By Tammy Cartiglia, RHIA|August 1st, 2025

As an HIM professional, you know that your coding team’s level of skill can directly impact your organization’s bottom line. Whether you are onboarding new staff, identifying knowledge gaps in established staff, or preparing for regulatory changes, your coders need your support to ensure their work will meet your high standards for both quality and productivity.

So how do you develop coders who are capable of doing the work you need them to do? Libman Education’s Practical Coding Experience offers a modern, effective way to train, assess, and up-skill your team. Practical Coding Experience provides hands-on coding practice coupled with immediate feedback and detailed guidance on correct code assignment, using carefully selected and challenging real-world reports to sharpen coding skills.

Train for Real-World Success, Not Just Test Scores

Many coding education programs focus on the basics of the coding systems or on credential prep, knowing that the real essential learning will occur on the job, in your EHR, with your particular coding challenges.

Practical Coding Experience creates a safe environment for your coding staff to broaden and deepen their coding skills.

Starting with coding of short cases featuring limited complexity, learners progress to coding larger and more challenging cases

Learners receive immediate feedback on codes assigned with detailed rationales

Annotations help the coder identify where all the necessary details to support code selection are found in the documentation

LibmanLightbox™ modules provide additional vital information to enhance the coder’s depth of understanding

Why Managers Love Practical Coding Experience

Job-Ready Learning: Practical Coding Experience prepares coders to handle the complexity of actual patient cases

Scalable Training: Whether supporting one new hire or re-training an entire department, Practical Coding Experience adapts to your team’s needs

Strategic Value: Improved coding quality reduces denials, ensures compliance, and contributes to a healthier revenue cycle

Practical Coding Experience courses are more than just training, they are a strategic investment in the strength and stability of your revenue cycle. Equip your team with the tools they need to code with confidence and accuracy.

Hands-on Coding Practice

Practical Coding Experience: Inpatient and Outpatient

– Immediate feedback

– Detailed guidance on correct code assignment

– AHIMA and AAPC CEUs

Original Article: Practical Coding Experience: A Smarter Way to Up-skill Your Coding Team