Overview
Updated to include the new and revised ICD-9-CM codes for 2008, this comprehensive, system-based text teaches the essential ICD-9-CM coding skills needed in medical coding and billing careers. The text provides an overview of ICD-9-CM guidelines on coding practice and introduces students to medical records, including how to locate information and code accurately and efficiently.
The book covers symptoms, signs, diagnoses, procedures, and their ICD-9-CM codes by system, and uses actual medical records to show how to code conditions and procedures. A section explains how the coding process affects reimbursement and health services administration. Each chapter includes coding practice exercises.
Synopsis
Updated to include the new and revised ICD-9-CM codes for 2008, this comprehensive, system-based text teaches the essential ICD-9-CM coding skills needed in medical coding and billing careers. The text provides an overview of ICD-9-CM guidelines on coding practice and introduces students to medical records, including how to locate information and code accurately and efficiently.
The book covers symptoms, signs, diagnoses, procedures, and their ICD-9-CM codes by system, and uses actual medical records to show how to code conditions and procedures. A section explains how the coding process affects reimbursement and health services administration. Each chapter includes coding practice exercises.
Doody Review Services
Reviewer:Therese M. Jorwic, MPH, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, FAHIMA(Univ of Illinois at Chicago School of Biomed & Health Info Mgmt)
Description:This coding instruction book is intended to be a training manual for medical coding professionals at the graduate, undergraduate, and technical/vocational levels. It incorporates coding instruction with some medical terminology and pathophysiology information as well as coding examples taken from excerpts of actual medical records.
Purpose:The book is intended as a training manual for a broad base of students from the vocational and technical to the undergraduate and graduate levels. It aims to include more extensive examples for coding exercises that go beyond diagnostic and procedural statements or short scenarios. Books that help to teach coding are always needed as the demand for coding professionals is great. The objective of including more extensive examples is met, as most chapters include several long medical record-based coding exercises.
Audience:Students in a coding class or program are the intended audience. The stated audience, which includes students at the associate, undergraduate, and graduate levels, is broad and meeting the objectives of all of these students is probably not an easy task. The later chapters, however, do cover some topics that might be more of interest to the graduate level student.
Features:The topic of coding in general is covered, as are coding guidelines and the contents of the medical record as a basis of documentation for coding. The majority of the book consists of coding instruction for specific chapters in the ICD-9-CM. The last part of the book discusses managed care and MS-DRG systems. The examples, tips, red flags, word part tables, and coding practice exercises are all good features, particularly the lengthy medical record case studies. Some of the information is incorrect. For example, the guidelines on septic shock call for two codes when a minimum of three are required. Also the author does not reference the Official Reporting Guidelines and the Cooperating Parties, though the AHA Coding Clinic is mentioned. Although these examples may seem like small points, these are important issues when training students in ICD-9-CM coding. As codes and guidelines change annually, the book must be updated annually.
Assessment:This comprehensive book includes a great deal of information on ICD-9-CM coding and provides some good coding exercises from medical record type examples. Due to some observed inaccuracies in guidelines, this book does not compare well to the two that I am most familiar with: both Basic ICD-9-CM Coding 2009, Schraffenberger (American Health Information Management Association, 2009), and Faye Brown's ICD-9-CM Coding Handbook 2009 With Answers , Leon-Chisen, (AHA Press, 2009), include references to official reporting guidelines.
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From The Critics
Reviewer: Therese M. Jorwic, MPH, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, FAHIMA(Univ of Illinois at Chicago School of Biomed & Health Info Mgmt)Description: This coding instruction book is intended to be a training manual for medical coding professionals at the graduate, undergraduate, and technical/vocational levels. It incorporates coding instruction with some medical terminology and pathophysiology information as well as coding examples taken from excerpts of actual medical records.
Purpose: The book is intended as a training manual for a broad base of students from the vocational and technical to the undergraduate and graduate levels. It aims to include more extensive examples for coding exercises that go beyond diagnostic and procedural statements or short scenarios. Books that help to teach coding are always needed as the demand for coding professionals is great. The objective of including more extensive examples is met, as most chapters include several long medical record-based coding exercises.
Audience: Students in a coding class or program are the intended audience. The stated audience, which includes students at the associate, undergraduate, and graduate levels, is broad and meeting the objectives of all of these students is probably not an easy task. The later chapters, however, do cover some topics that might be more of interest to the graduate level student.
Features: "The topic of coding in general is covered, as are coding guidelines and the contents of the medical record as a basis of documentation for coding. The majority of the book consists of coding instruction for specific chapters in the ICD-9-CM. The last part of the book discusses managed care and MS-DRG systems. The examples, tips, red flags, word part tables, and coding practice exercises are all good features, particularly the lengthy medical record case studies. Some of the information is incorrect. For example, the guidelines on septic shock call for two codes when a minimum of three are required. Also the author does not reference the Official Reporting Guidelines and the Cooperating Parties, though the AHA Coding Clinic is mentioned. Although these examples may seem like small points, these are important issues when training students in ICD-9-CM coding. As codes and guidelines change annually, the book must be updated annually. "
Assessment: This comprehensive book includes a great deal of information on ICD-9-CM coding and provides some good coding exercises from medical record type examples. Due to some observed inaccuracies in guidelines, this book does not compare well to the two that I am most familiar with: both Basic ICD-9-CM Coding 2009, Schraffenberger (American Health Information Management Association, 2009), and Faye Brown's ICD-9-CM Coding Handbook 2009 With Answers , Leon-Chisen, (AHA Press, 2009), include references to official reporting guidelines.