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It is a disciplined path from the words a clinician wrote to the one code that is defensible. Here is that path on a single admission, played out as you scroll.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"story\"><div class=\"stage\">\n      <article class=\"doc\" aria-label=\"Discharge summary excerpt with coding annotations\">\n        <p class=\"doc-tag\">Discharge summary, excerpt<\/p>\n        <p><span class=\"dim\">Presenting problem:<\/span> Admitted with <mark class=\"hl hl-a\">acute cholecystitis<\/mark>.<\/p>\n        <div class=\"rnote rnote-a\"><b>The lead term.<\/b> The condition, not the body part. This is where the Alphabetic Index search starts.<\/div>\n        <p><span class=\"dim\">Imaging:<\/span> Ultrasound abdomen. <mark class=\"hl hl-b\">No calculus<\/mark> noted.<\/p>\n        <div class=\"rnote rnote-b\"><b>The detail that decides the code.<\/b> If a stone were present, the Tabular List&#8217;s Excludes note would send this admission to K80.- instead.<\/div>\n        <p><span class=\"dim\">Progress:<\/span> Managed conservatively. Recovered well.<\/p>\n        <p><span class=\"dim\">Discharged<\/span> home day 2.<\/p>\n      <\/article>\n      <aside class=\"path\" aria-label=\"The coding pathway\">\n        <p class=\"path-tag\">The pathway<\/p>\n        <div class=\"pstep pstep-1\">\n          <h3>1. The Alphabetic Index proposes<\/h3>\n          <p class=\"ln\">Cholecystitis <span class=\"code\">K81.9<\/span>\n  acute <span class=\"chip\">K81.0<\/span>\n  chronic <span class=\"code\">K81.1<\/span><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"pstep pstep-2\">\n          <h3>2. The Tabular List decides<\/h3>\n          <p class=\"ln\"><span class=\"chip\">K81.0<\/span>  Acute cholecystitis\n<span class=\"dim\">Excludes: with cholelithiasis or\n          choledocholithiasis (<\/span><span class=\"code\">K80.-<\/span><span class=\"dim\">)<\/span><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"stamp\">\n          <span class=\"big\">K81.0<\/span>\n          <p>Read, followed, verified. The code you can defend, and the sequence this course drills until it is second nature.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/aside>\n    <\/div><\/div>\n  <\/div><\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"sec tint\"><div class=\"wrap\"><div class=\"course-grid\">\n    <div class=\"course-img\" style=\"background-image:url('https:\/\/talentmed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/clinical-coding-lesson-my-talentmed-1536x816.jpeg');\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"A clinical coding lesson in the My TalentMed learning platform\"><\/div>\n    <div class=\"course-body\">\n      <p class=\"tagline\">Professional development course<\/p>\n      <h2>Clinical Coding with ICD-10-AM<\/h2>\n      <p>Eight modules that take you from no prior background to reading a medical record and assigning codes with confidence. Foundations, the patient medical record, medical terminology and anatomy, then diagnosis and procedure coding with ICD-10-AM, ACHI and the Australian Coding Standards.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"price\"><b>NZ$3,695<\/b><span>12 months access, self-paced<\/span><\/div>\n      <a class=\"btn\" href=\"\/nz\/courses\/clinical-coding\/\">Explore the course <span class=\"arw\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"sec\"><div class=\"wrap\">\n    <h2 style=\"max-width:22ch;margin-bottom:44px;\">Taught the way the job is actually done.<\/h2>\n    <div class=\"bento\">\n      <div class=\"cell photo wide\" style=\"background-image:url('https:\/\/talentmed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Clinical-Coding-from-Home.jpeg');\">\n        <div class=\"cap\">\n          <h3>Built by working coders<\/h3>\n          <p>Every module is written and reviewed by experienced clinical coders, so what you learn reflects how coding is really done, not how a textbook describes it.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"cell tint\">\n        <h3>Practical, not theoretical<\/h3>\n        <p>You code real worked episodes end to end. 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