The Next Step, Advanced Medical Coding; A Worktext

by Buck

• ISBN13: 9780721602127
• ISBN10: 0721602126
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781416023210
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-02
• Publisher: Saunders
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Summary

This book focuses on physician and outpatient coding for medical visits, diagnostic testing and interpretation, surgeries, anesthesia, and all physician treatments and services. Everything previously learned in the basic Step text is brought together in this book to simulate the professional coding experience. It focuses on patient cases, some with multiple records or reports, requiring readers to differentiate between coding a particular diagnosis or procedure based on a visit to a doctor's office versus an outpatient procedure at a hospital or similar facility. Instructor resources are available; please contact your Elsevier sales representative for details. Best-selling coding author Carol Buck has a Master's degree in adult education and has been teaching in medical secretarial programs for 25 years. Actual patient cases give examples in every section of the text, cases with multiple reports provide different levels of difficulty, reflecting concrete, real-world situations that coders encounter on the job. Worktext format allows users to record all answers to the cases directly in the text. E/M Audit forms developed by the author to determine the correct E/M codes are provided, with extra forms included in Appendix A for use with other cases. From the Trenches feature highlights a different real-life medical coding practitioner in each chapter, with photographs throughout the chapter alongside practical advice & motivational quotes.

Table of Contents

Evaluation and Management (E/M) Services

Medicine

Radiology

Pathology and Laboratory

Integumentary System

Cardiovascular System

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

Musculoskeletal System

Respiratory System

Male Genital System and Endocrine System

Female Genital System and Maternity Care/Delivery

Nervous System

Eye/Ocular Adnexa and Auditory System

Anesthesia

E/M Audit Forms

CMS AB-01-44

ICD-9-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting

Abbreviations

Answers (w/o rationale)

List of Physicians

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