Produced in cooperation with the Central Office on ICD-9-CM of the American Hospital Association. Incorporates official changes for fiscal year 1999, and changes that took effect on October 1, 1998. There will be no changes to ICD-9-CM on October 1, 1999. This decision was published in the Federal Register on May 7, 1999. For students and coding personnel. Softcover.
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This ICD-9-CM Coding Handbook is the only edition published in cooperation with the Central Office on ICD-9-CM of the American Hospital Association, an official industry body that participates in the editorial development, preliminary testing and national committee and congressional hearings on ICD-9 and ICD-10. This handbook provides:
-More than 100 review exercises interspersed throughout the text and at the end of the chapters
-It allows coders to practice their coding skills on examples that closely resemble actual patient records
-Answers not only list the correct codes and principal diagnoses, they also explain in detail why a particular code is correct and provide additional information
Nelly Leon-Chisen, RHIA, heads the AHA Central Office on ICD-9-CM and the Central Office on HCPCS. She is the executive editor of AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS and co-author of ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting. Nelly and a team of AHA Central Office staff have contributed to the Faye Brown Handbooks since Fay Brown's death. They have annually reviewed, updated and improved the ICD-9-CM Coding Handbook. Nelly authored the 2012 ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Coding Handbooks.
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