This Kathy’s mini-class covers the resources available for coding and documentation. Covered here are the different resources, what they look like, who issued them, and a nice online option for ICD-10 coding. Watch this short video to familiarize yourself with the organizations and the actual books that establish the rules for documentation and coding.
ICD-10-Excludes Notes
As you continue through this module, learning about ICD-10 coding basics, the discussion of what Excludes 1 and Excludes 2 means, must be covered. These words provide clues to diagnosis coding that are critical to translating the written diagnosis into a particular ICD-10 code. The training included here will clear up the difference between these…
ICD-10 Chiropractic Codes Support Tool
Download Support Tools We get the question all the time, “What code should I use?” This question must be assessed within the context of the situation being discussed. However, we do find it useful for providers to have a resource to reference when thinking about diagnosis codes that pertain to chiropractic. These support tools provide…
ICD-10 Documentation Quick Tips
ICD-10 Documentation Must Be Specific ICD-10 diagnosis codes are driven by higher-level documentation, making it important to incorporate the more detailed descriptions found in ICD-10. This coding process uses a very particular vocabulary to describe specific anatomical sites and regions, especially regarding the regions of the spine most commonly referenced in chiropractic documentation. The ICD-10…
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.
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…