The Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding, Professional Edition with Answers - Softcover

Buck MS CPC CCS-P, Carol J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416023739 ISBN 13: 9781416023739

Publisher: Saunders, 2006

Synopsis

This book focuses on medical coding services such as medical visits, diagnostic testing and interpretation, treatments, surgeries, and anesthesia. This text picks up where Step-by-Step Medical Coding leaves off by reviewing more advanced coding concepts with the same step-by-step method. It simulates the professional coding experience, providing a more in-depth understanding of physician-based medical coding to enhance critical thinking and help readers pull the right information from documents, select the right codes, and determine the correct sequencing of those codes.

• Contains actual patient cases to provide real-world examples for learning
• Delivered in a "worktext" format for more efficient studying
• Provides information on E/M audit forms to help determine E/M codes
• From the Trenches section highlights a different real-life medical coding practitioner in each chapter to create a sense of community within the coding profession and offer practical advice and motivational comments
• Includes answers to case questions as a helpful self-study tool

About this title

Book Description

Master the essentials of advanced medical coding

About the Author

Carol J. Buck, MS,CPC, Program Director (Retired), Medical Secretarial Programs, Northwest Technical College, East Grand Forks, MN

Edition details

• Publisher: Saunders
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416023739
• ISBN 13: 9781416023739
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 736