When coders, medical staff, payers and health care professionals need more detailed information than the ICD-9-CM book provides, they turn to this comprehensive clinical, coding and documentation guide for over 11,000 ICD-9-CM codes and categories.

• Detailed, full-page anatomy illustrations plus hundreds of code-specific illustrations that have been integrated into the book—helps you interpret clinical notes to code with more specificity
• Plain English Descriptions of terminology found in the medical record to provide detailed clinical explanations of the ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes—helps you assign the most appropriate code
• Plain English Descriptions for syndromes linking definitions to the applicable ICD-9-CM codes—understand what symptoms and/or diseases are included in a syndrome
• Numerically arranged just like your ICD-9-CM—easy identification and look-up
• AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9-CM references—helps you validate code choices

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