Man oh man, I was SO confused with this portion of my schooling. Thanks SO much for clearing it up. I didn't even know where to start finding the code in ICD10CM. You've earned a subscriber for sure. Looking to take my exam in late March! Had NO clue there was an index for it, I need to get labeling.
RetroMatt awww thank you!!!! So glad to be of some help!!! Let me know if you have any other questions or ideas that you’d like me to address in a video!
RetroMatt from what I understand it’s site/facility-specific, I can do some searching to see where to find if there are states that mandate their usage and where to find that information!
I am almost done with the AAPC training. I have watched 2 of your videos today and have so much more clarity than before. I watch other coding channels, but you are great!
I always think of the game Clue when I code accidents. What caused the accident or injury, where (what room or area) were they when the injury occurred, what were they doing when injured.
I was wondering if you had a video dealing with malignant neoplasms and how to tell when to code them as primary or secondary when you are only given ONE location? In the course I am taking they gave a number of exercises where they only gave one location for a malignant neoplasm but they would use the term "metastatic" in each yet sometimes they would code the neoplasm as a primary with an additional secondary neoplasm code of unspecified location and other times they would say it was a secondary neoplasm with an unspecified primary location and I was thrown by that cause you would think if you say it metastasized then you would always have a secondary location (and you'd assume you would know that location so why would there ever be an "unspecified location" code?). Why would an oncologist only give you one location anyway, wouldn't they know both, if there was a primary and a secondary cancer?
Phil Adams that is a great question!!!! I will definitely work on that video and figure out the answer to those questions! I will say that when they look at the pathology of the cancer cells they will look different from the site they were harvested from meaning they have moved from its primary location and they are metastatic and at its secondary location. Although in some instances it is difficult to figure out its primary location by the pathology especially if they hadn’t been to the doctor when the cancer was at its primary location. I’m pretty sure that is the reasoning but I will definitely figure it out for you!
Please slow own when you are giving definition or even explanations. need time to absorb or take note. Thank you. It is obvious you are passionate about this and really enjoy it.
Great video! You are one of my fave resources...also, your face is my face when dealing with E/M and Ch.20! If people only knew how much it takes to be a coder! P.S. Your dogs give me life! They howl at times and I think "Yes, Kate's dogs-I howl,too". Again thanks!
I am going through the book "Icd-10-cm and icd-10-pcs coding handbook 2018" and I was looking for instructions to get through chapter 12 (z codes and external cause of morbidity codes)... or what I thought was chapter 12 but in everyone else's book it's chapter 20? The info is still pretty much the same and you explained it well, i'm just not sure why it's so different.
rita bo bita that is interesting, so in your ICD-10-CM codebook chapter 12 is z codes/external cause of morbidity? Or is the handbook/textbook that covers z codes/external cause codes are explained in chapter 12?
