Carol J. Buck
Published: 2007-12-21
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Adding to what you learned in Step-by-Step Medical Coding, The Next Step, Advanced Medical Coding 2009 Edition helps you master advanced medical coding concepts and services such as medical visits, diagnostic testing and interpretation, treatments, surgeries, and anesthesia. Learning these advanced coding concepts is easy with Carol J. Buck's time-tested step-by-step method. This worktext will help you build a more in-depth understanding of physician-based medical coding to enhance critical thinking. It will help you master skills like pulling the right information from documents, selecting the right codes, and determining the correct sequencing of those codes. Patient cases in the text are actual medical records with personal patient details changed or removed, giving you real-world experience coding from physical documentation with advanced material.