THE BLUEPRINT GUIDELINES VAULT · VOLUME I

The Official ICD-10-CM Guidelines, decoded through the auditor’s lens.

For the inpatient medical coder who is done guessing at sequencing.

This is the auditor’s-lens treatment of the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting — written by Coach Tash, former Region A RAC auditor for the federal government, with consulting experience across 33 of the 50 United States at large Trauma 1 and Trauma 2 facilities.

Inside this 35-page premium reference book:

💎 15 heavy hitter inpatient guidelines — every guideline an inpatient coder must own, decoded character by character

💎 Every guideline cited to the official section — verify against your own book in seconds

💎 The auditor’s-lens commentary — what RAC auditors actually look for, what gets flagged, what gets recouped

💎 Real-world examples with actual codes — see the guideline applied to a real chart

💎 The audit trap named out loud — where most coders get burned, and how to avoid it

💎 Compliant queries written out for every guideline — copy-and-paste language to use on the job

You no longer code from instinct. You no longer guess at sequencing. You code through the auditor’s lens.

I’ll see you at the top. The bottom is way too crowded. 💎

— Coach Tash

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