ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCs Coding Handbook with Answers 2016

This is a book that I use every single day. I have been coding about 6 years now. Started coding inpatients just as ICD-10 was implemented, so everything was new all at the same time and I felt a little lost, not knowing where to start.This was one of the books used in training where I work and it's so far been the absolute most valuable tool I have ever used. (I have a lot of books)What's so cool about it is that everything you need to know about each section is all together. So guidelines, rules,clinical indicators, etc are explained in a very clear, straightforward way that's easy to understand. Each section also has examples which is very helpful.I used plastic stick on tabs to organize my book by chapter. It makes it so much easier to quickly find exactly what you need.Even if you are not coding inpatients yet, it's excellent for beginners or anyone aspiring to be a coder.I recommend this book 100%, don't hesitate!!

I think this is the go-to book for coding professionals. If you want to learn to code with ICD-10 and you have a good background in A&P and a coding background or education in coding, you will find everything you need to learn it in this book. For me, it was a more complete preparation than the short courses I've seen offered, but then I've always been better at studying on my own. If you are not good at studying on your own without deadlines, you might want to use this book by forming a study group too keep you on schedule with your goals. ICD-10 is harder than ICD-9, so you definitely need to have taken a couple of A&P courses before trying to learn it because ICD-10 is very anatomy specific. I've been in several study groups that used the ICD-9-CM AHA coding handbook to study for the coding certifications.The folks in my groups who actually took the exam were very successful after studying using this book. I haven't gotten up the nerve to take the test yet, but hopefully I will take it eventually. I bought the new ICD-10 version of the book because I want to learn ICD-10 the same way I learned ICD-9, by starting from scratch. After taking the required 10 CEU hours in ICD-10, I just wasn't confident with my knowledge, so I turned to the go-to book for coding professionals.The AHA coding handbook is used by many of the accredited coding schools. The ICD-9 version of the AHA coding handbook was so well known it used to be refereed to simply as the "Faye Brown" book. I think Faye Brown was the original author/editor of the ICD-9 version of this book. It has been around for a long time, has been validated by many coding and teaching professionals, so it is a very good study guide.

I bought this for reference material to make sure I am coding correctly since I am new to ICD10 (as are we all). I did prefer the Faye Brown format because they took coding guidelines and broke them down into lessons so that by the time you completed the workbook, you have a good handle on coding guidelines. This new format is the replacement for Faye Brown. It's just broken down differently because ICD10 is broken down differently from ICD9 and they are just trying to meet that need. I am sure I will get used to it. I am just glad to have it.

Looking to learn medical coding after 25 years in a different area of healthcare. There are two versions of this book, one with answers and one without. The problem with the answers version is the author/publisher includes the answers right beside the question. Now I have to preemptively take sticky notes and cover the answers for the questions throughout the huge book. Perhaps the author/publisher could place the answers on their website and just sell a single No Answers version starting in 2017. This issue was not well thought out at all. Hoping the book still serves me well despite this issue.

The book came promptly and in good shape. However I wish there was another book to learn from for my courses. The author is quite often incoherent, and sometimes the sentence structures leave me baffled. I figure them out but I wonder how they made it past editing. After all, in a book, and subject, that makes repeated statements on the need for accuracy, this book contains far too many errors.To name merely two (of many). On page 424 after explanation of coronary artery bypass grafting the author states: "All coronary bypass procedures do not involve the aorta." What? First, it sounds like the twisted sentences that obtain during introduction classes of logic covering the syllogism. I think the author means to say that not all coronary bypass procedures involve the aorta. On page 419, 2nd paragraph, a reference is made to a seventh character value in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy - it is the 6th character.Luckily by this point I am used to such errors and no longer freak out.The author also has a penchant for convoluted structures while using multiple procedural main terms, root operations, like repair, replacement or revision as normal words while also using them as main terms. Many times I have had to parse out and diagram a sentence or paragraph just to get it untangled and then rewrite it myself so it is understandable English.Otoh, I can't imagine it was easy to write a guide book to the mash that is ICD 10, so I will be fair and give it 3 stars. If you get lost in the book though, you will have to find your own way out. I have called my school about confusions a number of times and have got contradictory answers to questions, to silences, to stuttering er... uh.... um. That would be because not only is ICD 10 is ridiculously mammoth (some 155,000 codes for both diagnosis and procedure) and abstract (particularly the procedural coding) but because your teachers haven't used it in a real world setting yet either!

I LOVE this book!!! I have over 24yrs experience in the HIM world. This book is an easy read, plenty of examples and realistic, straight from the authority guidelines.

This is an excellent resource for my job. The guidelines are explained with practice questions. I always get the one with answers so I'll know if I'm right.