8:30am General Session 5A: Making MACRA Work! Presented By: Joseph Newsome CPC, COC, CPCO, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC AAPC Approved for 1.0 All except CIRCC and CPMS 9:30am Break 9:45am General Session 6A: E/M Coding & Documentation Presented By: Di Phelps CPC, CPC-I CEMC AAPC Approved for 1.0 All except CIRCC, CASCC 10:45am Break 11:00am Session 7A: Revenue Cycle Management: A/R Presented By: Susan L. Smithson MBA, CPC AAPC Approved for 1.0 Core A 12:00pm Lunch 1:00pm Session 8A: Compliance: Looking Ahead Presented By: Joseph Newsome CPC, COC, CPCO, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC AAPC Approved for 1.5 Core A, CPCO and CPMA 2:30pm Break Session A: Networking Opportunity Session B: Course Demo 3:00pm General Session 9A: Excision & Destruction: That is the Question Presented By: Karrie May CPC, CPMA, CRC AAPC Approved for 1.0 Core A and CPCD

2018 Tennessee Healthcare Conference Agenda Day 1 - May 18, 2018 Continued

4:00pm General Session 10A: Finding Humor in Healthcare Presented By: Joseph Newsome CPC, COC, CPCO, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC AAPC Approved for 0.5 Core B, CPPM 4:30pm Break 4:45pm Session A: Round Table Discussions Session B: CPC-A Meet Up 5:15pm Break 5:25pm Session A: Think Tank Session B: Conference Advisory Board Meeting 6:00pm Dismiss

2018 Tennessee Healthcare Conference Agenda Day 2 - May 19, 2018

8:00am Welcome, Morning Announcements, Ice-breaker 8:15am General Session 11A: Your Physician: From Documentation to Coding Presented By: Joseph Newsome CPC, COC, CPCO, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC AAPC Approved for 1.0 Core A and CDEO 9:15am Break 9:30am Session 12A: Radiology to Medicine: The Challenge is Real Presented By: Karrie May CPC, CPMA, CRC AAPC Approved for 1.5 Core A Session 12B: Integumentary: Anatomy, Coding and Documentation Presented By: Presented By: Di Phelps CPC, CPC-I CEMC AAPC Approved for 1.5 Core A 11:00am Break Session B Room: Course Demo 11:15am Session 13A: Digestive: Coding and Documentation Presented By: Presented By: Di Phelps CPC, CPC-I CEMC AAPC Approved for 1.0 Core A, CDEO, and CGIC Session 13B: The Nose Knows Presented By: Karrie May CPC, CPMA, CRC AAPC Approved for 1.0 Core A AAPC Approved for 1.0 Core A and CENTC 12:15pm Lunch 1:15pm Session 14A: Master Class: Professional Development Presented By: Susan L. Smithson MBA, CPC AAPC Approved for 1.5 Core B, CPPM Session 14B: Reading and Understanding NCCI Edits Presented By: Kim Toole CPC, CPMA, CEMC AAPC Approved for 1.5 All except CIRCC

2018 Tennessee Healthcare Conference Agenda Day 2 - May 19, 2018 Continued

2:45pm Break Networking Opportunity- Professional Tic Tac Toe Conference Store: “Red Light Special Item” 3:15pm General Session 15A: Coder Productivity: Measures Beyond the Numbers Presented By: Joseph Newsome CPC, COC, CPCO, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC AAPC Approved for 1.0 Core B and CPPM 4:15pm Break 4:30pm Session A: Roundtable Discussions 5:00pm Dismiss

2018 Tennessee Healthcare Conference Agenda Day 3 - May 20, 2018

8:00am Welcome, Morning Announcements, Ice-breaker 8:15am General Session 16A: Building an Audit Plan Presented By: Joseph Newsome CPC, COC, CPCO, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC AAPC Approved for 1.0 Core A, CPCO and CPMA 9:15am Break 9:30am Session 17A: Vascular Coding: Reconstruction and Repairs Presented By: Tammy Thomas, COC, CPC, CMC, CGSC AAPC Approved for 1.5 Core A and CCC Session 17B: What is Risk Adjustment? Presented By: Kim Toole CPC, CPMA, CEMC AAPC AAPC Approved for 1.5 Core A, CIC, and CRC 11:00am Break Session B Room: Course Demo 11:15am Session 18A: Healthcare Through the Years Presented By: Joseph Newsome CPC, COC, CPCO, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC AAPC Approved for 1.0 Core B and CPPM 12:15pm Lunch 1:15pm Session 19A: Trauma Surgery Presented By: Presented By: Tammy Thomas, COC, CPC, CMC, CGSC AAPC Approved for 1.5 Core A and CGSC Session 19B: The Art of Writing Appeal Letters Presented By: Kim Toole CPC, CPMA, CEMC AAPC AAPC Approved for 1.5 Core A, CPCO and CPMA

2018 California Healthcare Conference Agenda Day 3 May 20, 2018 Continued

2:45pm Break Networking Opportunity Conference Store Red Light Special Item 3:15pm General Session 20A: Americas Most Wanted: Healthcare Fraud & Compliance Presented By: Joseph Newsome CPC, COC, CPCO, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC AAPC Approved for 1.0 Core A, CPCO and CPMA 4:15pm Break 4:30pm Session A: Roundtable Discussions 5:00pm Dismiss

Tennessee Healthcare Conference Registration Form May 18-20, 2018

Name: _____________________________________ Credential: ___________ Address:_________________________________________________________ City, State, Zip: ___________________________________________________ Phone: ____________________ Email:___________________________________________________________

Payment Information: Card Holder’s Name:_______________________________________________ Address:_________________________________________________________ City, State, Zip: ___________________________________________________ _____ Visa _____ MasterCard _____ Check #_________________ Credit Card#:_____________________________________________________ Expiration: __________________ Security Code: __________ Signature:________________________________________________________ Mail to: MCHC CoderClass.com 9770 Baymeadows Road Ste. 135 Jacksonville, Florida 32256 Please Note: payment plans are available, half of invoice due on registration. Remaining balance due 30 days after initial registration. Failure to complete payment on time may result in loss of confirmed seat and initial deposit. There will not be session registration this year. Sessions are open and you can attend any session with an open seat. Please bring your CPT and ICD-10-CM coding manuals to class. Please note that lunch will not be provided, however there are several establishments around the facility. Please bring a sweater as the room temperature may vary.

Fax to (888) 730-7448 or Register Online at www.CoderClass.com

Please see cancellation policy online or call 855-2-CODE-IT for a copy to be mailed, faxed or emailed to your attention.

Concierge - $295 Standard -$195 Basic - $155Registration Levels

Pre-Conference 4 CEU’s - $50