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OBJECTIVES DAY 1:

1. Identify the responsibilities of coders
2. Define the role of the physician, clinician and the coder in coding
3. Discuss official guidelines and conventions including assumptions that can and cannot be assumed in ICD-10
4. Identify when to apply the most common history, status and aftercare Z codes.
5. Discuss coding for sepsis and infectious disease and the difference between A and B codes.
6. Identify and correctly sequence a variety of neoplasm situations, including sequencing anemias associated with neoplasm situations.
7. Identify and sequence a variety of codes for diabetes and metabolic disorders .
8. Correctly identify and sequence mental, behavioral and neurodevelopment disorders.

OBJECTIVES DAY 2:

1. Correctly identify and sequence codes for nervous system disorders.
2. Correctly identify and sequence a variety of codes in the circulatory system.  
3. Correctly identify coding for respiratory system diseases with emphasis on COPD, pneumonia, influenza and asthma.
4. Discuss accurate coding for a variety of diseases and complications in the digestive system. 
5. Accurately identify and sequence codes for a variety of skin & subcutaneous conditions.
6. Correctly identify codes for diseases of musculoskeletal system.
7. Identify correct coding for a variety of injuries, complications and other consequences of external causes.
8. Demonstrate correct code selection and sequencing for a variety of complication codes.

TAKE THE EXAM! August 23rd

 Where is the exam?

 Indiana Wesleyan University • 2590 Sir Barton Way, Suite 200 • Lexington, KY

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How long is the exam?

oin us for this two-day intermediate Coding Workshop that combines updated information on recent Coding Clinic Guidance, overview of the new and changed codes effective October 1, 2018 with an opportunity to fine tune your coding skills on a variety of home health and hospice coding scenarios and an opportunity to get answers to coding challenges

Judy Adams, RN, BSN, HCS-D, HCS-O

 Judy Adams is President and Owner of Adams Home Care Consulting, Inc. founded in 2009 and provides clinical and operational consultation and education services to home care, home health and hospice organizations. 

Experience in serving clients

Judy offers over 35 years of experience as a nurse executive and consultant. Her nursing experience includes educational, supervisory, administrative and staff positions in a variety of institutional and community health settings.

Technical expertise

Judy’s experiences include working closely with regulators, third-party payers, occupational licensing boards and home care providers on numerous issues involving health and social supportive services in the home and community settings.

For the past 30+ years, Judy has provided a variety of  educational,  operational and clinical consultative services to large and small home care and hospice organizations in several states in the eastern half of the United States and taught hundreds of teleconferences and day-long workshops on diagnosis coding, OASIS, home health prospective payment system, coverage and documentation, and a variety of other clinical and regulatory home care topics for individual agencies, state associations and national organizations.

 Educational/professional involvement

Judy earned her degree in nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been certified as a Homecare Coding Specialist – Diagnosis (HCS-D) since 2003 and a Home Care Clinical Specialist – OASIS (HCS-O) since March 2011 from the Board of Medical Specialty Coding and Compliance She also held the COS-C certification in OASIS from 2006-2012 and became an AHIMA approved ICD-10-CM Trainer in June 2012. Judy regularly contributes to numerous educational manuals, videos and newsletters on a variety of home health and hospice topics.