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Stay up-to-date with the most recent ICD-9-CM code changes. This comprehensive resource is organized to help improve coding accuracy and efficiency. Includes dictionary-style headings, color tabs and legends on each page. Complete features -Current official code set with complete summary of code Changes - Provides a quick reference to all relevant 2007 changes; includes instructional notes, additional conventions and complete coding guidelines -Color fourth- and fifth-digit alert symbols in index and tabular Valid three-digit list - Identifies when an additional digit is not available for a condition or disease -Age and sex edits - Correctly identify codes that are restricted dependant upon age or sex of patient, lowering claim delays and denials -V code designation symbol alerts - Quickly recognize when V codes can be used only as primary or only as an additional diagnosis -"Unspecified" and "Other Specified" code alerts - Identifies which codes to use when the medical record documentation does not contain enough information to assign a more specific or unavailable code