Description: Enter the magical world of ICD-10-CM diagnosis coding, where all diseases and injuries both real and imaginary can be captured. Delve deep into the classification and discover some of ICD-10-CM's more obscure codes, some of which can be used in your day-to-day coding. Learn strategies to correctly assign codes to diseases you have never encountered before. This will improve your facility's data quality and data analytics capability and ultimately benefit patient care.

Learning Objectives:

• Become familiar with several obscure ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes
• Identify alternative ICD-10-CM Alphabetic Index entries leading to familiar and unfamiliar codes
• Learn strategies to correctly assign ICD-10-CM codes for unfamiliar diseases

Webinar Date: This was presented as part of the OHIMA 2024 Annual Meeting & Trade Show - March 20, 2024.
Duration: 1 hour

Speaker:  Anders Yanike, CDIP, CCS, CPMA, is a coding auditor/educator at Lifebridge Health, a multi-hospital system in Baltimore, Maryland, and is an inpatient coding quality review specialist for AQuity Solutions. He is a former adjunct faculty member at Carroll Community College where he taught basic diagnosis coding.  He has been a presenter for multiple MdHIMA educational sessions and webinars consistently since 2019, and most recently spoke at the 2023 WVHIMA Annual Convention.  Anders is an AHIMA-Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer and specializes in summarizing newly released coding advice to HIM professionals in a practical manner.

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Cost: $25 Members / $35 Non-Members
1 AHIMA CEU*
Domain: Data Structure, Content and Information Governance

*AHIMA CEUs are also accepted by the AAPC! Check eligibility on the AAPC website.