HEIT 211 — Clinic Class Syst ICD10CM-PCS
This course is designed to familiarize the student with coding and classification systems used in health information management. Emphasis will be on inpatient coding and classification utilizing ICD-10-CM/PCS. Course work will focus on the official coding guidelines and use of the two volumes of ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS. Additional classifications are briefly studied. Students will acquire the knowledge and skills to code diagnosis using ICD-10-CM organized by body systems. System guidelines include; Infectious and Parasitic diseases, Neoplasm, Endocrine, Nutritional, and Metabolic diseases, Diseases of Nervous System. Diseases of the Eye and Adnexa, the Circulatory Respiratory, Digestive, Musculoskeletal, and Genitourinary systems, and diseases of Connective tissues, Pregnancy, Childbirth and the puerperium. Emphasis is also placed on coding procedures using the major sections of ICD-10-PCS.The laboratory component of the course emphasizes the use of computer-based coding software (encoder) to assign diagnostic and procedural codes by abstracting information from patient records. Students will also determine the DRG for each patient record coded.