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These self-paced, Web-based Coding Overview courses and their related assessments are designed to provide training across all settings for coders with prior experience who need a "refresher" in coding practices and guidelines.
The three courses are:
Click on any title above to get a full course description.
A learner may order one or more of these courses and assessments online. The three courses may also be purchased as a group. Just click ADD TO CART under the correct title below. (Information about how to purchase multiple-user licenses is available at the end of this page.)
Detail
Click on the categories below for more detail:
Prerequisites
It is recommended that students have coding experience before taking CATS training. Coding Assessment and Training Solutions® is designed as continuing education for coders at the intermediate and advanced levels. If you don't have coding experience, you should start with our Coding Basics Program.
Required
Students will need access to up-to-date ICD-9-CM and HCPCS/CPT codes as appropriate. All other learning materials and activities are provided online.
Credits
An AHIMA Certificate of Completion and 5 to 13 CEUs are awarded for each successfully completed Overview course. (Successful completion is defined as scoring 70% or better on the final assessment for a course. Finals may be taken multiple times.)
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CEUs
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Overview Course: Using ICD-9-CM
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13
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Overview Course: Using HCPCS/CPT
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8
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Overview Course: Reimbursement
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5
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Overview Assessment: Using ICD-9-CM
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1
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Overview Assessment: Using HCPCS/CPT
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1
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Overview Assessment: Reimbursement
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1
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Courses Begin
Online course purchases made by credit card are available immediately. If you choose the check or purchase order payment option during registration, you must allow seven to ten BUSINESS days after you mail your payment (and a copy of your online invoice) for your payment to be received and processed.
Registration
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Overview Course: Using ICD-9-CM
$315 regular price
$260 member price
Overview Assessment: Using ICD-9-CM
$18 regular price
$15 member price
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This 13 CEU, 2-module refresher course and its related 15-question, 1 CEU assessment explore ICD-9-CM classification system concepts, structure of ICD-9-CM Volumes 1, 2 and 3, ICD-9-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, outpatient-specific guidelines, procedure-specific guidelines, determining prinicipal diagnosis for hospital records, and coding operations on the respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive and integumentary systems. Practice exercises are included.
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Overview Course: Using HCPCS/CPT
$195 regular price
$160 member price
Overview Assessment: Using HCPCS/CPT
$18 regular price
$15 member price
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This 8 CEU refresher course and its related 10-question, 1 CEU assessment explore HCPCS/CPT procedure coding, starting with a general overview of CPT: its conventions and characteristics. The course also reviews CPT coding guidelines for surgery, medicine, and the integumentary, musculoskeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, geritourinary, gynecological, and sensory systems. Lessons on modifiers, HCPCS Level II and III Coding and E&M coding guidelines are also included.
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Overview Course: Reimbursement
$120 regular price
$100 AHIMA Member Price
Overview Assessment: Reimbursement
$18 regular price
$15 member price
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This 5 CEU refresher course and its related 10-question, 1 CEU assessment explore reimbursement in general, as well as claims processing issues, freestanding ASC, reimbursement for professional services, inpatient and outpatient PPS, and PPS for skilled nursing facilities, long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, home health and hospice services. Compliance issues related to reimbursement are also covered.
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All Overview Courses
SAVE $70 - $85!
Buy all three Overview courses at one time and get a price break.
$575 regular price
$480 member price
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Facilities interested in purchasing multiple licenses for courses and/or assessments should contact James Bannen via e-mail
at James.Bannen@ahima.org. Questions about online registration for individual users should be directed to cats.support@ahima.org.
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