ICD-10 Clinic - Book 1: What Coding Really Is

Start here. Before you choose a single code, you need to know what a code actually is, why hospitals cannot run without them, and what a coder is and is not allowed to do. This book answers all of it in plain language: what a statistical classification system does, where coded data travels once it leaves the coding office, why the health record is the only source a code may come from, and where ICD came from over the last 130 years. It then takes an ICD-10-CM code apart character by character, shows you the two halves of the code book, and walks you through your first two guided lookups. Fifteen exercises with full answers, and a glossary of the seventeen words you need before Book 2.

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.