ICD-10 Clinic - Book 3: Steps and Sequencing

Knowing the conventions is not the same as knowing what to do first. This book gives you the working process, from the first read of a record to a finished, ordered list of codes. It defines the principal diagnosis in the official wording and takes the definition apart phrase by phrase, explains the first-listed diagnosis used in clinics, and gives you the five-part test that decides which other conditions get reported. It also handles the rule beginners find strangest: why an uncertain diagnosis is coded in a hospital and not coded in a clinic. Part two opens ICD-10-PCS and builds a real seven-character procedure code from a table, one character at a time. 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.