Excludes1 and Excludes2, the 7th character, the global package, visit levels and modifiers. In your notes it's a wall of text. Here every concept gets its own page: the drawing and what to remember. 61 drawn pages.
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Every concept gets its own page: the drawing that shows you how it's done and the boxes with what you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 8 parts and 61 topics.
You've read the Excludes1 and Excludes2 notes three times. You close your notes...
...and you can't remember which one lets you report both codes. It was just one line after another.
Here Excludes1 and Excludes2 are two drawings side by side, with the rule in a box under each one and the two codes that can or can't go together.
And on the pages next to it, every convention gets its own: the main term in the index, NEC and NOS, the placeholder X, the 7th character and "code also."
First you understand why it works that way. Then the order stays with you on its own.
The map before the first note, reading the note, index and tabular list, the guidelines that change the answer, the procedure book, office visit levels, modifiers and bundling, and exam-day review: 61 drawn pages
Picture this:
Instead of rereading half a page about the global surgical package without being able to see it...
...you open the page and find the 0, 10 and 90-day periods drawn as a timeline, with the routine follow-up that's already paid inside each one.
And the 7th character, sequela, Z codes, the three columns of medical decision making and modifiers turn into drawings and tables you can read at a glance.
You stop repeating and start understanding.
That's exactly what Medical Coding: From Chart to Code does. 8 parts and 61 drawn topics, and at the end the 5 steps on one note, the 30-second check and your path on one printable page.
Because once you see the rule drawn, the order stays.
The three code books and what each one does, the 5-step path in one picture, why the code boxes say #####, what a diagnosis code and a procedure code look like, outpatient vs. inpatient rules and the exam clock.
Reading the whole note first, word parts, directions and body planes, the four things to pull, confirmed vs. probable vs. rule out, symptoms that belong to the diagnosis, the reason for the visit and one pen-mark system.
The main term, parentheses and square brackets, why you never stop at the index, Includes, Excludes1 and Excludes2, code first and code also, NEC and NOS, the placeholder X, the 7th character and initial, subsequent, sequela.
“With” means linked, combination codes, left, right and both, sequela, Z codes, external cause codes, hypertension and diabetes, and what to do when the note and the guideline disagree.
Section guidelines first, four ways into the procedure index, the semicolon rule, the margin symbols, the global surgical package, skin lesions and repairs in centimeters, radiology and lab, and anesthesia.
New or established patient, the two ways to pick a level, the three columns of medical decision making (problems, data and risk) and picking by time.
What a modifier tells the payer, a separate visit on the same day, sides of the body, bundled vs. separate, reduced, repeated and split services, and when no modifier is the right answer.
The 5 steps on one note start to finish, reading the answer choices first, mark-skip-come-back, tabbing your books, the most frequent slips, the 30-second check and a one-page review.
At the end of the book: The 5 steps on one note, start to finish, and your path on one printable page.
40 invented visit and procedure notes to mark up with a pen, so you practice the 5 steps before you ever open your code books.
The most frequent coding slips, each with its own page and the quick check that catches it before you choose an answer.
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The 5 steps in order, so the index conventions and guidelines stop being forty loose rules. Keep your code books open right next to it.
A full review in the same order every time, from reading the note to the 30-second check, plus a one-page review to print. Also for a second try.
A quick review for your desk: rule out vs. confirmed, the global package, visit levels and when no modifier is the right answer.
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You get Medical Coding: From Chart to Code as a high-resolution PDF by email, at the address you enter at checkout, to read on your phone or print. The two bonus books also come as PDFs by email: The Red-Pen Note Drills (40 invented notes to practice the 5 steps) and The Second-Look Pages (the most frequent coding slips, each on its own page, for a quick review).
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For anyone in the U.S. studying for a medical coding certification exam on their own, taking it a second time, or already coding and wanting a visual review. It follows U.S. outpatient coding: ICD-10-CM plus the procedure code book your exam uses. You don't need to know coding first: Part I starts with the three code books. Check the table of contents above.
The method is checked against the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, published by CMS and NCHS (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), and it points you to the guidelines printed at the start of each section of your current-year procedure code book. Codes change every year; that's why the book teaches the steps and leaves the code boxes as #####, so it works with your current books. All charts are invented examples.
No, it isn't official, and it doesn't reproduce code lists or code descriptions. The code boxes are printed as ##### on purpose: you look each code up in your own books, which is the same move the exam asks for.
No. It's study and review material, not a course: no certificate, no CEUs, no exam voucher. If you already took a course, this gives you the piece it often leaves out: one fixed order for every note, with each rule drawn on its own page, so you never start a question from scratch. It doesn't replace your current code books, your employer's policies or payer rules.
No. The 40 notes in The Red-Pen Note Drills are invented and written for this book. They aren't official exam questions: they're for practicing the 5 steps.
You can print it at home or at a print shop. It's for studying and reviewing: only the code books your exam allows go into the exam room. Check your exam's rules before you write in your books.
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You don't have to reread the same page hoping this time it sticks.
You don't have to memorize guidelines you can't picture.
And you definitely don't have to walk into the exam not knowing where to start.
One last thing before you decide: you already have the code books. What's missing is the order. Here it's 5 steps, 61 drawn pages and 2 bonus books, as a PDF by email.
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