ICD-10 Clinic Intermediate - Book 3: Pharmacology for Coders

You are not being asked to become a pharmacist. You are being asked to read a medication list the way a coder reads it: as evidence about what was treated. This book covers drug classes and the conditions behind them, the long-term drug use codes, and the three ways a drug itself becomes the diagnosis: adverse effect, poisoning and underdosing.

The ten chapters:

1. Why coders read drug charts

2. Names and classes

3. Class to condition

4. Evidence of treatment

5. The Z79 family

6. When a drug proves nothing

7. Adverse effect

8. Poisoning

9. Underdosing

10. The Table of Drugs and Chemicals

Twenty-five A4 pages in full colour, with a two-page Coding Lab that works a full record step by step, a page of the eight pitfalls that cost the most marks, fifteen practice questions with a worked answer for every one, and a glossary.

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.