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CPT Coding

An overview of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding system, including the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) used to describe services and procedures with emphasis on evaluation and management, anesthesia, surgery, radiology, pathology and laboratory, and medicine.

ICD-10-CM Coding

Provides students with basic International Classification of Disease, 10th Edition, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) coding principles with emphasis on inpatient and outpatient guidelines. The course focuses on format, code conventions, Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) guidelines, document sources, code sequencing, and code assignment.

Legal Aspects Of HIM

Overview of the fundamentals of law, U.S. legal system, consents, confidentiality, release of information, use of patient records during proceedings, and health information practice, ethics, regulatory requirements, compliance, risk management, and quality improvement. Emphasis on privacy and security rules from the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Organization of Health Data

The study of basic hospital and health statistics including sources, definitions, and use of health data. Computerized and manual methods of collecting, processing, and preparing statistical reports and spreadsheets for health care management, including various methods of presenting data, predictability studies, data mining, calculation of common rates and percentages.