Hi Judy,
I will repost my question from Module IV to this location and maybe you can answer it since you just took your CCS.
Does anyone know if we need the coding version of ICD-10-CM that lists MCCs and CCs in it for the CCS exam?
Thank you.
Wendy
p.s. In Pietro Ingrande's DRG 3-hour session, he mentions this is important, but is it important enough to go out and buy another ICD-CM coding book when the updates will take effect October 1, 2017, and my book is 2017 but not the version with the MCC and CC in it...I don't want to take the CCS exam with a book that won't have what I need.
By the way, Pietro's 3-hour DRG class is HIGHLY recommended if that is the only thing you need to study for your CCS and don't need his whole 6-week prep.
Yes, you absolutely need the version that shows the CC and MCC, sometimes it is listed as a hospital version. Look around and see if you can borrow one for the CCS exam if you don't have one. I am in Oklahoma, if you happen to be in the state, I would let you borrow mine. Your state AHIMA group might accidentally have one you could borrow. You will have questions like, patient comes with whatever disease, which of the 4 choices will change the DRG the most. The only way to answer that is to have the designations of the CC and MCC.
Thanks for the information, Judy! Wendy