Item H5003 ISBN NA $189.00 (MRSP) $169.95 The 2010 Home Care Resource Guide & Answer Book guides you chapter-by-chapter through ICD-9-CM coding, giving disease process, medical terms, tips, tricks and tools to help all levels of home health coders. Organized into chapters like an ICD-9-CM book, it is packed with decision trees and other tools within the text sharpen your critical thinking skills and improve your understanding of how and why to code a certain way to gain appropriate reimbursement and develop your coding skills.

Ensure your agency submits accurate diagnosis coding for correct reimbursement while developing you and your staff’s coding skills and competencies. Use this guide to:

• Increase accurate assignment of primary and secondary diagnosis codes

• Improve understanding of sequencing and how that impacts correct coding and reimbursement

• Simplify the code assignment process using Volume 1 and Volume 2 of ICD-9-CM

• Boost your knowledge and understanding of common home care conditions

• Clarify complex issues regarding OASIS diagnosis fields

A natural companion to your ICD-9-CM book, it is organized along ICD-9 chapters and gives you clinical information, definitions and tips so you understand what a code means and why to code it. This resource is great as a reference for experienced coders or as a learning tool for beginning coders.

Board of Medical Specialty Coding (BMSC) endorsed, the Home Care Resource Guide and Answer Book is an educational resource for home health agency coding professionals and a BMSC-approved professional review and study resource for the Home Care Coding Specialist-Diagnosis (HCS-D) Certification Exam!

National educator Sharon Molinari, RN, HCS-D, COS-C, has edited and honed the information in this book with an eye on accuracy and easy understanding.

Master the rationale behind frequently billed diagnosis codes, sharpen your coding skills and prepare for the HCS-D exam with practice exercises, challenging scenarios, must-know medical terminology and more!