Ultimate Coding & OASIS Training Virtual Series: ICD-10 Coding Basics

Ultimate Coding & OASIS Training Virtual Series: ICD-10 Coding Basics

Format: Virtual, On-Demand

Expert Trainer: Nanette Minton, RN, HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-O, Senior Clinical Coding Manager, MAC Legacy

Audience: Beginner coders; Clinicians who code; Home health supervisors who are taking a role in coding

Level: This session is intended for new and less experienced home health coders.

Understand the core coding competencies that dictate accurate coding. Start with the coding fundamentals, guidelines, and conventions, and then dive into how to properly code the most common home health diagnoses.

Our expert speaker includes opportunities to pause the recording to work through scenarios, which she discusses in depth to ensure retention and comprehension.

The training covers:

• What is ICD-10-CM, including what governs how we code and who establishes diagnoses
• The importance of face-to-face documentation in assigning accurate principal diagnoses
• A deep dive into the ICD-10 official coding guidelines and conventions, including the use of laterality, Excludes notes, sequelae, 7th character assignment, and key sequencing guidelines.
• How to Use the Alphabetic Index, Tabular List, and Neoplasm Table to correctly find codes
• An overview of PDGM and its impact on coding
• How to navigate the legal and ethical standards of care and clinician collaboration.
• Key chapter-specific guidelines in the following Tabular chapters, including instruction on how to find and assign the code, key sequencing guidelines to be aware of, what to avoid/be cautious of:
  • Chapt 1: HIV, sepsis/septic shock, MRSA
  • Chapt 2: Neoplasms, metastasis, complications of neoplasms
  • Chapt 3: Anemia
  • Chapt 4: Diabetes, diabetic manifestations
  • Chapt 5: Substance use, abuse, withdrawal; Dementia
  • Chapt 6: Hemiplegia, Pain, Parkinson’s disease
  • Chapt 7: Glaucoma, blindness, low vision
  • Chapt 9: Hypertension, Hypertensive diseases (and assumed relationships), heart failure, CAD, AMIs, CVA
  • Chapt 10: COPD, asthma, emphysema
  • Chapt 11: Digestive diseases
  • Chapt 12: Pressure ulcers, non-pressure chronic ulcers
  • Chapt 13: Site and laterality, bone vs joint, pathological fractures, osteoporosis
  • Chapt 14: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
  • Chapt 17: When it’s appropriate to use these codes
  • Chapt 18: Proper use of symptom codes
  • Chapt 19: Traumatic fractures and 7^th character use, burns, complications
  • Chapt 20: Proper assignment of external cause codes
  • Chapt 21: How to find and assign Z codes
  • Chapt 22: COVID, vaping

Required material: All participants must have a ICD-10-CM coding manual OR the Home Health Coding Center to participate. We recommend DecisionHealth's Complete Home Health ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Coding Manual or DecisionHealth's Home Health Coding Center.

Who Should Listen?

• Beginner coders
• Clinicians who code
• Home health supervisors who are taking a role in coding

Meet the Speaker

Nanette Minton, RN, HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-O, Senior Clinical Coding Manager, MAC Legacy

Serving in a leadership capacity for over 20 years, Nanette has held a variety of roles in the home care and hospice industry including clinical, administrative, consulting, education, and agency startup & development. She currently holds the position of Senior Clinical Coding Manager for MAC Legacy. Nanette provides day to day coding and quality support to the home care and hospice agencies receiving coding services. She also serves as a consultant for quality and regulatory issues that arise due to the complex and integrated nature of coding. Nanette's experience in the industry gives her a unique perspective and allows her to provide coding and audit knowledge firsthand to clients.

Recommended Resources

If you're looking to continue your coding education and plan to eventually sit for the HCS-D certification exam, we recommend the following resources:

• Home Health ICD-10-CM Coding Assessment: Identify your own and/or your staff's home health ICD-10-CM coding understanding, identify potential skills gaps, pinpoint areas for training opportunities, and monitor progress over time. Learn more here.
  
  
• Ultimate Coding & OASIS Training Virtual Series: ICD-10 Intermediate Coding: This virtual online training will walk you through how to sequence the most common home health diagnoses in ICD-10. Learn more here.
  
  
• Home Health ICD-10-CM Coding Answers: To learn how to accurately code in ICD-10, you must practice coding. Practice your coding by working through 200 ICD-10 coding scenarios that cover home health's most complicated situations. Learn more here.
  
  
• Home Care Coding Specialist – Diagnosis (HCS-D) Certification Study Guide: This study guide will help prepare you to take the Home Care Coding Specialist-Diagnosis (HCS-D) certification examination, offered by the Board of Medical Specialty Coding & Compliance (BMSC). You'll get tips and sample test questions authored by BMSC Board members. Learn more here.
  
  
• Home Health ICD-10-CM Coding Companion: A guide to accurate coding and compliance with expert guidance and comprehensive decision trees to help you navigate the ICD-10 code set. Learn more here.
  
  
• Diagnosis Coding Pro for Home Health: Monthly newsletter that delivers guidance on selecting the correct codes to accurately reflect a patient's condition, prevent claims delays, support OASIS assessments and ensure proper payment. Learn more here.
  
  
• ICD-10-CM Wound Coding & OASIS Field Guide: Is your on-the-go reference to choose the right ICD-10 code and complete the OASIS for the most common home health wounds. Learn more here.
  
  
• Face To Face Answers, Second Edition: Complete guide to mastering home health and hospice face-to-face (F2F) requirements. Learn more here.

Continuing Education

Board of Medical Specialty Coding and Compliance (BMSC)
This program is preapproved by the Board of Medical Specialty Coding & Compliance (BMSC) for 4 HCS-D, 4 HCS-H, 2 HCS-O, 2 HCS-C CEU(s).

Nursing Contact Hours
HCPro is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

This educational activity for 4.25 nursing contact hours is provided by HCPro.

How to receive your continuing education certificate
To obtain a continuing education certificate, you must watch the full training and get an 80% on the post-test. Once you pass the test, you'll be provided a link to take an evaluation. Once you complete the evaluation, a certificate will be emailed to you. Please retain the email for future reference. Note: The automated certificates are sometimes mistaken for spam. We suggest you use a personal email address and check your junk mail folder after completing the evaluation.

Customer Service Contact Information
If you have questions regarding this product or activity, please contact customer service department for further assistance:

• Phone:800-650-6787
• Email: customer@decisionhealth.com

Disclosure Statement

Please note the planners, presenter(s), and contributors to this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with any commercial companies pertaining to this activity.

Instructions

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Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, or Safari, with JavaScript enabled 
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Note: Once you have completed checkout you will receive an order confirmation email from Do-Not-Reply-TrainingToday@lmsnotification.com within 1 business day. This email will include your password and login information. Upon logging in you will gain access to all course material. The course material is to be used solely by the purchaser. Any sharing of this documentation is prohibited.

Your Class Sessions and Materials include:

• Coding Basics Training Sessions (Session totals approx. 4 hours, 18 minutes)
• Coding Basics Training Materials

Required material: All participants of the training must have a ICD-10-CM coding manual OR the Home Health Coding Center to participate. We recommend DecisionHealth's Complete Home Health ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Coding Manual or DecisionHealth's Home Health Coding Center.

If you have questions about this virtual class contact us at:

• Phone:800-650-6787
• Email: customer@decisionhealth.com

Attendees will have access to this event for 60 days from the time of purchase.