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Buck's The Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing, 2023/2024 Edition
- 1st Edition - December 5, 2022
- Author: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 7 4 1 1 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 7 4 4 8 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 7 4 4 7 - 2
Master advanced coding skills! Buck’s The Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing shows how to code for services such as medical visits, diagnostic testing and interpretati… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMaster advanced coding skills! Buck’s The Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing shows how to code for services such as medical visits, diagnostic testing and interpretation, treatments, surgeries, and anesthesia. Real-world cases (cleared of any patient identifiers) takes your coding proficiency a step further by providing hands-on practice with physician documentation. With this guide, you’ll learn to pull the right information from medical documents, select the right codes, determine the correct sequencing of those codes, and properly audit cases.
- Real-world patient cases (cleared of any patient identifiers) simulate the first year of coding on the job by using actual medical records, allowing you to practice coding with advanced material.
- UNIQUE! Evaluation and Management (E/M) audit forms include clear coding instructions to help reduce errors in determining the correct level of service.
- More than 150 full-color illustrations depict and clarify advanced coding concepts.
- Coverage of CPT E/M guidelines changes for office and other outpatient codes.
- From the Trenches boxes highlight the real-life experiences of professional medical coders and include photographs, quotes, practical tips, and advice.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- About the author
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Development of this edition
- Introduction
- List of physicians
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- 1. Evaluation and management services
- E/M review—the basics
- Hospital inpatient and observation care services
- Diagnosis coding
- Time to code!
- Hospital inpatient or observation discharge services
- Consultations, prolonged services, standby, and critical care services
- Cerebral hemorrhage
- Office and other outpatient services
- Hospital observation services
- Neonatal care services
- Neonatal critical care (NCC)
- Newborn diagnosis coding
- Preventive medicine services
- 2. Medicine
- Immune globulins/immunizations/vaccines/toxoids (90281-91311)
- Hydration, (96360, 96361); and therapeutic, prophylactic, and diagnostic injections and infusions (excludes chemotherapy and other highly complex drug or highly complex biologic agent administration) (96365-96379)
- Psychiatry
- Dialysis
- Noninvasive vascular diagnostic studies
- Cardioversion
- Ultrasound
- Codes reviewed elsewhere
- Central nervous system assessments/tests (E.G., neurocognitive, mental status, speech testing)
- Health behavior assessment and intervention
- Chemotherapy administration (96401-96549)
- Photodynamic therapy
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation (97010-97799)
- Medical nutrition therapy
- Osteopathic and chiropractic manipulative treatment
- Special services, procedures, and reports
- 3. Radiology
- Positions and placement
- Component coding
- Interventional radiology
- Contrast
- Facility specifics
- Diagnostic radiology
- CAT/CT scans
- Ultrasound
- Radiation oncology
- Nuclear medicine
- Interventional radiology
- 4. Pathology and laboratory
- Types of services
- Superbill/requisition form
- Organ- or disease-oriented panels
- Therapeutic drug assays
- Urinalysis, molecular pathology, and chemistry
- Hematology and coagulation
- Coagulation
- Immunohematology
- Immunology
- Body fluid
- Office testing
- Other laboratory and pathology services
- Evocative/suppression testing
- Transfusion medicine
- Microbiology
- Anatomic pathology
- Pathology clinical consultations
- Cytopathology and cytogenetic studies
- Surgical pathology
- Other procedures
- 5. Integumentary system
- Debridement
- Skin biopsy and skin tags
- Lesion excision
- Nails
- Repair (closure)
- Adjacent tissue transfers or rearrangements
- Skin grafts
- Other procedures
- Pressure ulcers
- Breast procedures
- 6. Cardiovascular system
- Evaluation and management services
- Coronary artery bypass grafts
- Pacemaker
- Stress tests
- Myocardial perfusion scan
- Cardiac catheterization
- Miscellaneous reports
- 7. Digestive system, hemic/lymphatic system, and mediastinum/diaphragm
- Digestive system
- Hemic/lymphatic system
- 8. Musculoskeletal system
- Arthrocentesis
- Fixation
- Excision
- Repair, revision, and reconstruction
- Sprains and strains
- Grafts (or implants)
- Fractures
- Amputation
- Arthroscopy
- 9. Respiratory system
- E/M services
- Medicine services
- Septoplasty and turbinates
- Thoracentesis
- Tracheostomy
- Endoscopic procedures
- 10. Urinary, male genital, and endocrine systems
- Urinary system
- Male genital system
- Endocrine system
- 11. Female genital system and maternity care/delivery
- Female genital system
- Maternity care/delivery
- 12. Nervous system
- Twist drill or burr holes
- Craniotomy
- Subdural hematoma
- Stealth surgery
- Cranioplasty
- Shunts
- Lumbar puncture
- Pump implantation
- Laminotomy and foraminotomies
- Spinal fusion
- Neurology and neuromuscular procedures
- 13. Eye and auditory systems
- Eye
- Ear
- 14. Anesthesia
- Introduction
- Anesthesia
- Summary
- Pain management
- Obstetrics
- Critical care
- Moderate (conscious) sedation
- Patient-controlled analgesia
- Figure credits
- Appendix A. CMS AB-01-144
- Appendix B. Online resources
- Appendix C. Abbreviations
- Appendix D. Answers to every other case
- Glossary
- Index
- No. of pages: 576
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 5, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323874113
- eBook ISBN: 9780323874489
- eBook ISBN: 9780323874472