ICD-10 Clinic Intermediate - Book 2: Conventions in Practice

The conventions are the grammar of the code book. In the Intro series you met them. Here you use them at speed on records that fight back. This book covers where a note lives and how far it reaches, the two kinds of Excludes, the words and and with, code also, NEC against NOS, default codes, the placeholder X, and the 7th character.

The ten chapters:

1. Where a note lives

2. Includes and inclusion terms

3. Excludes1: never together

4. Excludes2: both may be coded

5. The word with

6. Code also

7. NEC and NOS

8. Default codes

9. The placeholder X

10. The 7th character

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.