Online CME Course for Urgent Care Clinicians

Rightsizing Reimbursement:
How to Code for What You’re Owed

Close the gaps in your documentation.
Show the full complexity of your care.

You assess risk, weigh diagnoses, and make treatment decisions on every shift. Your documentation needs to capture that clinical reasoning so it communicates the complexity of the encounter, supports continuity of care, and provides the detail needed for accurate coding.

Learn what your documentation needs to capture, recognize omissions you may not know you’re making, and support accurate E/M coding—even when someone else handles the codes. Eight focused modules, real urgent care cases, and 2 CME credits help you turn that knowledge into stronger charts on your next shift.

Enroll now—$199 Explore the 8 modules

2 CME credits
Online, learn at your own pace
Workbook and printable slides

Rightsizing Reimbursement: How to Code for What You’re Owed course cover

8Focused modules

2CME credits

OnlineLearn at your own pace

$199Individual enrollment

Documentation is a clinical skill

Your patient care is a priority.
Make your documentation one, too.

You can evaluate a patient carefully, weigh the differential, and choose an appropriate treatment plan—then leave critical parts of that work out of the chart. Those omissions affect how another clinician, a coder, or an auditor understands the encounter.

Rightsizing Reimbursement teaches you to document the clinical complexity you manage every day. Learn what supports your medical decision making, where documentation falls short, and how to create a record that communicates the rationale for your care.

The common gap

Sound clinical decisions need more than a diagnosis in the chart.

Clinical training prepares you to evaluate and treat patients, but often leaves gaps in how to document medical decision making. A familiar template or a charting habit can carry those gaps from one encounter to the next—even for experienced clinicians.

You are still responsible for the clinical record when someone else handles coding. Knowing what belongs in that record helps you communicate your reasoning, support accurate coding, and create more defensible charts.

The course approach

Learn what supports your decisions—and how to document it.

This 2-hour course fills those training gaps with practical instruction built around urgent care encounters. Learn how to document the problems you address, the data you evaluate, and the risk involved in patient management.

Compare documentation examples, apply 25 charting tips, and work through cases with clear, practical explanations of the clinical reasoning. Build confidence in what to include, why it matters, and how your documentation supports the appropriate E/M level.

Built for your next shift

How this course will change your practice

Recognize what your chart is missing.

See where familiar documentation habits can leave important work unexplained. Use concrete examples and 25 documentation tips to strengthen the record you create.

Make the reasoning behind your decisions visible.

Connect the problems addressed, data reviewed, and management risk to your documentation, so the chart better reflects the complexity of the encounter.

Support accurate coding with a complete clinical record.

Understand what distinguishes a Level 3 visit from a Level 4 visit and how documentation supports that distinction. Give your coding team the clinical detail they need without relying on guesswork about what matters.

Designed for the way you learn

Learn the framework. See it applied. Use it in practice.

Focused video lessons and case discussions connect the patient presentation, your medical decision making, and the documentation needed to support it. See how the instructor evaluates each encounter, identifies documentation gaps, and explains the appropriate E/M level.

Know what your documentation needs to support. Learn how the problems you address, the data you evaluate, and management risk inform MDM—so your chart communicates the basis for your clinical decisions.
Recognize omissions before they become habits. Compare documentation examples and examine urgent care cases to identify missing clinical detail and understand how to create a more complete, defensible record.
Bring the lessons back to your next chart. With lifetime course access, revisit the videos, audio, workbook, and printable slides as you reinforce new documentation habits and apply them to the encounters you see every day.

From fundamentals to real-world application

Explore the course modules

Eight focused modules connect documentation, medical decision making, and accurate coding.

01Understand the encounter2 modules

Module 1: The Impact of Coding on Your Healthcare System

Understand how the decisions you make—and the record you create—connect to accurate reimbursement and practice performance.

Module 2: Medical Codes

Make sense of CPT and ICD terminology and Modifier 25, with examples drawn from urgent care.

02Make your medical decision making visible3 modules

Module 3: Medical Decision Making: Problems Addressed

Learn how the problems you evaluate and manage contribute to MDM complexity, and how documentation supports the appropriate E/M level.

Module 4: Medical Decision Making: Complexity of Data

Understand how tests, external notes, and other data factor into MDM—and what your chart needs to capture.

Module 5: Medical Decision Making: Risk of Patient Management

Recognize how treatment decisions and patient circumstances affect risk, and learn to reflect that reasoning in the record.

03Document, apply, and reinforce3 modules

Module 6: Documentation Tips

Build stronger charting habits with 25 practical documentation tips and examples that help you recognize what is missing.

