Physician Icd-9-Cm 2004

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 the user's needs. Stay up to date each year on the new ICD-9-CM code changes that will impact code accuracy and claims submission. Key Features: This essential resource offers a host of convenient and easy-to-use features: Complete Official Coding Guidelines as required by HIPAA. Helps the user stay compliant. New - AHA's Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM references. Identifies the exact issue of Coding Clinic that contains further information on that code. New - Completely revised guidelines for 2004. 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 developmen