Description: PCS continues to pose challenges for Inpatient Coders, especially with complicated surgeries. We will tackle Head & Neck and Spinal Fusions to learn what to look for and what’s important to make coding these procedures a breeze. 

Session Description

Although building a code in PCS sounds like a simple idea, difficult surgeries still pose several challenges.  Understanding the op note and knowing the anatomy as the surgeon describes it is one of those challenges.  We will go though an op note for a Head and Neck surgery and an op note of a Spinal Fusion.  Important points to be covered include:

• What to look for and what is important
• What is inherent and what should be coded separately
• In depth look at the anatomy
• How to build each PCS code

Webinar Date: This was presented as part of IHIMA’s 2022 Virtual Annual Meeting – April 2022

Duration: 1 hour

Speaker: Patrea Darringer, CCS, CDIP is the Inpatient Coder Trainer for Community Health Network.  She started coding in  2011 and knew early on she wanted to be an inpatient coder.  She became the trainer at Community in 2016.  She teaches an in-depth training course to new coders as well as monthly trainings with all staff.

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Cost: $25 Members/ $35 Non-Members

1 AHIMA CEU*

Domain: Data Structure, Content, and Information Governance

*AHIMA CEUs are also accepted by the AAPC. Check eligibility on the AAPC website.