Product Notes: Item Out of Print for Year.
AMA's Full-Size Hospital Edition of ICD-9-CM
Stay up-to-date with the most recent Hospital ICD-9-CM code changes. Includes dictionary-style headings, color tabs and legends on each page. Complete features include:
- Current official code set with complete summary of code Changes - Provides a quick reference to all relevant 2008 changes; includes instructional notes, additional conventions and complete coding guidelines
- Crosswalk - Allows user to easily replace no longer valid codes with the appropriate 2008 codes
- Clinically-oriented definitions and illustrations, also includes full-color anatomical charts
- Color fourth- and fifth-digit alert symbols in index and Tabular - Flags when an additional digit is required
- Valid three-digit list - Complete list is used to identify a condition or disease when an additional digit is not available
- Age and sex edits - Correctly identify codes that are restricted dependent upon age or sex of patient, lowering claim delays and denials
- V code designation symbol alerts - Quickly recognize when V codes can be used only as primary or only as an additional diagnosis
- "Nonspecific" and "Unacceptable" Primary Diagnosis code symbol alerts
