ICD-10 Clinic - Book 7: Bones and Connective Tissue

One chapter, and one decision running underneath all of it: is this a current injury, or a long-standing condition? Get that wrong and you are in the wrong chapter before you start. This book covers site and laterality across the musculoskeletal chapter, when to use individual site codes and when a multiple sites code is correct, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, the low back pain code that was retired and what replaced it, and osteoporosis with and without a current fracture, including the rule that surprises everyone about a minor fall. It also compares the two 7th character sets side by side and explains why aftercare Z codes are never used for injuries. Fifteen exercises with worked answers.

Twenty-five A4 pages, in full colour. Written in short sentences and plain English, for readers whose first language is not English and clearer for everyone else because of it.

Every ICD-10-CM code in this book was verified against the official 2026 code set before the file was made. Instant PDF download. By M.R. Sterling.