This free online course will teach you how to analyse medical records, document them and assign codes to diagnoses. Clinical coding is the process of converting vital medical information into standard alphanumeric codes to accurately document medical records and bill patients. This course covers the basics of clinical coding. You'll learn about clinical records types, the key roles of clinical coding, factors that cause coding errors and more. You'll get a thorough understanding of ICD-10 coding, its concepts and its importance in health care.
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 4-5 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Define clinical coding and the types of clinical coding • Distinguish between billing and coding • Explain key roles in medical coding as well as the factors that cause coding errors • Identify the importance and principles of clinical records • Describe some useful medical terms that are essential for medical coders and billers to know • List the general coding standards that are used for ICD-10 • Recognise some infectious and parasitic diseases and their codes • State the abnormalities, conditions, injuries, signs and symptoms of different systems and the codes that are used for these diseases |
| Course Code | 5283 |
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