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The following is a match game featuring ICD-10-CM codes for holiday mishaps. Match each ICD-10-CM code with its appropriate code description. Answers are found on p. 2.
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This sample debridement query was provided by Jera Van Damme, BSN, RN, CCDS, senior clinical documentation educator at Essentia Health in Duluth, Minnesota.
This sample has been reviewed and approved by ACDIS’ Forms & Tools Library Committee. The committee recommends that, should you choose to use this sample, you adapt it to your programmatic needs, EHR system requirements, and organizational diagnostic criteria. Before sending this query, the first set of asterisks on the form are to be replaced with the provider’s name, the second set should be replaced with the clinical indicators for that patient, the third set should be replaced with the question at hand, and the fourth set should be replaced with the CDI professional’s name and contact information. Additionally, to allow for accurate coding, those wishing to adapt this query may wish to add the following specifics:
Site of debridement
Type/description (excisional or non-excisional)
Depth (deepest layer debrided—i.e., skin, full or partial thickness, subcutaneous tissue, muscle, or bone)
Tissue removed (devitalized)
Instrument used (scalpel, blade, scissors, etc.)
Appearance and size (character of wound—before and after debridement, include pre/post debridement measurements)
This word search includes terms used in the CPT Manual to describe complex cardiac procedures. Coders can complete this word search and review the definitions for each term included in the word search to familiarize themselves with cardiac terminology.
The following is a case scenario featuring ICD-10-CM codes for opioid overdose. This scenario was provided by Lori-Lynne A. Webb, CPC, CCS-P, CCP, CHDA, COBGC, ICD-10-CM/PCS, trainer and procedural coding, compliance, data charge entry, and HIPAA privacy specialist. Webb’s coding specialty is OB/GYN office and hospitalist services, maternal fetal medicine, OB/GYN oncology, urology, and general surgical coding. She can be reached via email at webbservices.lori@gmail.com. You can also find more coding information from her at http://lori-lynnescodingcoachblog.blogspot.com/.
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