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The first thing is that I doubt if anyone can answer this question since you have not given an example of what you HAVE done in order to be judged if it is right or wrong.
Medical Coding has a list of various codes linked to specific conditions or treatments. The codes are grouped in catagories by the main first numbers. Learn, memorise the main number catogory codes then work on the secondary ones.
This way it is easier/faster to look up. However in either case it requires a lot of memory storage.
You really need to try to talk to your instructer to find out where you may be going wrong.Only she/he can tell you what they expect, and hopefully tell what it is they are looking for.
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