The Handbook conforms to the easy-to-use format and style established by Faye Brown and is the most popular textbook for hospital and physician office coder training. Content reflects the latest official coding guidelines, and presents examples in clear, technically correct language that progresses from easy to more difficult.

The 2015 Handbook contains 269 case-summary exercises, as well as 100-plus in-chapter exercises and final review questions. The case-summary exercises are based on actual health records and require readers to consider the patient's condition as well as medical history, reason for admission or encounter, laboratory results, procedures performed, and the diagnoses listed. Readers must apply pertinent coding principles and official coding guidelines in making code assignments and designating the principal diagnosis and procedure for each episode of care. This With Answers version contains answers to the in-chapter and final review exercises, as well as answers to the case summary exercises.

Each chapter includes an overview that highlights the important points, a “learning outcomes” feature and a “terms to know” feature. Both features are designed to help readers understand and absorb new information. A “Remember...” feature provides sidebar comment or facts that alert readers to additional information or perspectives that should not be forgotten when reading the chapter.

The 2015 edition includes official changes from FY 2013 and 2014.  

Major Content Areas

·      Format and conventions and current coding practices for ICD-9-CM
·      Use of supplementary classifications
·      Coding of signs and symptoms
·      Coding of infectious and parasitic diseases, endocrine diseases and immunity disorders, and

             mental disorders
·      Coding of diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and diseases of the nervous system
·      Coding of diseases of the respiratory, digestive, and genitourinary systems
·      Coding of diseases of the skin and diseases of the musculoskeletal system
·      Coding of pregnancy and childbirth complications, abortion, congenital anomalies, and perinatal

            conditions
·      Coding of circulatory system diseases and neoplastic diseases
·      Coding of injuries, burns, poisoning, and complications of care
·      ICD-10-CM preview
·      ICD-10-PCS preview
·      POA requirements
·      PLUS, 260+ case-study exercises
·      Index

About the Editor

Nelly Leon-Chisen, RHIA, Director of Coding and Classification at the AHA, heads the AHA Central Office on ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS and the Central Office on HCPCS. She is the executive editor of AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS and co-author of ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting and the ICD-10-PCS Official Coding Guidelines. Nelly and a team of AHA Central Office staff have reviewed, updated, and improved the Faye Brown ICD-9-CM Coding Handbooks for more than a decade. Nelly authored the 2015 ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Coding Handbooks.   

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