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 the reader 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.

Contents

Introduction to ICD-9-CM

1. Introduction to ICD-9-CM Coding
2. Coding Conventions, Rules, and Guidelines
3. Medical Records: The Basis for All Coding

Coding for Specific Diseases and Disorders

4. Coding for Symptoms, Signs, and Ill-Defined Conditions
5. Coding for Endocrine, Nutritional, Metabolic, and Immune Disorders
6. Coding for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases
7. Coding for Digestive System Diseases
8. Coding for Respiratory System Diseases
9. Coding for Genitourinary System Diseases
10. Coding for Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue Diseases
11. Coding for Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue Diseases
12. Coding for Diseases of the Nervous System and Sense Organs
13. Coding for Diseases of the Circulatory System, Blood, and Blood-Forming Organs
14. Coding for Neoplasms
15. Coding for Complications of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Puerperium
16. Coding for Conditions in the Perinatal Period and Congenital Anomalies
17. Coding for Injury and Poisoning
18. Coding for Complications of Surgical and Medical Care
19. Coding for Mental Disorders

The Impact of Coding on Health Services Administration

20. Managed Health Care and Health Information Management

Appendices

• Medicare Severity-Adjusted Diagnostic Related Groups (MS-DRGs)
• Laboratory Reference Range Values
• Medical Prefixes, Suffixes, and Combining Forms
• Common Medical Abbreviations and Acronyms
• New ICD-9-CM Codes for 2008
• Answers to Testing Your Comprehension
• Answers to Coding Practice I: Chapter Review Exercises

Index

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