Now enhanced with a new, bolder font to improve readability, the Ingenix updateable ICD-9-CM Expert for Physicians continues to provide accurate and comprehensive coverage for diagnosis coding and reimbursement. Loaded with innovative features and content to address regulatory changes and coding challenges, Ingenix experts study industry changes and trends while seeking feedback from coding professionals to ensure your code book provides accurate and up-to-date information in an easy-to-use, intuitive format. Stay current year round and step ahead with a resource that’s designed to enhance performance in your daily work. This expert choice is updated three times per year so you will never have to write in updated edits, coding advice, or official changes.
Exclusive to the Updateable edition:
- Three yearly updates. Keep up-to-date all year:
- September 2011: Full-text update with new codes and updated Coding Clinic references.
- February 2012: New illustrations, definitions, Coding Clinic reference, and updated coding edits.
- July 2012: Newsletter with a preview of the next year's codes.
- AHA’s Coding Clinic topic summaries. Review a summary of coding advice from the latest AHA Coding Clinics with the September and February updates.
Exclusive features of the Expert edition:
- Ingenix Edge — ICD-9-CM Code Changes: An Insider’s View. Find detailed, chapter-by-chapter clinical and coding tips for all the new 2012 codes in a single resource.
- Ingenix Edge — ICD-10 Spotlight. Preview ICD-10 codes with the most frequently reported ICD-9-CM codes to learn as you work.
- Ingenix Edge — Coding Tables. Reduce time spent on code selection for complex diagnoses that typically require additional research and steps (includes exclusive table covering Personal/Family history code assignment).
- Ingenix Edge — 10 Steps to Correct Coding.Receive step-by-step instructions to improve coding accuracy and more effectively use ICD-9-CM conventions.
- Valid three-digit code list. See at a glance whether a code is valid for claim submission to prevent denied claims due to invalid code usage.
- E-mail alerts for special reports. Stay current on the latest regulatory and ICD-9-CM code changes via electronic notification when new, crucial information posts to the Ingenix website.
Also includes these hallmark features:
- New — Highlighted coding informational notes. Recognize important code usage guidance for specific sections more easily with highlighted notes.
- Ingenix Edge — Intuitive color-coded symbols and alerts. Identify critical coding and reimbursement issues quickly with alerts on the same page as the code you need.
- Ingenix Edge — AHA’s Coding Clinic and official coding guideline tips. Use citations to link to the official coding advice every coder in every health care setting must follow for ICD-9-CM and find official coding tips with the codes.
- Ingenix Edge — Instructional and informational note labels. Find coding notes clearly designated for enhanced emphasis and coding accuracy.
- Ingenix Edge — Additional digit required symbols. Know when an additional fourth or fifth digit is required for code specificity and validity to avoid invalid code submissions (provided in Index and Tabular Section).
- V-code symbols. Understand the appropriate use of V-codes that may only be sequenced as first-listed diagnosis for cleaner claim submissions.
- Manifestation code alert. Properly use codes that represent manifestations of underlying disease by knowing when two codes are required and by knowing alerts to sequencing rules.
- Illustrations and definitions. Gain in-depth understanding of anatomy and disease processes in relation to coding with clinically-oriented definitions and illustrations.
- “Unspecified” and “Other specified” code alerts. Recognize the codes that should be used with caution to reduce denied claims.
- Age and sex edits. Be aware of which codes have restrictions on use based on age or sex of the patient to prevent claim delays and denials.
- Ingenix Edge — New and revised code alerts with dated pages. Know which codes and instructions are new or revised, with dates on the page indicating when the change was made.
- Ingenix Edge — Synopsis of code changes. Perform accurate, retrospective claim audits by quickly identifying new code information for the year.
- Ingenix Edge — Hallmark page design and features. Locate information quickly with a user-friendly page design, including dictionary-style headers, QuickflipTM color bleed tabs, and legend keys.
- HIPAA compliance. Comply with HIPAA code set requirements to avoid delayed or denied claims and costly fines for violations.
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