Faye Brown's ICD-9-CM Coding Handbook Without Answers

Published in cooperation with the Central Office on ICD-9-CM of the American Hospital Association, the New 2000 Edition of the ICD-9-CM Coding Handbook is...-- The only reference that incorporates the official ICD-9-CM changes for fiscal year 2001-- The most widely used publication for teaching ICD-9-CM-- Designed for use by both entry-level and more experienced codersThere are more than 100 review exercises interspersed throughout the text and at the end of the chapters. These exercises describe additional information about a patient's background or present condition, and allow coders to practice their coding skills on examples that closely resemble actual patient records. The answers to these exercises not only provide the correct codes and principal diagnoses, they also explain why a particular code is correct or what information is most important in a certain case.