The Australian Medical Coding course is divided into 24 modules and is available in online format. This course lasts 60 live hours and is taught by Industry Experts. You will  learn ICD 10 AM Diagnosis Coding, ACHI Procedure Coding, and ACS Coding Standards and you will master ICD 10 AM Clinical Coding. You can work in India(Few Companies are working on these projects), Australia, Singapore, Ireland, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Qatar, Bahrain, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the Fiji Islands, the Philippines, and Tonga etc.

Course Objectives:

After completing Erendiz Academy’s Comprehensive ICD-10-AM Training, you will have solid knowledge and skills in the following areas:

• Understanding and using ICD-10-AM and ACHI conventions and instructions.
• Recognizing and implementing ICD-10-AM and ACHI 10th edition modifications.
• The interpretation and application of the Australian Coding Standards.
• Choosing relevant circumstances and processes for coding in accordance with Australian Coding Standards and ICD-10-AM and ACHI conventions.
• Identifying the primary diagnosis for an admission using ICD-10-AM and Australian Coding Standards rules.
• Using ICD-10-AM and ACHI codes to assign comprehensive and accurate codes for diseases, ailments, injuries, and treatments.
• Ability to code principal diagnosis, additional diagnoses, use of supplementary codes for chronic conditions by applying ACS standards.
• Understand coding rules and code sequencing.

What is Australian Modification?

ICD-10-AM (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification) codes are a disease classification based on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD10). The categorization is a system of categories to which morbid entries are assigned according to established criteria.

ICD-10-AM codes are based on clinical concepts such as diseases, symptoms (which are important difficulties in medical care in and of themselves), injuries, poisonings, and/or side effects, and procedure complications.

What is an ACHI Code?

ACHI (The Australian Classification of Health Interventions) codes are a type of intervention classification based on the Commonwealth Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS). ACHI is the national standard for intervention coding in Australian hospitals.

ACHI classifies interventions (procedures) conducted in public hospitals and private hospitals, day centers and ambulatory settings. Allied health interventions, dental services, and other outside operating room interventions are also included.

ACHI incorporates (with some exceptions) items from the MBS and the Australian Schedule of Dental Services and Glossary (ADA). Each MBS item number is assigned a two-digit extension number to denote distinct interventional concepts. Other ACHI concepts not covered by the MBS or ADA are assigned a code number from the remaining 90000 series.

ACHI Eleventh Edition is now being used in Australia for admitted episodes of care. The Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) is in charge of ACHI’s future development.

ACHI codes are made up of the following elements:

• Numeric codes
• Code length: 7 characters (not including punctuation)
• Utilized by public and private hospitals for activity-based funding, epidemiology, research, and service planning.

ACHI codes do not: – Define diseases, symptoms (which are major problems in medical treatment in and of themselves), injuries, poisonings, and/or adverse effects and procedural complications.

What is Principal Diagnosis?

A principal diagnosis is determined after the study to be mainly responsible for occasioning of an episode of admitted patient care, an episode of residential care, or an attendance at a health care establishment, as reflected by a code.

A primary diagnosis can be: –

Madeby, information gleaned from a patient’s medical history, any mental state evaluation, specialist consultations, the physical examination, the diagnostic tests and or procedures, any surgical procedures, and any pathological or radiological examination.

A primary diagnosis cannot be:

• A diagnosis code from Australian Coding Standard 0050 is an unacceptable primary diagnostic code.
• A neoplastic morphology (M8000/0 – M9999/9) 
• An external source, activity, or location of occurrence (U50-U73, U90, V00-Y98) – a chronic condition additional code (U78-U88).

The Australian Coding Standards, which are used to assign diagnostic codes throughout the clinical coding process, can have an impact on the assignment of the principal diagnosis code for specialties such as obstetrics and trauma.

The principal diagnosis wouldn’t be the most “resource-intensive” ailment with which the patient arrives or suffers during their episode of care. It is the main known cause resulting in hospitalization.

What are DRG’s?

DRGs (diagnosis-related groups) are a patient classification system that provides a clinically useful way of correlating the types of patients treated in a hospital to the available resources needed by hospital. On the basis of clinical complexity, DRGs are organized under an adjacent diagnosis related group (ADRG).

Other variables, such as age, length of stay, and separation mode, may occasionally define ADRGs. An ADRG is a code made up of alpha and two numeric characters, whereas a DRG includes the same alpha and two numeric characters as well as an additional alpha character.

DRG’s are:-

• DRGs are calculated for each episode of admitted care and then separated (fourth alpha character) to reflect their rank within an ADRG.
• Used in activity-based funding
• Generated in multiple versions for the Statistical Services Branch’s continuing data analysis and reporting

DRG’s do not:-

• In the grouping procedure, DRGs do not employ supplementary codes for chronic conditions.
• Always associate with a single body system or aetiology (major diagnostic category). There are three ‘error DRGs’ as well. Error DRGs are episodes that contain unusual or incorrect data.