ICD-10-CM & ICD-10-PCS STUDY GUIDE: Master ICD-10-CM & ICD-10-PCS: 1,000 Practice Questions with Expert Rationales, 60 Inpatient Case Studies, and MS-DRG Essentials for CCS and CIC Certification

Most coding prep books hand you a list of codes and call it education.This one hands you a patient.Every question in this book starts where real inpatient coding starts — with a clinical situation. A 68-year-old septic patient on a ventilator. A STEMI patient who goes from the cath lab to emergency CABG. A newborn at 34 weeks with respiratory distress. A post-COVID patient with POTS and chronic fatigue whose U09.9 must always be last. You read the scenario, you make the call, and then you see exactly why the answer is what it is — guideline number, sequencing rule, and all.That is 1,000 of those moments, back to back, organized into 42 chapters that take you from your very first day with ICD-10-CM all the way through the final simulation exam.The foundation chapters don't waste your time. Excludes1 means the two conditions cannot coexist — period. Code First means the etiology goes before the manifestation — always. The inpatient probable diagnosis rule means 'likely sepsis' at discharge gets coded as sepsis — full stop. These rules are explained once, cleanly, and then reinforced through every question that follows until they become reflex.The body system chapters are where this book earns its reputation. Sixteen chapters — one per organ system — each packed with real codes, high-yield tables, combination code traps, FY2026 updates, and the specific sequencing rules that separate a passing score from a failing one. The questions that follow each chapter are not review — they are advancement. They take the concepts you just studied and put them into clinical scenarios that the real exam would be proud of.Then comes ICD-10-PCS. Eleven chapters on procedure coding that actually make sense. All 31 root operations explained through the one question that unlocks each one: what is the objective of this procedure? Excision removes part. Resection removes all. Destruction eradicates in place. Supplement reinforces. Replacement replaces. Fusion immobilizes. Once that logic clicks, every procedure becomes a classification problem rather than a memorization exercise.Sixty inpatient case studies — thirty medical, thirty surgical — give you the full picture. Real clinical summaries. Complete code sets. PCS codes decoded character by character. And a coding rationale that explains not just what to code but how an experienced coder thinks through the decision.Two full-length 150-question simulation exams close the book. Series A and Series B — 300 questions total, zero overlap, every domain covered, every answer explained.This is not a question bank. It is a curriculum. It is the structured, progressive, rationale-driven preparation that certification candidates have been asking for — and it is built entirely around the code year you will be tested on.FY2026 updates are not an afterthought here. They are woven throughout: N18.31 and N18.32 for CKD Stage 3a and 3b. I1A.0 for treatment-resistant hypertension. G90.3 for POTS. Z59.81 for transportation insecurity. Z59.01 and Z59.02 for sheltered and unsheltered homelessness. M54.51 for vertebrogenic low back pain. Section X expansions for CAR-T therapies, concentrated bone marrow aspirate, AI-assisted organ assessment, and transcatheter valve replacement. Every code that is new in FY2025 that matters for the exam is here — explained, contextualized, and tested.You will not find filler questions in this book. You will not find answers without explanations. You will not find a chapter that stops short of the hard material because it was easier to leave it out.What you will find is 1,000 questions that make you better at this — one at a time, from the first convention to the final exam.Pick it up when you are ready to stop guessing and start knowing. Read more