Students upon completion of the course will be able to demonstrate the following competencies needed to properly prepare and code medical services for claims processing:

• Accurately apply and justify coding conventions when assigning diagnoses and procedure codes for ambulatory or outpatient or inpatient encounters.
• Identify the purpose of the SCHI, ICD-10-AM, SBSCS, and AR-DRG Classifications.
• Understand and apply the official ICD-10-AM coding guidelines.
• Provide practical application of coding ambulatory and inpatient charts.
• Summarize the Saudi Health Insurance system and regulatory requirements.
• Identify the key focus for data points required for investigation and data analysis and MOH-MDS (ministry of health minimum data specifications).
• Understand and apply the SFDA, GMDN and GTIN coding classifications for pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
• Understand and apply the Australian dental association (ADA) coding classification.
• List the major features of KSA service and ambulatory transport codes.
• Understand and apply the lab and pathology coding classification.
• Understand medical terminology and anatomy.
• Code a wide variety of patient services using SCHI, ICD-10-AM, AR-DRG and SBSCS codes.
• Identify inconsistencies or ambiguities in clinical documentation and ways to improve.
• Explain the physician query process for the accurate coding