ICD-10 Clinic Advanced - Book 14: Assigning a DRG

The four-step path from a finished record to a group, worked by hand: the principal diagnosis and the category, the procedure question, the complication question, and reading the weight. Then the four ways a case ends in the wrong group, each with a full worked example, and a habit for checking your own group before you release the record. Built on the code set rules taught in the twelve books before it.

The ten chapters:

1. Before you group

2. Step 1: principal diagnosis to category

3. Step 2: the procedure question

4. Step 3: the complication question

5. Step 4: reading the weight

6. A full case, end to end

7. The principal diagnosis that was guessed

8. The procedure that was left off

9. The secondary that was there all along

10. Checking your own group

Twenty-five A4 pages in full colour. Every chapter closes with its rule stated in a single line, so you can revise the whole book from the rules alone. Then a two-page Coding Lab working full records 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.

Grouping systems differ between countries and between payers, so the numbers used here are worked examples chosen to make the arithmetic clear. The method is the same everywhere. Always use your own hospital's current weights and rates for real work. Instant PDF download. By M.R. Sterling.