HIT 2625 - Coding Systems II

5 Credits

This course is a continuation Coding Systems I. The course will continue to focus on how to transform narrative descriptions of diseases and injuries into alphanumeric diagnostic ICD-10-CM codes and also how to build ICD-10-PCS and/or CPT/HCPCS procedure codes. The course is designed to provide the student with knowledge of diagnostic and procedural coding applications and how they pertain to all aspects of medical care, research, data analysis, and financial implications. They will practice coding guidelines by applying the ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS and/or CPT/HCPCS codes to coding cases and scenarios using the code books and encoder software.

Prerequisite: BIO 2513/BIO 2511, BIO 2523/BIO 2521, HIT 2453 and HIT 2615
Corequisite: None
Prerequisite/Corequisite: None

3 Hours Lecture
4 Hours Lab