Clinical Foundations

Attendees will gain useful clinical data on the prevalence, pathophysiology, etiology and manifestations of hypertension.

An easy to understand approach to learning more about the Anatomy and Physiology Systems

An easy to understand approach to learning more about the Anatomy and Physiology Systems

An easy to understand approach to learning more about the Anatomy and Physiology Systems

An easy to understand approach to learning more about the Anatomy and Physiology Systems

An easy to understand approach to learning more about the Anatomy and Physiology Systems

An easy to understand approach to learning more about the Anatomy and Physiology Systems

Define the 7 ICD-10-PCS (PCS) Approach Values. Apply 7 PCS Guidelines pertaining to Approaches. Correctly identify the Approach value in 5 scenarios from Coding Clinic

To provide an overview of two clinical disease processes: Acute Kidney Injury vs. Acute Kidney Failure and Obesity

To provide an overview of the clinical disease processes for Acute and Chronic Respiratory Failure

To provide an overview of the clinical disease processes for Heart Failure

To provide an overview of the clinical disease processes for encephalopathy.

To provide an overview of the clinical disease processes for pneumonia

To provide an overview of the clinical disease processes for Sepsis

Overview of Litigation from the IG Perspective: This presentation will focus on how these disciplines might be used. Pharmacology for Coders: This presentation will describe the fundamentals of pharmacology to enhance the participants’ insight into the clinical care of the patient as it affects their understanding of the coding scenario.

Listen to Lisa Daughtry, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, the experienced coding educator discuss the CDI and Coding issues related to clinical indicators; Review the issues between the Official Coding Guidelines and other diagnostic criteria; Discuss the necessity of CDI and Coding collaboration; and evaluate clinical validation query examples.

There are different types of diabetes, heart blocks, Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (MEN), and fractures, but were you aware that there are different types of myocardial infarctions as well?