Let’s Code It! 2024–2025 Code Edition

Medical coding brings clinical documentation and standardized code sets together—and learning to navigate that process takes practice. Let’s Code It! 2024–2025 Code Edition builds from coding fundamentals into diagnosis, procedure, and inpatient reporting, with chapters organized to help students work through the subject one system and coding task at a time.

From documentation to code selection

The opening sections introduce the languages of coding, clinical-documentation abstraction, and the coding process. Readers then study diagnosis reporting with ICD-10-CM, including conditions across body systems, inpatient diagnosis coding, and diagnostic coding capstones.

Explore physician and inpatient coding

Further sections cover CPT coding for physician services and outpatient procedures, modifiers, evaluation and management, anesthesia, surgery, radiology, pathology and laboratory services, and medicine. The book also addresses HCPCS Level II, DMEPOS and transportation, and inpatient reporting with ICD-10-PCS.

Practice, review, and connect the concepts

Learning outcomes and key terms orient readers at the start of chapters. “Coding Bites” highlight concepts and tips throughout the text, while chapter summaries and capstone chapters offer opportunities to revisit and bring together material from major sections.

Beyond the code sets

The final part turns to reimbursement, health care law, and ethics—subjects that place coding within the broader work of health care reporting. Taken together, the book provides a structured course text for students developing a foundation in medical coding and health information management.

Written by Shelley C. Safian and Mary A. Johnson, this edition is suited to learners seeking a broad, organized introduction to diagnosis and procedure coding.