This podcast will go over the Assignment Schedule. The main thing I want to show you
is the formatting and to be sure that you pay attention to which textbook
or code book is being referenced in the reading assignment. The far left column
is the "week" that we are in or referring to. Then in the "Read" column we break out the
reading assignments for the Coding Handbook which is the book by the
American Hospital Association that was written by Nellie Leon Chisen
and then the Optum code book is the second one. You also see as you go down, I
refer to those two PDFs that would be available in week 2. They are the 2017
Official Guidelines and the updated Chapter Guidelines. These are here
because when the code book was published in late 2016, the 2017 guidelines were
not ready by the time the code book went to press. So the 2017 code book from
Optum was published with the 2016 guidelines in it. So of course we had to
refer to the 2017 guidelines in order to be correct. Optum provided the 2017
guidelines as well as the updated chapter guidelines from theTtabular as a
way for us to have access to the correct guidelines. I haven't seen the code book
that you have in front of you for this Fall 2017. Hopefully it has the 2017
guidelines in it. You will know that by just looking at the title page for the
guidelines, up at the very top. The 2016 version had
a little text box a shadow box that said these are the 2016 guidelines because
the 2017 guidelines were not ready when the book went to print. Just pay
attention to that and be sure you are using the 2017 guidelines. If you have
any questions about that let me know. The next column has your "Complete" which is
going to be all the podcasts you must watch as well as any quizzes, exercises,
exams that kind of thing. Next column are the dates that these are due and the
last column are the point values. When you move to week 2, same kind of thing, Pay
attention that there is a Coding Clinic here. There are podcasts
for the different chapters. I also want to make a point if I haven't already
that the chapters in the textbook do not match the chapters in the code book and I
think that's so unfortunate. You really have to pay attention that you
are looking at the correct book. When you talk about Chapter 7, (it) is in the Coding
Handbook. OK pay attention to that. When we get to week 3, we're finally in the
code book, you'll see here the Coding Handbook Chapter 14 Infectious and
Parasitic Diseases and that corresponds to Chapter 1 in the code book. Neoplasms
are Chapter 29 in the handbook, corresponding to Chapter 2 in the
code book. If you look down here, you see these are the handbook chapters and here
are the code book chapters.
If you have any questions about the Assignment Schedule, please let me know and
I will be glad to answer any questions. Thank you very much.