Seminar 3: Pathology Coding Topic summary: Surgical Pathology is the study of tissues taken out of a patient during a surgery to diagnose a disease and determine treatment. Surg Path includes 2 types of specimens, biopsies and surgical resections. This also includes review of foreign materials removed during a surgery. Speaker: Faye Hoang, CPC Speaker bio: Faye received her CPC in 2008, since then, she’d coded for the department of Pathology at UCSF for 4 years before becoming an educator and internal compliance analyst for the unit in 2012. Time: 60 Mins Agenda: Briefing: 15 mins What is Surgical Pathology? Gross vs Biopsy vs resections? Main content: 30mins -Gross review only -Biopsy coding levels, per part -Resections coding levels -Single specimen -Multi-specimen bundling rules: Laryngectomy, Whipple, mastectomy Application: 15 mins There will be a quiz and discussion of the final codes for 1 simple and 2 complex cases
Seminar 3: Pathology Coding Topic summary: Surgical Pathology is the study of tissues taken out of a patient during a surgery to diagnose a disease and determine treatment. Surg Path includes 2 types of specimens, biopsies and surgical resections. This also includes review of foreign materials removed during a surgery. Speaker: Faye Hoang, CPC Speaker bio: Faye received her CPC in 2008, since then, she’d coded for the department of Pathology at UCSF for 4 years before becoming an educator and internal compliance analyst for the unit in 2012. Time: 60 Mins Agenda: Briefing: 15 mins What is Surgical Pathology? Gross vs Biopsy vs resections? Main content: 30mins -Gross review only -Biopsy coding levels, per part -Resections coding levels -Single specimen -Multi-specimen bundling rules: Laryngectomy, Whipple, mastectomy Application: 15 mins There will be a quiz and discussion of the final codes for 1 simple and 2 complex cases
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