Buck's 2025 ICD-10-PCS - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 1st Edition

by Elsevier Inc and Jackie Koesterman, CPC

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

ISBN: 9780443261565

Publication Date: 01-02-2025

Page Count: 944

Imprint: Elsevier

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Choose the book designed by coders for coders! Buck's 2025 ICD-10-PCS includes all the ICD-10-PCS codes you need to ensure the most accurate billing and reimbursement for inpatient medical procedures. As coders need extensive knowledge to code with ICD-10-PCS — and to choose from the thousands of possible codes — this edition provides colorful anatomy plates (including Netter’s Anatomy illustrations) and tables organized to simplify the process of choosing and building procedure codes. It comes with durable spiral binding and includes a companion website with the latest coding updates.

Key Features
- ICD-10-PCS Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting (OGCR) provide easier reference to coding rules when they are needed most
- Convenient Guide to the 2025 Updates in the front of the book lists all new, revised, and deleted codes, providing at-a-glance lookup of the coding changes
- Unique! Full-color anatomy plates (including Netter’s Anatomy art) are included in the front of the book to help you understand complex anatomic information and how it may affect choosing codes
- American Hospital Association's Coding Clinic^® citations include official ICD-10-PCS coding advice relating to specific codes and their usage
- Hospital Acquired Condition (HAC) symbol notes procedures related to HACs as outlined in the MS-DRG
- Symbols for Non-Covered and Limited-Coverage Procedures indicate related material outlined in the Definitions of Medicare Code Edits
- Sex edits from the Definition of Medicare Code Edits denote codes that are used only with patients of a specific sex
- Non-Operating Room Procedure symbols identify procedures that do and do not affect MS-DRG assignment
- Combinations symbol identifies procedures that can affect MS-DRG assignment
- Online Appendix: Procedure Combination Table displays each procedure cluster and the corresponding DRG, as well as a few procedure combinations that are designated as non-OR
Contents

INTRODUCTION
TABLES
INDEX
APPENDIX A – Definitions
APPENDIX B – Body Part Key
APPENDIX C – Device Key
APPENDIX D – Substance Key
APPENDIX E – Device Aggregation Table
APPENDIX F – Procedure Combinations Table on codingupdates.com
Authors

Elsevier Inc and Jackie Koesterman, CPC, Coding and Reimbursement Specialist, JDK Medical Coding EDU, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
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