Streamline Diagnosis Coding with Buck’s 2024 ICD-10-CM for Physicians

Selecting the right diagnosis codes has never been easier with Buck’s 2024 ICD-10-CM for Physicians. This comprehensive, full-color manual is designed by coders for coders, ensuring you learn the most accurate billing and reimbursement codes for medical services provided in physicians’ offices and outpatient settings.

Elevate Your Coding Skills with Detailed Anatomy Plates

With extensive knowledge required to code with ICD-10-CM and choose from thousands of possible codes, this edition makes it easier with:

• Colorful anatomy plates, including Netters Anatomy illustrations, to help you understand anatomy and its impact on code choices.
• Durable spiral binding for easy reference.
• A companion website with the latest coding updates, ensuring you stay current.

Stay Up-to-Date with the Latest Coding Changes

Get quick access to new, revised, and deleted codes with the At-a-glance Guide to the 2024 ICD-10-CM Updates in the front of the book.

Unparalleled Coding Guidance

Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting (OGCRs) are listed in full in the Introduction, at the beginning of each chapter, and integrated within the code set, providing effortless reference to coding rules when you need them most.

Enhance Your Coding Experience

Take advantage of:

• Full-color anatomy plates (including Netters Anatomy art) in a separate section for easy reference, cross-referenced within the Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries.
• American Hospital Association’s Coding Clinic citations, providing official ICD-10-CM coding advice relating to specific codes and their usage.
• Over 190 illustrations, offering visual orientation and enhancing understanding of specific coding situations.
• Items throughout the Tabular List, ensuring accurate coding and providing additional information on common diseases and conditions.
• Additional elements within specific codes, defining terms and adding coding instructions relating to difficult terminology, diseases, and conditions, or coding in a specific category.
• Symbols and highlights drawing attention to codes that may require special consideration before coding.

Key Features

This comprehensive manual includes:

• New, revised, and deleted codes, ensuring you’re always up-to-date.
• Unacceptable Principle Diagnosis codes, Codes that call for the use of additional character(s), Includes, Excludes 1 and Excludes 2, and Use Additional/Code First and Code Also.
• Placeholder X symbol, reminding you to assign placeholder X for codes less than 6 characters that require a 7th character.
• Manifestation code symbol, identifying conditions for which it’s important to record both the etiology and the symptom of the disease.
• HCC symbol, indicating diagnoses in the Tabular List associated with Hierarchical Condition Categories.
• Age and Sex edits from the Definition of Medicare Code Edits, ensuring accuracy by denoting codes used only with patients of a specific age or sex.

Get the Latest 2024 Official Code Set

This updated edition reflects the latest ICD-10 codes needed for diagnosis coding, ensuring you stay current and compliant.

Product Details:

• Publisher: Elsevier
• 1st edition (September 25, 2023)
• Language: English
• Spiral-bound: 1656 pages
• ISBN-10: 0443111820
• ISBN-13: 978-0443111822