The AMA's new partnership with Elsevier brings you a superior line of ICD-9-CM products written and designed by medical coding expert, educator and author Carol J. Buck. Our ICD-9-CM 2010 products can be used by coding professionals at all levels of expertise in every practice setting to increase coding speed, accuracy and understanding.
Code more quickly and effectively with the brand new ICD-9-CM Professional Edition codebook. Combining the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting (OCGR) with a format designed for coding excellence, this reference and all the features listed below help you easily access the information you need to stay up to date and ensure the most accurate billing for physician practice coding.
Complete features include:

• References to AHA's Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM.
• Identifies the exact issue of Coding Clinic, the official discussion of correct ICD-9-CM code assignment, which contains further information on particular codes.
• Current official code set with complete summary of code Changes - Provides a quick reference to all relevant 2010 changes; includes instructional notes, additional conventions and complete coding guidelines.
• As required by HIPAA for coding and reporting both outpatient and inpatient services.
• Intuitive symbols and color-coded bars highlight all Medicare code edits crucial to correct reimbursement.
• Valid Three-Digit Code Table.
• Know at a glance whether a three-digit code is valid for submitting on a claim.
• Color Fourth-and Fifth-Digit Requirement Symbols.
• Color-coded intuitive symbol identifies codes that require an additional fourth and/or fifth digit.
• Clinically Oriented Diagnosis Definitions and Illustrations.
• Ensure quick and correct code selection.
• Age and Sex Edits.
• Correctly identify codes that are restricted dependant upon age or sex of patient, lowering claim delays and denials.
• V code designation symbol alerts - Quickly recognize when V codes can be used only as primary or only as an additional diagnosis.
• "Unspecified" and "Other Specified" code alerts - Identifies which codes to use when the medical record documentation does not contain enough information to assign a more specific or unavailable code.
• Hundreds of Clinically Oriented Diagnosis Definitions and Illustrations.
• Ensure quick and correct code selection.