The Specialty Training Program.
Your certification taught you to code. This teaches you to think like a senior auditor. Deep dives into the specialties that carry the most DRG weight and the most denial risk.
Founding Members Pricing: $99 per course (ends July 31, 2026). Regular price $299.
Built for coders who are past the basics.
Specialty inpatient coding lives in operative reports, DRG movement, clinical validation, and payer denials — the places general courses never take you.
Each course puts you beside a senior inpatient coding auditor working a real chart: here's how I'd code it, here's the trap, here's what the payer will challenge, here's how to defend it, here's when to query.
Then you do it — scored not just on final codes, but on your reasoning.
Real records, real EHR
Code full-length fictitious hospitalizations in a mock EHR — not toy vignettes.
Scored on reasoning
Feedback by competency: PDX, PCS precision, DRG validation, query judgment, and audit defense.
Defend, don't just code
Practice writing the rationale that survives a payer's clinical-validation review.
Portfolio you keep
Each course leaves you with worksheets, decision tools, and memos for your career.
Who is this track for?
Inpatient Coders
Ready to specialize in high-acuity service lines.
Coding Auditors
Sharpening DRG validation and audit defense.
CDI Specialists
Deepening clinical-validation and query judgment.
Coding Leaders
Building QA, education, and remediation programs.
Fifteen standalone specialty courses
Each is complete on its own. Start with the flagship, or jump straight to the specialty your work demands. Founders Pricing (until July 31st): $99 per course. Regular Pricing: $299.
Advanced Inpatient Audit & DRG Validation
The complete method used across every other course — audit scope, DRG validation, PCS audit, POA/HAC, query & CDI review, clinical validation, denials, and the executive findings memo. The strongest starting point, but never a required prerequisite.
Cardiovascular Coding & Cardiac PCS
The highest-volume, highest-DRG service line — ischemic disease, failure, arrhythmia, and the full cardiac procedure set.
Pre-order →Critical Care, Sepsis & Respiratory Failure
The ICU line — sepsis, respiratory failure, ventilation, and multi-organ failure, where denial risk peaks.
Pre-order →Neurology, Stroke & Neurosurgery
Cerebrovascular disease, altered mental status, and neurosurgical PCS.
Pre-order →Behavioral Health & Substance Use
Psychiatric PDX selection, the substance-use hierarchy, and medical-psychiatric overlap.
Pre-order →Oncology & Hematology Coding
Neoplasm sequencing, treatment-vs-complication logic, hematologic complications, and cancer-surgery PCS.
Pre-order →Advanced PCS Surgical Specialty
Cross-specialty PCS mastery — operative-report deconstruction, root operations, and character precision.
Pre-order →Orthopedic Coding & PCS
Fracture specificity plus the orthopedic PCS build — ORIF, nailing, and joint replacement.
Pre-order →Spine PCS & Complex Spine Coding
A focused PCS deep-dive — fusion approaches, columns, devices, grafts, and revision spine.
Pre-order →Trauma Coding & Trauma PCS
Multi-severe-injury sequencing, external-cause coding, and trauma PCS. DRG validation stays light — the depth is in the Deep Dive.
Pre-order →Burns, Wounds, Debridement & Grafting
Burn depth/TBSA, pressure-injury POA/HAC, and the debridement trap that drives denials.
Pre-order →OB, Maternal-Fetal & Delivery Coding
Chapter 15 sequencing, high-risk pregnancy, delivery PCS, and the paired maternal/newborn record.
Pre-order →NICU & Newborn Coding
Birth-record logic, prematurity, neonatal complications, and NICU procedures across a long stay.
Pre-order →Pediatric Inpatient Coding
Beyond the newborn — pediatric respiratory, sepsis, congenital surgical, and complex medical care.
Pre-order →Coding Operations, QA, Education & Leadership
The senior track — metrics and dashboards, coding technology and risk, education design, and QA leadership.
Pre-order →Become the coder the payers can't argue with.
Pre-order your first specialty today at Founders pricing — and keep that rate on every future specialty. The launch cohort opens in September 2026.
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