Module 7: Coding Challenges

Work through real urgent care cases with expert guidance, connecting clinical decisions, supporting documentation, and the appropriate E/M level.

Module 8: Coding Formulas

Reinforce the course framework with 14 practical formulas for applying coding concepts to common urgent care encounters.

Preview of the Rightsizing Reimbursement course module page — Preview the course experience

Choose how you learn best

Learn the principles. Apply them to your next patient encounter.

Video modules

Eight focused lessons with practical urgent care examples and clear explanations you can pause and replay.

Real-world challenges

Patient encounters that bring clinical reasoning, documentation, and code selection together.

Course workbook

Notes, calculation worksheets, and practice challenges to reinforce the lessons.

Printable presentation slides

Review the instructor’s presentation alongside the videos or return to it when you need a refresher.

Audio-only track

Listen when audio fits your day, including during your commute.

MDM and coding-formula materials

Revisit the three key elements of medical decision making and the course’s 14 coding formulas.

The proof is in the practice

What clinicians say about the course

It was very informative, especially since my background is in a hospital, and the coding is very different. The presenter, Brad Laymon, did a great job explaining and giving various scenarios.

Corinthia H., NP

Very clear instructions were given. Every clinician should have this course.

Amber F., PA

I found a lot of value in the charts provided and will be utilizing them when I am unsure of which E/M level to select.

Anna G., PA

Strengthen your documentation on every shift

Document the clinical judgment
your patients depend on.

Learn to recognize documentation gaps, explain the reasoning behind your care, and support accurate E/M coding. For $199, get eight focused modules, practical charts and worksheets, and lifetime access to the instruction you can return to throughout your practice.

Clinical experience meets documentation expertise

Learn from someone who knows both sides of the chart.

Brad Laymon brings the perspective of an urgent care clinician and a certified professional coder—connecting the decisions made in the exam room with the documentation needed to support them.

Brad Laymon, PA-C, CPC, CEMC

Urgent care clinician, certified professional coder, and course instructor

Read full bio

Brad Laymon has more than two decades of experience in urgent care and became a certified professional coder in 2014. He founded Coding Excellence, LLC, in 2023 to help clinicians and practice leaders strengthen coding and documentation. He writes the “Coding & Charting” column and “Coding Challenges” for EB Medicine’s Evidence-Based Urgent Care and has written and spoken on related topics for the Urgent Care Association.

Accredited continuing medical education

CME and accreditation

Earn credit while strengthening your understanding of urgent care documentation and medical decision making.

2AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

2AOA Category 2-B credit hours

Accreditation: EB Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit designation: EB Medicine designates this internet enduring material for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AOA credit: This course is eligible for up to 2 American Osteopathic Association Category 2-B credit hours.

Original release: December 15, 2023. CME expiration: December 15, 2026.

Faculty disclosures: Brad Laymon, PA-C, CPC, CEMC (author/developer); Tracey Davidoff, MD (peer reviewer); and Suzanne Verity (content editor) have nothing to disclose.

Everything you need to know

Questions before enrolling?

Quick answers about the course, included materials, access, and CME.

Who is this course for?

Urgent care physicians, PAs, and NPs who want to strengthen their documentation and understand how medical decision making supports accurate coding. The course is suitable for clinicians building their foundation and those looking to close gaps in established habits.

Will this help if someone else handles my coding?

Yes. Your coding team relies on the clinical record you create. The course helps you document the complexity of the encounter, make your clinical reasoning clear, and provide the detail needed for accurate E/M coding.

What is included in the $199 enrollment?

Eight online video modules, a course workbook with calculation worksheets, printable presentation slides, an audio-only track, and materials covering the three key elements of MDM and coding formulas. The course offers up to 2 CME credits.

How long does the course take?

The course is designed as an approximately two-hour learning activity and is fully self-paced. You can work through the modules in sessions that fit your schedule and replay lessons as needed.

How long will I have access?

Your course access is for life. Return to the videos, audio, workbook, and presentation slides whenever you want to review a concept or strengthen your documentation habits.

Is group pricing available?

Yes. Contact EB Medicine about group pricing for your urgent care organization.

Close the gaps. Strengthen your documentation.

Make your next chart a stronger record of your clinical care.

Enroll now—$199

Rightsizing Reimbursement:
How to Code for What You’re Owed

Your patient care is a priority.
Make your documentation one, too.

Sound clinical decisions need more than a diagnosis in the chart.

Learn what supports your decisions—and how to document it.