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May 04, 2024
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2022-2023 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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BOAT 113 - Medical Coding
PREREQUISITES: HLHS 101 - Medical Terminology
PROGRAM: Business Operations, Applications, and Technology
CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
LECTURE HOURS MIN: 3
DATE OF LAST REVISION: Fall, 2016
Addresses current basic CPT coding concept guidelines including learning to use documented information and current basic ICD- coding guidelines including how to extract information from medical charts.
MAJOR COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be expected to:
- Utilize knowledge of alphabetic index and tabular indexing of codes.
- Understand coding procedures and current basics of ICD guidelines.
- Implement the current ICD guidelines manuals, updates, and changes in codes.
- Apply V Codes, E Codes, and Late Effects.
- Comprehend political issues which affect the profession.
- Utilize examples of coding problems for the purpose of immediate application/practice of the rule/skill.
- Duplicate medical coding work environments through workplace scenarios.
- Recognized symptoms of infections and parasitic diseases, mental disorders, diseases of the nervous system, disorders of genitourinary system, complications of pregnancy, conditions of perinatal period, injury, and poisoning as they apply to medical coding.
- Apply concepts of CPT.
COURSE CONTENT: Topical areas of study include -
- Basics of current ICD guidelines
- Alphabetic index and tabular index of codes
- Injury and poisoning
- Infection and parasitic diseases
- Coding procedures
- Mental disorders
- Use current ICD guidelines manuals
- Disease of the nervous system
- V Codes, E Codes, and Late Effects
- Genitourinary system
- Work environments and wages
- Complications of pregnancy
- Workplace scenarios
- Conditions of perinatal period
Course Addendum - Syllabus (Click to expand)
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