Health Professionals & ICD-10 Coding

INSTRUCTORS:

Luis Da Silva

Managing Director of Healthbridge

Health professionals duty to ensure the correct ICD-10 coding is being used

Points: 3 ETHICS POINTS
Price: R500 excl VAT
Course Duration: 41 minutes

This presentation will look at the following:

• Give practitioners context on the purpose, benefit and uses of the detailed ICD-10 codes as per WHO.
• Expose the challenges that the industry faces in the implementation of the more advanced ICD-10 coding set. This will be presented from the unique view of neuro and behavioural science.
• Help practitioners understand their duty to the healthcare profession to code correctly, as it has an impact on local and global data analysis.
• “Make it real” for practitioners on why they need to code correctly; particularly those in private practice. This will discuss both the recommendations and consequences depending on the scenario.
• Literature references