The ICD-10-CM 2027: The Complete Official Codebook is your essential resource for health care professionals seeking up-to-date, accurate ICD-10-CM codes for diagnostic coding accuracy. Complete with official guidelines and the newest updated code set for the 2027 calendar year, this codebook is designed to make the challenge of accurate coding easier with intuitive navigation, clear organization and supplementary educational content.

Key highlights include:

• Coding Clarity & Compliance: Access ICD-10-CM coding guidance to help with code selection and guideline understanding, support accurate documentation, assist in determining insurance coverage and facilitate appropriate reimbursement.
• Comprehensive Organization: Cover all 22 chapters in the Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries, organized for fast, accurate code lookup, with supplementary appendixes that offer expanded coding guidance and reference tables.
• Efficient Navigation: Explore the new chapter structure, improved by implementing streamlined icon placements, and full color illustrations to make coding selections quicker and more accurate.
• Up-to-Date Content: Easily access new, revised and deleted codes in Chapter 22, including highlights on the latest guidelines and specialty-specific changes from essential U-codes to those covering COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) and more.

The ICD-10-CM 2027: The Complete Official Codebook offers coding health care professionals a thoroughly organized and visually enhanced resource, enabling compliance, and precise diagnostic coding so health care professionals can excel in today’s dynamic health care environment.

FEATURES

The ICD-10-CM 2027: The Complete Official Codebook includes thousands of codes, guidelines and various features, including:

• Full List of Code Changes: Access conversion tables and specialty updates for new, revised and deleted codes.
• QPP Symbol in Tabular Section: Identify diagnosis codes related to Quality Payment Program (QPP) measures under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).
• Coding Tips: Explore updated tips and advice specifically for physicians and medical coders in outpatient settings.
• Chapter 22 Coverage: Highlights U-codes and specific COVID-19 diagnostic codes.
• Icon & Visual Alerts: Navigate user-friendly placement and enhanced color-coding to show coding notes, character requirements, CMS Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC), Medicare Code Edits (MCEs), manifestation codes and unspecified codes.
• Placeholder X Alert: Identify codes that require a seventh-character extension by the clear use of the “placeholder X” signifier, for more accurate coding.
• Definitions and Illustrations: Access new and updated definitions, diagrams and visual aids to help in identifying complex diagnoses and increase precision during the code assigning process.
• Coding Guideline Explanations and Examples: Find helpful examples at the beginning of each chapter, as well as detailed application instructions to support a more seamless and precise coding process.
• Muscle/Tendon Translation Table: Learn how to simplify coding for conditions affecting muscles and tendons.
• Index of Diseases and Injuries: Explore the comprehensive index that enables quick searches in all 22 chapters.
• Appendices: Enhance knowledge on best practices, risk adjustment, pharmacology and coding for Z-codes.