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Answer Key Helps You Learn Beginning ICD-9-CM Coding Skills
AHA has discontinued the Workbooks for Beginning Coders as freestanding books and added that content to the Faye Brown ICD-9-CM Coding Hand Book 2009 with Answers.
Written by Janatha R. Ashton, RHIA, MS, with technical review by the Central Office on ICD-9-CM of the AHA.
- Companion workbook for the ICD-9-CM Coding Handbook 2008
- Basic and advanced exercises with accurate answers
- Used in both certificate and HIM courses
- Designed for academic and professional
A proven exercise textbook that can also be used as an ancillary text for certificate program students, for self-instruction, or for reference. It contains hundreds of self-learning exercises based on real health records. The case summary exercise style requires students to consider the patient’s condition as well as all relevant information provided: medical history, reason for admission or encounter, laboratory results, procedures performed, and the diagnoses listed. In all exercises, students must apply pertinent coding principles and official coding guidelines in making code assignments and designating the principal diagnosis and procedure for each episode of care.
Both difficult and less challenging practice drills test the user’s coding skills in a variety of realistic health care settings—from the physician office to inpatient care.
Answer Key Supplement
The codes and comments in the answer key supplement reflect the latest official coding guidelines and are provided in clean, technically correct language. The answer key shows a list of correctly assigned and appropriately sequenced codes. The list of codes for each exercise is followed by a comments section, which explains how the codes were assigned and why some codes were not assigned. The comments also direct readers to pertinent entries in the three volumes of ICD-9-CM and often include references to helpful discussions and guidelines in the ICD-9-CM Coding Handbook 2008.
Table of Contents
- Symptoms, Signs, and Ill-Defined Condition
- Infectious and Parasitic Diseases
- Endocrine, Metabolic and Nutritional Diseases and Immune-System Disorders
- Mental Disorders
- Diseases of the Blood and Blood-Forming Organs
- Diseases of the Nervous System and Sense Organs
- Diseases of the Respiratory System
- Diseases of the Digestive System
- Diseases of the Genitourinary System
- Diseases of the Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue
- Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue
- Complications of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Puerperium
- Abortion and Ectopic Pregnancy
- Congenital Anomalies
- Perinatal Conditions
- Diseases of the Circulatory System
- Neoplasms
- Injuries
- Burns
- Poisoning and Adverse Effects of Drugs
- Complications of Surgery and Medical Care
