Physician Icd-9-Cm 2003: Color-Coded Illustrated (AMA PHYSICIAN ICD-9-CM)

This best selling code book offers a complete and comprehensible approach to medical diagnosis coding. Color-coded interior, intuitive symbols and clinically-oriented illustrations are designed to meet your needs. Stay up to date each year on the new ICD-9-CM code changes that will impact code accuracy and claims submission. Complete Official Coding Guidelines as required by HIPAA. Helps you stay compliant. Color-Coded Tabular. Symbols, just like the ones found in CPT, identify new, revised and deleted codes and text, and color-coded bars highlight unspecified, nonspecific, and manifestation coding situations. Emailed Delivered Special Reports. Stay current on important developments and code changes. Customers who provide an e-mail address will receive Special Reports via e-mail. Color Fourth- and Fifth-Digit Symbols in Index and Tabular. Color-coded intuitive symbol identifies codes that require an additional fourth and/or fifth digit. Hundreds of Clinically-Oriented Diagnosis Definitions and Illustrations. Ensure quick and correct code selection. Age and Sex Edits. Identifies codes that are restricted dependent upon age or sex of patient. QuickFlip Color-Coded Tabs. Helps the user find the right code section quickly and easily. Valid Three-Digit Category List. Know at a glance whether a three-digit code is valid for submitting on claim. New and Revised Codes Dated. A separate appendix lists all of the new and revised codes and the date the codes were most recently changed.