Internship - Blog #2

My internship is progressing very good, so far. It is amazing to see how the administrative staff operates on a daily basis.


I must say that i am very surprised that the materials that i read and study in school, are actually taking place. It is like applying the concept that i read in a book to a given situation in the facility.


Today, i spend the day in the Medical Records Department. It was great. I got the opportunity to work with a coder. She showed me how to read a patient's diagnosis (the reason why the patient was admitted to the facility). I also looked up codes for the patient diagnosis. After reading the patient's complete medical file, i had to determine what their principle diagnosis was, followed by the secondary diagnosis. Then i had to see what other v-codes needed to be assigned.


Since my minor is in Helath Informatics Management, i gained knowlege and hands on experience in reading a patients' history and physical sheet, along with other medical records, so that we can bill medicaid.