The Manual

Twenty-four chapters.
One method.

Five parts, weight-matched to the exam blueprint, written in a single voice. Method-first throughout: the rule, the citation, the worked logic, and the trap. Numbers change on exam day; the method doesn't.

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Part 1 — The Foundations

The credential and the exam, the language of medicine, anatomy by system, the three books and how to move through them, and compliance. The ground you stand on.

Part 2 — Diagnosis (ICD-10-CM)

Structure and conventions, the Official Guidelines in two passes, and applied diagnosis coding through the tables — Excludes1, the 'with' convention, sequencing, and the traps.

Part 3 — The Surgical Series (CPT)

The largest part of the exam, taught series by series — 10000 through 60000 — with the surgical package, modifiers, and the rules that decide the code.

Part 4 — The Service Chapters

Evaluation & Management on the 2021+ framework, Anesthesia, Radiology, Pathology & Laboratory, Medicine, and HCPCS Level II with its modifiers.

Part 5 — The Method

The case-dissection method and exam-day craft — navigation, time, and the After-Action Loop that turns a score into a study plan.

How it teaches

Rule. Citation. Worked logic. Trap.

Each concept is built the same way: the rule stated plainly, cited by guideline or section; the logic worked through on a realistic example; and "The Trap" — the mistake the exam is hoping you'll make. Recurring Navigator notes show the exact book move, so the manual trains the same open-book skill the exam scores.

No NFPA, AMA, AAPC, or ICD-10-CM text is reproduced anywhere in the manual. Every reference is paraphrased and cited by section. You bring the current code books; we train you to use them.

Learn the method. Prove it on the clock.

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Twenty-four chapters.One method.