FEATURES:

• Coverage of common diseases, disorders, and their treatments as they relate to ICD-9-CM coding and reimbursement.
• Instruction on how to code medical documentation using actual medical records including patients’ sheets, clinical resumes, histories and physicals, progress notes, operative reports, lab work, and x-rays. Patient identification has been removed for confidentiality. Actual medical records are HIPAA compliance.
• Information that explains how reimbursement is affected by the coding process, and the importance of following proper coding rules. A section that focuses on the big picture – the impact of coding on Health Services Administration.
• Chapter review exercises to enhance and to reinforce learning of ICD-9-CM codes
• Sixty-seven “67” Case studies that test students’ knowledge by having them identify and code diagnoses and procedures from actual medical records.
• Coding Tips and Red Flags, which provide practical “pearls” for beginning coders and advice on how to avoid common coding errors.
• Coding Practice I includes chapter review questions – gives readers a diagnosis or procedure and ask them to provide the proper code (equivalent to Faye Brown’s textbook)
• Coding Practice II at the end of each chapter allows users to use actual medical reports to assess their coding skills.
• Tables of word parts and meanings provide reminders of critical word parts and meanings of medical terms in each disease specific chapter
• Illustrations reinforces students understanding of medical coding the diseases they will learn