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Coders- best option / method for educating ourselves on ICD-10? - icd-10

Posted: Oct 02, 2012

What is the best option/method for educating ourselves on ICD-10? Has anyone started? Looking for recommendations. I would like to get a head start now on my own. I sort of put it out of my mind when they delayed it. AAPC seems to have a course. AHIMA looks like they have webinars. Has anyone tried these?

I would go with what your employer provides. - Are you a coder yet?

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I have already learned it. Your plan of action will depend on what kind of coding you do. Outpatient coders will only require 15 hours or so and only the diagnosis code set. Figure on 50 for inpatient and include the procedure code set.

I saw an Ingenix computer-based training that I liked. The AHIMA training is classic AHIMA--dry and tedious. Really grim webinars. Have not seen AAPC's.

Much of what I have seen has been grossly overpriced. I would go with your employer's training or maybe the training from Ingenix.

thanks, yes I - Code Inpt and outpt

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So, I will need all of it. Thanks for the Ingenix tip. I agree AHIMAs are dry and expensive. I just want to get a taste for myself before we go into actual training when we get down to the wire.

In that case . . . - I forgot about

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You can download the dx and guidelines from the website. Try the Ingenix instruction books, especially for the procedures. The dx set is not much different. You will see the same conditions, same overall arrangement, same code selection process, just different numbers. Guidelines are similar, but there are some differences. Not a big deal.

There is a Faye Brown for ICD-10. That is the one I would recommend with Ingenix Optum Insight or whatever they are now . . .

The px are completely different, but fun. You actually get to use your brain. You will need to know more anatomy for that, but do not get sucked into taking another college A&P class thinking it will help. You need specific information, not more vague overview. Ingenix has a book just for that.

For the dx, you need pathophysiology, not A&P, and you need something more than what is taught in associate's degree or career college programs. I recommend texts used in 4-year nursing programs, like Huether and McCance. Gould, which is often used in RHIA programs, is fine, too. I think the key here is finding a book that you can enjoy and also use as a reference.

Thanks, - I will check it out! nm

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