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The Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing, 2014 Edition

  • 1st Edition - June 12, 2013
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Carol J. Buck
  • Language: English

Learning advanced medical coding is easy with Carol J. Buck's proven, step-by-step method! The Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing, 2014 Edition helps you master co… Read more

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Learning advanced medical coding is easy with Carol J. Buck's proven, step-by-step method! The Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing, 2014 Edition helps you master coding skills for services such as medical visits, diagnostic testing and interpretation, treatments, surgeries, and anesthesia. Patient cases reflect actual medical records and give you real-world experience with advanced coding. Enhance your decision-making skills and learn to confidently pull the right information from documents, select the right codes, determine the correct sequencing of those codes, properly audit cases, and prepare for the transition to ICD-10 with the help of coding author and educator Carol J. Buck!

Key features

  • Realistic patient cases
  • simulate the professional coding experience by using actual medical records (with personal patient details changed or removed), allowing you to practice coding with advanced material.
  • Dual coding addresses the transition to ICD-10 by providing coding answers for both ICD-9 and ICD-10.
  • UNIQUE! Evaluation and Management (E/M) Audit Forms, developed to determine the correct E/M codes, simplify the coding process and help to ensure accuracy.
  • Auditing cases prepare you to assign correct codes to complicated records, as well as audit records for accuracy.
  • From the Trenches boxes highlight the experiences of real-life medical coders and provide practical tips, advice, and encouragement.
  • UNIQUE! Netter anatomy plates in each chapter help you understand anatomy and how it affects coding.
  • More than 160 full-color illustrations depict and clarify advanced concepts.

Table of contents

1. Evaluation and Management (E/M) Services

2. Medicine

3. Radiology

4. Pathology and Laboratory

5. Integumentary System

6. Cardiovascular System

7. Digestive System, Hemic/Lymphatic System, and Mediastinum/Diaphragm

8. Musculoskeletal System

9. Respiratory System

10. Urinary, Male Genital, and Endocrine Systems

11. Female Genital System and Maternity Care/Delivery

12. Nervous System

13. Eye and Auditory Systems

14. Anesthesia
Appendix A: E/M Audit Forms
Appendix B: CMS AB-01-44
Appendix C: Resources
Appendix D: Abbreviations
Appendix E: Answers to every other case

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 12, 2013
  • Language: English

About the author

CB

Carol J. Buck

Affiliations and expertise
Former Program Director, Medical Secretarial Programs, Northwest Technical College, East Grand Forks, MN