Home Health Coding Beginner’s Boot Camp
You should attend if:
- You need to learn what italics, bolds and other conventions in the ICD-9 manual indicate, like the significance of and, with or want to understand non-essential modifiers like (chronic), or you
- need to learn other guidelines and conventions.
- You need to understand why coding polyneuropathy due to diabetes is coded 250.6X, 357.2 and what rules this involves.
- You are a beginner, need to learn the rules or need a basic review.
Join one of home care’s top coding educators for a full-day at a city near you for an intensive coding basics workshop designed to teach and/or reinforce your understanding of the steps to accurate diagnosis coding.
Get hands-on practice coding common scenarios and walk away with an introduction to decision-making skills that allows you to code with greater ease, in less time and with higher specificity. PLUS you’ll get helpful tools to use once you return to your office. Below are the topics you’ll cover.
PROGRAM:
A tour through your coding book and general guidelines
will give you the foundation you need.
- Learn why we code the way we do
- Relationship of coding, PPS, OASIS and billing
- Navigate the volumes – formatting and language clues that indicate the correct codes
- Basic rules, terms, specificity, conventions and punctuations
- Primary and secondary diagnoses
- Manifestation special cases and rules
- Late effects sequencing
- Case-mix and M0246/basics of sequencing and how V codes interact
Learn the general rules, most-often used codes
and must-know information to select the appropriate,
most
specific codes for:
- Diabetes: 4th and 5th digits, Type I and Type II, manifestations, ulcers
- Wounds: Trauma/open, pressure ulcers, post-op complications, stasis ulcers
- Fractures: Trauma and pathological, V54.1x, V54.2x, OASIS issues
- HTN (401 and 403), CHF and HF, MI and subsequent care, CVA
- Therapy codes: Documentation and the new importance of therapy in PPS, major therapy codes and how to use them
- Focus on diagnosis and the use of case-mix
- Case-mix and M0246/basics of sequencing and how V codes interact
- V codes: Focus on main primary codes, aftercare, ostomies, V55 vs. V44, complications
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