Plain English Descriptions for ICD-10-CM
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Bolster medical necessity decision-making and quickly connect documentation to the right ICD-10 code with Plain English Descriptions for ICD-10-CM.
With these Plain English descriptions for ICD-10-CM codes and categories, your non-clinical staff will increase coding accuracy and reduce claims denials by mastering the language. Designed to work with your ICD-10-CM code book, each code category/code range is listed sequentially with its actual ICD code description and a concise explanation of physiology and etiology components encompassed by the code. Get easy-to-understand ICD-10 information that you can rely on — order today!
Features include:
- Plain English Descriptions for more than 5,000 ICD-10-CM codes and categories—increase coding accuracy with comprehensive clinical, coding and documentation guidance
- Risk hierarchical condition indicator to alert you to diagnoses with risk adjustment reporting requirements
- Detailed, full-page anatomy illustrations—better interpret clinical notes and code with greater specificity
- Numerical arrangement—easily find the information you seek. This book mirrors the arrangement of the official ICD-10-CM code set for easy identification
- Diagnostic syndromes—understand what symptoms and/or diseases are included in a syndrome
- Prefixes and suffixes for commonly used medical terms—boost coding speed and accuracy by overcoming any unfamiliar terms in the medical record
Published: September 2020
Page count: 618
Dimensions: 8.5” X 11”
ISBN: 978-1-64535-042-2