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

Buck, Carol J.

 
9781416023739: The Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding: Professional Edition With Answers

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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

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