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Specialty guidance

Your own rules for Code Captain, by area of the classification: how your workspace codes obstetrics, or cardiology, written down once and read every time it codes there.

Specialty Guidance is open only to the HealthOS administrator account at the moment, so it does not appear in subscribers’ workspaces.

How it is used

  • Code Captain reads a specialty’s guidance the first time it opens a code in that specialty’s ranges. Guidance with no codes is offered for the coder to choose per record.
  • Where guidance disagrees with the coding standards, the standards win.
  • Only published guidance is used. Each result names the guidance versions it was coded under.
  • Everyone in the workspace can read it. Only the workspace administrator can change it.

Start from ours, or your own

From HealthOS lists the guidance we maintain. Choose Customise to copy one to your workspace as a draft. Or choose New specialty under Your workspace and give it a name, the codes it applies to (for example O00-O9A) and the guidance.

Specialty Guidance lists: one draft in Your workspace, Day surgery: endoscopy for K20 to K31, not yet in use, and none yet From HealthOS for ICD-10-AM
An invented draft. Guidance HealthOS publishes appears under From HealthOS.

Write and test a draft

  1. Edit

    Change the name, the codes it applies to and the text, add a note saying what changed, and Save draft.

  2. Preview

    Preview shows exactly what Code Captain will read.

  3. Try it on a sample

    Try on a sample codes some de-identified text you paste under the draft, so you can see the effect before anyone relies on it. Text that still holds identifiers is refused.

The draft open in the editor: its name, the codes it applies to, the guidance text, and the Save draft, Preview, Try on a sample, Publish and Delete draft buttons, with its versions below
A draft is used by Code Captain only once it is published.

Publish, and change your mind

Publish makes the draft the version in use from the next run. Every version is kept: Start a draft from this on an old one brings it back, and Stop using takes a specialty out of use.

ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS and AR-DRG Classification Systems Copyright © Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority. All rights reserved. Copyright in the Licensed Material is owned by the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority. ICD-10-AM is based upon the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) 2019, COVID-expanded © Copyright World Health Organization. All rights reserved. Modified by permission for Australian Government purposes.

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