LAH0024 - Medical Coding Café

Course Description

Sharpen your inpatient coding skills by interpreting real-world documentation and take your ICD-10-CM /PCS skills to the next level with the tools and experience needed to refine your inpatient coding expertise. Build your resume with hands-on inpatient coding training, and expand your career options with in-depth understanding of employer requirements and expectations. 

This 2-part hybrid program includes:

1. Instructor-led online live Coding Café conversations. Learn from an industry veteran in a casual and supportive environment where you will have the opportunity to ask questions, discuss cases, and gain deeper insights.
2. Independent, self-paced online modules using Libman Education’s Practical Coding Experience: Inpatient 1. 

Start your Inpatient Coding career today! Medical Coding Café is perfect for any current coding professional ready to step up and seek an inpatient coding position. 

Attention CAHIIM students 

Medical Coding Café satisfies the CAHIIM requirement for externally supervised experiential learning and gives you the hands-on experience necessary to open the door to your coding career. 
 

Course Outline

Week 1: 

• The Medical Record Review and Coding Process
• Practice-Review Results-Explore-Try Again
• Check Your Understanding with Assessment 1
• Coding Café topics: Work Queues, Facility Coding Policy, Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, UHDDS definitions, Q&A

Week 2: 

• Complete assigned cases from Libman Education Practical Coding Experience: Inpatient 1
• Check Your Understanding with Assessment 2
• Coding Café topics: Discharge Summary, Excision v. Resection, abbreviations and medical terminology, medications, lab values, Q&A

Week 3:

• Complete assigned cases from Libman Education Practical Coding Experience: Inpatient 1
• Check Your Understanding with Assessment 3
• Coding Café topics: Root Operations for coding biopsy procedures, Coding Considerations (applying official guidelines, Coding Clinic) and Reimbursement under IPPS, Q&A

Week 4:

• Complete assigned cases from Libman Education Practical Coding Experience: Inpatient 1
• Coding Café topics: Student-led case discussions, Joint replacements, Intrapleural tPA, Q&A

Week 5:

• Complete assigned cases from Libman Education Practical Coding Experience: Inpatient 1
• Check Your Understanding with Assessment 4
• Coding Café topics: Student-led case discussions, Operative Report, H&P, Pathology Report, Consultation, Q&A

Week 6:

• Complete assigned cases from Libman Education Practical Coding Experience: Inpatient 1
• Check Your Understanding with Assessment 5
• Coding Café topics: Student-led case discussions, Nightly CPAP, Aneurysm Repair, Esophageal balloon dilation, Q&A

Week 7:

• Complete assigned cases from Libman Education Practical Coding Experience: Inpatient 1
• Coding Café topics: Student-led case discussions, Anemia in CKD, Hemodialysis, Nissen Fundoplication, Q&A

Week 8:

• Complete assigned cases from Libman Education Practical Coding Experience: Inpatient 1
• Check Your Understanding with Assessment 6
• Receive Libman Education course completion certificate and AHIMA/AAPC CEUs. Certificate includes a listing of diagnoses and procedures coded to demonstrate learner’s ability to meet current inpatient coding challenges.
• Coding Café topics: Student-led case discussions, Ileostomy Reversal, TPN through PICC line, Q&A
   

CEU's

Upon successful completion of the Libman Education course work, you will be able to download a Libman Education Certificate of Completion. The Certificate of Completion will list the course as awarding 6 CEUs.

AHIMA: 6 CEUs The Libman Education Practical Coding Experience: Inpatient 1 course has been approved for 6 continuing education units (CEUs) for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Granting of Approved CEUs from AHIMA does not constitute endorsement of the program content or its program provider.

AAPC: 6 CEUs The Libman Education Practical Coding Experience: Inpatient 1 course also has the prior approval of AAPC for 6 continuing education hours. Granting of prior approval in no way constitutes endorsement by AAPC of the program content or the program sponsor.

Learner Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Interpret inpatient medical record documentation and recognize documentation that supports coding the following diagnoses in ICD-10-CM:
   • Anemias, aneurysms, attention to artificial openings, burns, diabetes with complications, GI and hepatobiliary diseases, hypertension, heart failure and kidney failure, long-term use of drugs, meningitis, neoplasms, newborn with minor complications, OB diagnoses, osteoarthritis, pneumonia and other respiratory conditions, presence of implants, prostatic hypertrophy with symptoms, traumatic fractures and external causes, uterine and ovarian disorders, and volume depletion issues.
2. Interpret inpatient medical record documentation and recognize documentation that supports coding the following procedures in ICD-10-PCS:
   • Biopsies, deliveries, dilation, drainage, excision v. resection, GI bypasses, hemodialysis, hysterectomy, inspection, joint replacements, mechanical ventilation, CPAP, prostate procedures, release, repair v. supplement, repositioning bones, replacement v. supplement, restriction v. occlusion, skin grafting, TPN administration, and vascular access device insertion.
3. Assign ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS codes in compliance with official coding guidelines.  
4. Analyze IPPS reimbursement factors, including MS-DRG assignment, CCs/MCCs, and POA indicators.

About Your Instructor

Paula Akialis, MBA, RHIA, CCS, CPC, CPC-I, Associate Professor and HIT Program Coordinator, Harper College
pakialis@harpercollege.edu

Paula Akialis began her healthcare career as a Registered Nurse on a busy orthopedic unit in a large Dallas teaching hospital. Her passion for information technology led her to pursue an MBA, which opened the door to roles as a mainframe coder and systems engineer. Fifteen years ago, she transitioned into health information management, working as an outpatient facility medical coder and training staff for the ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation. She later became an adjunct instructor at area community colleges and now serves as the Health Information Technology (HIT) Program Coordinator for Harper College’s fully online associate degree. Paula teaches medical coding and data analytics, finding it a privilege to support Health Information Management (HIM) students as they achieve their educational and professional goals.

Notes

Pricing includes the required Practical Coding Experience: Inpatient 1 modules from Libman Education. Your instructor will provide login information prior to the start of the course. The current year ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS codebooks are required and are not included.