You Code It! Abstracting Case Studies Practicum - Softcover

Safian, Shelley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073374520 ISBN 13: 9780073374529

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2011

Synopsis

You Code It! Abstracting Case Studies Practicum provides extensive coding practice for students to expand their training and experience. The case studies and patient records provide exercises and sample patient records for more than 25 specialties for focused coding practice. In addition, students can use this book for preparation to sit for a national certification exam or going to a job interview. This workbook provides extensive, hands-on practice for learning to code. The cases in this book are real patient charts (redacted) from physicians’ offices and hospitals in different parts of the country. It is a student-friendly workbook presenting case studies for the practice of abstracting health care professionals’ documentation and accurately translating the facts into the best, most accurate codes.

About this title

About the Author

Shelley C. Safian
Dr. Shelley C. Safian has been teaching Health Care Administration, Health
Information Management, and Medical Billing and Coding, both onsite and online, for
more than 15 years.
Safian writes a monthly Q&A column for the online publication JustCoding and
writes several articles each year on various aspects of coding. In addition, she is the
author of six textbooks. Her newest book, Foundations of Health Care Administration,
was released January 2014.
Safian is in her fourth year as the chair of the continuing education committee for
FHIMA (Florida Health Information Management Association). In the past, she has
served on several committees and practice councils on the national, state, and local
levels of the American Health Information Management Association.
She is a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA), a Certified
Coding Specialist (CCS-P), a Certified Professional Coder (CPC-H, CPC-I), and an
ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0073374520
• ISBN 13: 9780073374529
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 528