Medical Coding ICD-10

Medical Coding ICD-10

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Description:

In this course, we're going to learn medical coding from the ground up. Whether you are new to medical coding, or already have experience, this course is written in 'laymen's terms' yet is comprehensive enough to help even seasoned medical coders. The healthcare industry, complex and rigorous even for the most knowledgeable and thorough of professionals, requires that paperwork be submitted both in a highly, accurate, and timely manner. The area of healthcare involving the completion of paperwork outlining patients' billing histories and submission of them to the individual's insurance company for reimbursement is known as 'medical billing'. Within medical billing there exists the practice of 'medical coding' whereby codes are assigned to medical procedures and diagnoses in order to relay in a universally accepted medical language information to the insurance company or in some cases, governmental agencies.

Also known as 'insurance coding', medical billing/coding is viewed to be essential to the healthcare industry for it creates and maintains a single, unified language by which all (physicians, medical administrators, insurance companies, government healthcare officials integrated parties are able to effectively communicate.

What you will learn:

1. Introduction to Medical and Diagnosis coding
2. What is ICD-10-CM?
3. Introduction to ICD-10-CM coding and structure
4. Introduction and overview of reimbursement
5. Overview of ICD-10-CM Coding Practice Problems
6. Current procedural terminology (CPT),
7. Introduction to CPT Coding and structure

Course Outline: Medical Coding ICD-10

Introduction to Medical and Diagnosis coding

1. Professional Overview
2. Specific Responsibilities
3. Education Training and Certification
4. Introduction Medical
5. Introduction Diagnosis
6. Standardization in Coding
7. Relative Value Units (RVUs)
8. HIPAA Background
9. HIPAA Explanation

What is ICD-10-CM? Introduction to ICD-10-CM coding and structure

1. Coding Overview
2. ICD-10-CM versus CPT: Documenting Medical Necessity
3. History of the ICD
4. Origins and Revisions of the ICD
5. ICD-10-CM Form and Function
6. Regulating and Financial
7. ICD-10-CM: Overview and General Structure
8. ICD-10-CM: Basic Operating Guidelines6, V Codes, Categories of V Codes
9. Tips for Improving ICD-10-CM coding Accuracy, ICD: Punctuation
10. ICD: Instruction/Notes, ICD-9-CM: Coding Accuracy & Specificity
11. ICD-9-CM versus ICD-10-CM

Introduction and overview of reimbursement overview of ICD-10-CM Coding Practice Problems

1. Reimbursement Introduction
2. Reimbursement overview
3. Healthcare Industry Billing
4. Reimbursement Climate
5. Top Ten Coding & Billing Errors
6. Step to Avoid Coding Billing Errors
7. More Efficient Billing Systems
8. ICD-10-CM Practice Problems: Overview
9. ICD-10-CM Practice Problems
10. ICD-10-CM Practice Problems: Summary

Current procedural terminology (CPT), Introduction to CPT Coding and structure

1. What is a CPT Code? CPT Medical Coding Purpose
2. CPT Medical Coding: History, Structure CPT Codes
3. AMA's Stance on CPT Codes, CPT Codes Glossary of Frequently Used Terms
4. CPT Coding and Structure: Introduction, Three Categories of CPT Codes
5. CPT Codes: Category I, General Guidelines for Using the CPT Manual, Coding Multi-Disciplinary Approach
6. Absence of Codes, Special Cases, Daily Coding Rituals
7. Exercise Caution when Using 99215S, Correlation between Coding and Time
8. Troublesome Modifiers: -25 & -59, Prolonged Services, Critical Care Services
9. Emergency Department Services, Cautionary CPT Coding Areas, Reasonable and Necessary
10. Documentation, Changes/Revisions to CPT Codes, National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI)

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