ICD-10 Coding Guidelines

This mini-class covers the ins and outs of ICD-10 coding guidelines from where to find the guidelines to some very important details of the ICD-10 codes themselves. Specificity is a hot topic for diagnosis codes, as is where this information should be derived from and is also covered in this short video.

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ICD-10 Basics

Ever get lost in what all those letters and numbers mean, which section to find what codes, and how to understand the punctuation involved in ICD-10 coding? This brief video will show you what all this means. As a provider who diagnoses patients and bills based on those codes, it’s critical to understand what they…

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Code ICD-10 Diagnosis with Confidence

Tips for Coding ICD-10 Diagnosis If you are responsible for reading documentation and finding the correct ICD-10 code, are you always confident that you have selected the correct code? If the answer is no, you are not alone. Here are some tips that we have found useful: Know the rules- Make sure you have read…

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Written Diagnosis Vs ICD-10 Coding in Documentation

DX vs ICD-10 Coding In the typical Evaluation and Management (E/M) service, providers document the patient’s history, quantify that history with an examination, and from those cornerstones, derive the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment plan. This is recorded in the patient’s health record and using this information, both Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) and International Classification of…

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Documentation or Diagnosis – Which came first?

The clinical diagnosis process should be second nature to every provider. But what does that mean? The expectation is that each time you diagnose a patient, you move through the process of gathering information to assess and arrive at the diagnosis that most accurately describes the patient’s condition. The process should be easily tracked in…

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The Clinical Diagnosis Process

The Diagnosis is Not an Assessment Chiropractors often confuse a diagnosis with the assessment portion of an initial visit note. The diagnosis and the treatment plan are just components of the assessment. The assessment, coupled with the information gathered while taking the patient’s history during examination, and his/her working diagnosis, reveals more about the patient…

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