Decoding the Codes: A Comprehensive Guide to Icd, Cpt & Hcpcs Coding Systems (The Hfma Healthcare Financial Management Series)

By Alex Toth

Written by healthcare consultant Alex Toth, Decoding the Codes is the only manual to encompass a thorough explanation of the content, format and utility of all of the coding systems for all clinical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786312467
• ISBN13: 9780786312467
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 555 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 1.3" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

excellent for the beginning coder

This book is very helpful for the person entering the medical coding profession, and it would be a good review for the professional.

I found the answer for the answer key

This is an excellent book, with much information. Alas, for such an in-depth workbook, it was totally aggravating not to have the answer key. Okay, all you out there, I called McGraw-Hill at 1-800-252-4729 and was then told to call a Jenny at 1-630-789-5305 (she works at McGraw-Hill) and request an answer key. She will send you one for free. Then make it known to Jenny, tactfully of course, how the answer key should have been included in order of the workbook.

Where is the key to the answers?

The book is excellent, with much valuable information, but it has no answers to the exercises--a serious omission. I bought the book to improve my coding skills, so was disappointed to find no answers to the coding examples presented. Had I known this beforehand, I would not have purchased the book, because without answers the exercises are not very helpful. Is a key to the answers available? I would really appreciate having one.

Where are the answer keys

It would be very helpful to have an answer key to the exercises. Are they available?

What good are the exercises without the answers.

I like the content of the book. But if I had known there were no answers, especially to the coding exercises, I would not have purchased this book. I purchase the book to learn and improve my coding skills but with no answers, what good is it to do the exercises? If you're really serious about learning, I feel this is a bad investment