UPDATE: CCO no longer offers Practicode. Please visit the AAPC for access http://cco.pe/practicode
Alicia: We’re going to do a Practicode case. This is one that stumps a lot of people.
Laureen: Alicia, before you get started, for those that don’t know, can you briefly explain what Practicode is?
Alicia: Practicode is a company that offers a service with real redacted scenarios or cases or encounters. So, they’re multispecialty and there’s about approximately a 100 to 150, sometimes more, individual encounters in these specialties. Anything from cardiology to gastroenterology to family practice and fee-for-service and ICD-9, ICD-10; so we offer this as an additional course that students can take where they’re wanting real life experience. This isn’t necessarily a good thing to go through if you haven’t tested for the CPC, this is meant to help you really work on specialties and abstracting of real cases, not scenarios that were created to drive home a guideline. So, if you think you want to do cardiology or something, then this is going to help you.
Laureen: So, you get certified and now you’re working hard to getting that first job. This is a perfect thing to do in that gap to get your speed up, and here’s an example of one of the cases. By the way, Alicia conducts a support call every Thursday night when we’re not doing this call, and she has all of the MCP, that’s our medical coding practicum students on the first hour, then the coding students the second hour, and our Blitz customers the last half hour. She goes over a lot of these cases and really the students get a lot out of it.
Alicia: Practicode is a company that offers a service with real redacted scenarios or cases or encounters. So, they’re multispecialty and there’s about approximately a 100 to 150, sometimes more, individual encounters in these specialties. Anything from cardiology to gastroenterology to family practice and fee-for-service and ICD-9, ICD-10; so we offer this as an additional course that students can take where they’re wanting real life experience. This isn’t necessarily a good thing to go through if you haven’t tested for the CPC, this is meant to help you really work on specialties and abstracting of real cases, not scenarios that were created to drive home a guideline. So, if you think you want to do cardiology or something, then this is going to help you.
Laureen: So, you get certified and now you’re working hard to getting that first job. This is a perfect thing to do in that gap to get your speed up, and here’s an example of one of the cases. By the way, Alicia conducts a support call every Thursday night when we’re not doing this call, and she has all of the MCP, that’s our medical coding practicum students on the first hour, then the coding students the second hour, and our Blitz customers the last half hour. She goes over a lot of these cases and really the students get a lot out of it.
The first thing we’re going to look at is: what is his chief complaint, his chief concern? Now we know he’s here for a hospital follow up. The next thing I like to do is scroll down to the bottom of the document and this is kind of the auditing and risk adjustment part of me. I always check to make sure there is a good signature. We’ve got electronically signed by our doctor with a credential and a date. A real electronic signature would also have a time stamp on there.
Then I want to look and see, what does he say is the diagnosis? That will just be right above there. It’s usually Diagnosis or Assessment. In this assessment, it says lower extremity swelling secondary to post-CABG. Right there, we know he came in for a follow up, but this is the diagnosis that he’s given and this is what he plans to do to treat it.
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