Healthcare documentation improvement certificate

HDIC

HDIC

40 Hours

Provided by AAPC & ANOVA
Installment Options Available

Course Details

  • Duration: 10 weeks
  • Days: Monday, and Wednesday 
  • Timing: 6:00-08:00 PM
  • Instructor-led Course
  • Live virtual (not recorded)

Program Overview

The HDIC program provide and deliver an efficient and sustainable training program that will give physicians, Billers, insurance specialists and medical coders the specific jobs skills and knowledge requirements necessary to be successful in basic clinical documentation improvements concepts. 

The purpose of becoming a HDIC® is to recognize that those individuals who perform the role of a CDI specialist have a diverse set of concurrent, prospective, and retrospective medical record review skills, clinical knowledge, and knowledge of documentation, coding, and reimbursement rules and regulations.

HDIC program includes lectures, reading assignments, practice exercises, module review tests, and a final exam.

Participants who successfully complete this course will be eligible to take AAPC’s credentialing exam to obtain the professional credential of HDIC.

Registration steps:

  • Sign up on this page.
  • On AAPC website, create an account and update your address (only)  (don’t add item to the shopping cart)
  • Reply to the email by (Confirmed)
  • Purchase Order (PO) will be shared to your email within 2-5 business days
  • Then, you can login to your AAPC account, process the payment, and share a screenshot of payment to update your account via e-mail/WhatsApp

Clinical Documentation Improvement

40-Hours Online Course
SAR 5,600
  • The purpose of Clinical Documentation Improvement
  • Documentation Requirements
  • Provider Communication and Compliance
  • Quality Measures
  • Introduction to ICD-10-AM
  • Introduction to ACHI, ACS and SBS
  • Coding and Documentation Review (CDI Cases)

About AAPC

With over 220,000 members in 43 countries, AAPC is the world’s largest training and credentialing authority for medical coding, billing, and health information management professionals. 

AAPC is recognized by governments, employers, and association groups as the gold standard in medical coding and health information management.  AAPC offers 30+ professional credentials and certifications, and each year conducts over 60,000 certification exams in 3,700 locations around the world. 

Lessons:

  • Effectively work with clinicians on improving their documentation.
  • Efficiently communicate the quality of care provided and associated patient outcomes.
  • Introduction to clinical documentation improvement.
  • Criteria of high clinical documentation improvements.
  • Types of documentation Reviews; (Concurrent and Retrospective).
  • Medical Necessity Reviews.
  • Clinical vs. diagnostic terms.
  • Common diagnoses and procedures with CDI issues and the impact.
  • Examples of medical necessity denials due to documentation issues.
  • Reasons for physician queries.
  • How CDI helps in standardizing healthcare data and maximizing reimbursements for hospitals.
  • Saudi Health information exchange (SeHE) regulations.
  • HIPAA regulations.
  • The components and requirements of the medical record.
  • Ownership, access, structure, and content of a medical record.
  • The CBAHI Documentation Requirements and standards.
  • KSA Standards of Documentation.
  • Accreditation Process
  • The importance of physician education and communication.
  • Physician queries
  • Saudi Health Information Exchange Policies (SeHE)
  • Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program in US and KSA
  • The accountability measures.
  • The basics of electronic clinical quality measures
  • The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set
  • Hospital-acquired conditions (HACs)
  • Patient safety and quality indicators
  • Quality Star Rating Program
  • Hospital Readmission
  • Quality assurance, quality control, and quality improvement
  • Healthcare Information Technology
  • Physician quality reporting
  • IPPS payment methodology.
  • Different payment mechanisms for healthcare providers.
  • AR-DRG Classification basic concepts
  • Structure, blocks, and examples of ICD-10-AM diagnosis codes
  • Conventions and instructions used in ICD-10-AM
  • Structure and application of the Australian Coding Standards (ACS)
  • Principal and Additional diagnosis
  • ICD-10-AM Chapters 1-11 and other applicable Diagnosis Codes
  • Common diseases and conditions coding guidelines
  • Common conditions and CDI concepts
  • Australian coding standards (ACS) applicable to the chapters 1-11
  • ICD-10-AM Chapters 12-22 and other applicable Diagnosis Codes
  • Common diseases and conditions coding guidelines
  • Common conditions and CDI concepts
  • Australian coding standards (ACS) applicable to the chapters 12-22
  • Introduction to Australian classification of health interventions (ACHI) and Australian coding standards (ACS)
  • Conventions used In Australian classification of health interventions (ACHI)
  • Introduction to Saudi billing standards (SBS) and Saudi billing and coding standards (SBSCS)
  • Common Australian coding standards (ACS) used in Australian classification of health interventions (ACHI) coding
  • ICD-10-AM and ACHI coding steps.
  • ICD-10-AM and ACHI coding concepts.
  • Condition onset flag (COF)/Present on admission (POA) indicators.
  • Classification of Hospital Acquired Diagnoses
  • Patient Safety Indicator (PSI)
  • Physician queries
  • Case studies.

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