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ICD-10 for CDI Boot CampTM - Online

Course Outline

Day 1

CDI-related topics - Overview and general guidelines

  • Background information (why we are changing to ICD-10)
  • Comparisons of ICD-9 and ICD-10 (CM and PCS)
  • Etiology/manifestation sequencing rules
  • Coding conventions

CDI opportunities (specificity) in ICD-10 by body system and related Chapter specific guidelines

  • Respiratory
    • Bacterial pneumonias with unique codes
    • Acute bronchitis d/t specified organisms
    • Reporting tobacco: use/exposure/dependence/history of use/occupational exposure with respiratory PDx
    • Asthma specificity
    • Post-op respiratory complications
    • Respiratory failure
  • Circulatory
    • Hypertension
    • Reporting tobacco: use/exposure/dependence/history of use/occupational exposure
    • HTN and associated diseases, e.g., CKD, heart disease
    • Myocardial infarction: initial versus subsequent
    • Chronic ischemic heart disease: complication codes
    • Heart failure: code first situations, excludes notes
    • Other diagnoses
  • GI
    • Esophageal disorders: ode first and excludes notes
    • Ulcers: Acuity/chronicity; anatomic location; complications: hemorrhage, perforation
    • Obstructive diseases: anatomic location; acuity/chronicity
    • Hernias: anatomic location, laterality; complications
    • Other diagnoses

Day 2

CDI opportunities (specificity) in ICD-10 by body system and related Chapter specific guidelines (continued)

  • Hepatobiliary
    • Alcohol-related liver disease: Code first notes; Alcohol abuse/dependence codes
    • Gallbladder disease: acuity/chronicity; with other (cholecystitis/cholangitis) disorders; complications: obstruction
    • Pancreas disorders
    • Other diagnoses
  • Endocrine
    • Diabetes
    • Hyperlipidemia: requires specific type: pure, mixed, other versus unspecified
    • Malnutrition
    • Clinical scenario
  • Renal
    • Nephrotic/nephritic syndromes: with associated changes, lesions, glomerulonephritis; Code first situations
    • Acute kidney failure
    • CKD: Code first situations, additional code required situations
    • Other diagnoses
  • Neurology and pain
    • Reporting pain: acute versus chronic
    • Epilepsy versus seizure (intractable definition)
    • TIA
    • Other diagnoses
  • Injuries: Ortho/musculoskeletal/burns
    • Fractures: reported by body site first: anatomic location and laterality; closed, greenstick, transverse, oblique, spiral, comminuted, segmental, other
    • Burns and corrosions: type of encounter: initial, subsequent, sequela
    • Other diagnoses
  • Infectious
    • Pertinent coding guidelines for reporting infectious diseases
    • Sepsis reporting
  • Neoplasms
    • Pertinent reporting guidelines
    • Primary/secondary
    • Mass versus tumor
    • Coding from pathology reports
    • Other diagnoses
  • Symptoms, signs, and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified
    • Reporting guidelines
    • SIRS
    • Severe sepsis
    • Other diagnoses
  • Injuries, adverse effects, poisoning, underdosing and toxic effects
    • Definition of poisoning versus adverse effect
    • Definition of underdosing
    • General reporting guidelines related to poisoning, adverse effect and underdosing
    • Reporting episode of care: initial, subsequent, sequel
    • Other diagnoses


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