An inpatient coder has come to you, the director of HIM, with… An inpatient coder has come to you, the director of HIM, with concerns that

An inpatient coder has come to you, the director of HIM, with… An inpatient coder has come to you, the director of HIM, with concerns that she has been instructed by the coding supervisor to code all bedside debridements as excisional. When you discuss this with the coding supervisor, she explains that surgical trays are ordered for the bedside and that physicians have been ignoring the queries requesting clarification. Instead, they orally state that the debridements are always excisional. Therefore, she issued the directive to the staff.  1. Use the ethical decision-making process to determine if this is an unethical situation and, if so, what principle of the AHIMA Code of Ethics or AHIMA’s Standards of Ethical Coding it violates. CHAPTER 21HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGYAN APPLIED APPROACHSIXTH EDITIONNANETTE B. SAYLESLESLIE L.GORDON Science Health Science Share QuestionEmailCopy link