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Course Name: Professional Practice Experience in Coding 
Course Prefix: HIM
Course Number: 2863
             Submitted by (Name & E-Mail):  Patricia Shaw, pshaw@weber.edu

Current Date:  11/2/2009
College: Health Professions
Department:   Health Admin Services                              
From Term: Fall  2010 

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New/Revised Course Information:

Subject:  HIM            

Course Number: 2863

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Course Title: Professional Practice Experience in Coding

Abbreviated Course Title: PPE in Coding

Course Type:  LAB

Credit Hours:  1  or if variable hours:    to

Contact Hours: Lecture   Lab 2   Other

Repeat Information:  Limit 0   Max Hrs 0 

Grading Mode:  standard

This course is/will be: a required course in a major program
a required course in a minor program
a required course in a 1- or 2- year program
elective

Prerequisites/Co-requisites:

Course description (exactly as it will appear in the catalog, including prerequisites):

Student's final experience in the coding setting. Skills and learning from the classroom and laboratory are reinforced and practiced in a simulated setting.

Diagnosis and procedure coding is pivotal in the reimbursement of health care today. Students have expressed a desire for a more in depth practical experience in coding. Because of the demand for quality in this area of the health information management practice our clinical sites do not have adequate time to devote to the increased training for our students. It is our intention to use our remote access capabilities in our HIM Lab to replicate the clinical setting for coding and abstracting of patient information. Other CAHIIM accredited programs have a dedicated professional practice experience course for coding in their curriculum and we see the need to add one as well.

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1. Did this course receive unanimous approval within the Department?

true

If not, what are the major concerns raised by the opponents?

2. If this is a new course proposal, could you achieve the desired results by revising an existing course within your department or by requiring an existing course in another department?

We currently have students complete one module as part of HIM 2862 in coding. Graduate and employer survey results indicate that this is insufficient. By creating this new course we will add more practice in a simulated clinical setting for our students in patient chart coding and abstracting. This course will also be added to the Institutional Certificate in Health Care Coding and Classification requirements to provide these students with a practical experience with patient chart coding.

3. How will the proposed course differ from similar offerings by other departments? Comment on any subject overlap between this course and topics generally taught by other departments, even if no similar courses are currently offered by the other departments. Explain any effects that this proposal will have on program requirements or enrollments in other department. Please forward letters (email communication is sufficient) from all departments that you have identified above stating their support or opposition to the proposed course.

The health information management and technology programs are the only programs on campus that teach diagnosis and procedure coding.

4. Is this course required for certification/accreditation of a program?

no

If so, a statement to that effect should appear in the justification and supporting documents should accompany this form.

5. For course proposals, e-mail a syllabus to Faculty Senate which should be sufficiently detailed that the committees can determine that the course is at the appropriate level and matches the description. There should be an indication of the amount and type of outside activity required in the course (projects, research papers, homework, etc.).

HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

HIM 2863 Professional Practice Experience in Coding

 

Text:  No text is required for this course.

 

Course Description:  Student’s final experience in the coding setting.  Skills and learning from the classroom and laboratory are reinforces and practices in a simulated setting.

 

 

Performance Objectives:

 

1.         Apply the official coding guidelines and conventions for both the ICD-9-CM and CPT coding systems for inpatient and outpatient charts.

2.         Given a patient record, analyze the clinical situation and determine what diagnosis is the principal diagnosis, what other diagnoses should be coded, what procedure is the principal procedure and what other procedures should be coded by applying either the inpatient coding guidelines/rules or the outpatient coding guidelines/rules as appropriate.

3.         Given a clinical coding scenario, apply the basic steps of the coding procedure using the ICD-9-CM system to correctly assign a code number with 98% accuracy.

4.         Abstract patient information and input this information into the 3M HDM program.

 

Schedule:

 

Week 1           Review of official coding guidelines and conventions for ICD-9-CM and CPT coding systems for inpatient and outpatient charts.

 

                        Exam on coding conventions

 

Weeks 2-6     Coding and abstracting of outpatients charts:  ERs, outpatient surgery, ancillary services, cardiac catheterizations, endoscopies and pathology.

 

Students will work in the HIM Lab independently coding and abstracting 10 of each patient record type.

 

 

Weeks 7-15   Coding and abstracting of inpatient charts:  OB, newborn, medical, and surgical cases.

 

Students will work in the HIM Lab independently coding and abstracting 10 of each patient record type.

 

 

 

Grading:        

Accuracy of coding diagnoses & procedures       40%

Accuracy of abstracting components                     40%

Exam on coding conventions                                   20%