This book was produced because the ICD-9-CM book and coding guidelines may not always have all the information you need. The 2011 Plain English Descriptions for ICD-9-CM is fully updated and provides coders, medical staff, payers and health care professionals with comprehensive clinical, coding and documentation guidance for over 11,000 ICD-9-CM codes and categories.
- NEW! ICD-9-CM Official Coding Guidelines integrated at the code level — one-stop code and guideline look-up
- NEW! Detailed, full-page anatomy illustrations plus hundreds of code-specific illustrations that have been integrated into the book — helps you interpret clinical notes to code with more specificity
- Plain English Descriptions of terminology found in the medical record to provide detailed clinical explanations of the ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes — helps you assign the most appropriate code
- Plain English Descriptions for syndromes linking definitions to the applicable ICD-9-CM codes — understand what symptoms and/or diseases are included in a syndrome
- Numerically arranged just like your ICD-9-CM — easy identification and look-up
- AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9-CM references — helps you validate code choices
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