Medical Coding Education & Training
The Refresh With YES: ICD-10-CM Injury Diagnoses Learning Path teaches learners how to document ICD-10 injury codes, including 7th character for encounters examples, fractures and pathologic fractures, and burns, divided into 12-19-minute webinars. This learning path goes in-depth on the guidelines and examples for assigning the 7th character for initial, subsequent, and sequela of injuries. The ICD-10 traumatic and pathologic fractures codes are also discussed. Learners will also review ICD-10-CM Guidelines, coding examples, and Coding Clinic resources.
The Refresh With YES: CPT Eye Procedures Learning Path provides learners with highlights of eye surgery CPT codes, such as cataract extraction, retinal repair, vitrectomy, and Mohs surgery, divided into 14-29-minute webinars. This learning path goes in-depth on the anatomy of the eye and adnexa. Learners will also review CPT Guidelines, CPT Assistant instructions, and real-world coding scenarios for eye procedures.
The Refresh With YES: Root Operations – Biopsy, Excision, & Resection Learning Path shows learners how to code ICD-10-PCS root operations procedures, such as biopsies, excisions, and resections, divided into 11-16-minute webinars. This learning path dives into the definitions and procedure examples of applicable root operation procedures. Learners will also review excision vs resection when coding lymph nodes. Applicable Coding Clinic articles and coding guidelines are reviewed.
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The Refresh With YES: Obstetrical and Newborn Diagnoses Learning Path teaches learners how to correctly apply the ICD-10-CM guidelines for obstetrical coding and newborn diagnoses, divided into 11-14-minute webinars. This learning path dives into OB GYN diagnosis codes, and coding for newborns, including information about the perinatal period, birth admission coding, and much more.
Knowing how to accurately code and bill telemedicine services has been one of the biggest telehealth problems that practices are running into due to the amount of policy changes released over a short time period and the lack of experience in documenting these services. Here are the other most common challenges in telehealth and most popular questions about telemedicine.
The CPT Editorial Panel conducted a special meeting to expedite the publishing of four new CPT codes for lab tests related to COVID-19 (AMA, 2020). These new CPT codes for laboratory tests, which are available for review on the AMA’s Public Health Resource Center, address the ongoing need to report COVID-19 testing, and include two regular CPT codes and two Proprietary Laboratory Analyses (PLA) codes.
CPT coders are familiar with the monthly publication CPT Assistant, but this year another AMA publication is offering an additional resource for CPT news: The CPT Quarterly. The Q2 edition was recently released by the AMA.
The Refresh With YES: CPT Breast Procedures Learning Path teaches learners how to correctly apply the CPT codes for common breast surgeries and procedures divided into 14-21-minute modules. The courses within this learning path will provide an in-depth discussion of CPT coding for breast biopsies, mastectomies, and more. Operative reports are used as real-world coding scenarios for these CPT breast procedures.
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