HIT 220 ICD PROCEDURE CODING

2 Units 2 hours lecture
Prerequisite: HSC 277
Designed to provide training in the process of building ICD procedure codes. Discusses the Index and Tables of the ICD procedure manual for assigning procedure codes. Prepares students to review the documentation in health records, support and identifies the procedure, determine the objective of the procedure, review the definition of the root operations that match the objective of the procedure, and select the appropriate value for body part, approach, devise, and qualifier from the procedural code table. Students will use encoders and groupers to assign ICD procedure codes. Letter grade only.
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