Download or read book The Next Step written by Carol J. Buck and published by W B Saunders Company. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning advanced medical coding concepts is easy with Carol J. Buck's proven, step-by-step method! The Next Step, Advanced Medical Coding 2011 Edition provides an in-depth understanding of physician-based medical coding and coding services such as medical visits, diagnostic testing and interpretation, treatments, surgeries, and anesthesia. Patient cases reflect actual medical records -- with personal details changed or removed -- and give you real-world experience coding from physical documentation with advanced material. Enhance your clinical decision-making skills and learn to confidently pull the right information from documents, select the right codes, determine the correct sequencing of those codes, and prepare for the 2013 transition to ICD-10-CM with the help of Carol J. Buck! Carol J. Buck's proven step-by-step approach guides you through difficult concepts in the most direct, straightforward manner to ensure complete understanding. Realistic coding experience, based on actual patient cases, familiarizes you with real-world situations you'll encounter in practice. Dual Coding prepares you for the switch to ICD-10 by accompanying all ICD-9 answers with corresponding codes from ICD-10-CM. From the Trenches boxes in each chapter highlight real-life medical coders and provide practical advice and motivation. Full-color design makes advanced concepts more accessible and visually engaging. UNIQUE! Evaluation and Management (E/M) Audit Forms, developed to determine the correct E/M codes, simplify the coding process and help you ensure accuracy. Updated content reflects the latest coding developments so you can practice with the most current information available.
Download or read book Buck s The Next Step Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing 2021 2022 Edition written by Elsevier and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 students 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. From the Trenches boxes highlight the real-life experiences of professional medical coders and include photographs, quotes, practical tips, and advice. NEW! Coding updates include the latest information available, including 2022 code updates when released. NEW! Coverage of CPT E/M guidelines changes for office and other outpatient codes.
Download or read book Buck s The Next Step Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing 2023 2024 Edition E Book written by Elsevier and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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. NEW! Coding updates include the latest information available, including 2024 code updates when released.
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Download or read book Buck s The Next Step Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing 2019 2020 Edition E Book written by Elsevier and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2018-11-03 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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! From the Trenches boxes highlight the real-life experiences of professional medical coders and include photographs, quotes, practical tips, and advice. UNIQUE! Evaluation and Management (E/M) audit forms include clear coding instructions to help reduce errors in determining the correct level of service. Over 170 full-color illustrations depict and clarify advanced coding concepts.
Download or read book The Next Step Advanced Medical Coding written by Carol J. Buck and published by Saunders. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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Download or read book The Next Step for Advanced Medical Coding written by Carol J. Buck and published by Saunders. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Next Step Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing 2015 Edition E Book written by Carol J. Buck and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving on to advanced medical coding is easy with Carol J. Buck's proven, step-by-step method! The Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing, 2015 Edition helps you master coding skills for services such as medical visits, diagnostic testing and interpretation, treatments, surgeries, and anesthesia. Real-world patient cases give you hands-on practice with advanced, physician-based coding. Enhance your decision-making skills and learn to confidently pull the right information from medical 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 Buck! Dual coding addresses the transition to ICD-10 by providing practice as well as 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. UNIQUE! Netter anatomy illustrations in each chapter help you understand anatomy and how it affects coding. Realistic patient cases simulate your first year of coding by using actual medical records (with personal patient details changed or removed), allowing you to practice coding with advanced material. From the Trenches boxes highlight the experiences of real-life professional medical coders and include photographs, quotes, practical tips, and advice. Auditing cases prepare you to assign correct codes to complicated records, as well as audit records for accuracy. More than 180 full-color illustrations depict and clarify advanced coding concepts. UPDATED content includes the latest coding information available, to promote accurate coding and success on the job.
Download or read book The Next Step Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing 2016 Edition E Book written by Carol J. Buck and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastering advanced medical coding skills is easier with Carol J. Buck's proven, step-by-step method! The Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing, 2016 Edition uses real-world patient cases to explain coding for services such as medical visits, diagnostic testing and interpretation, treatments, surgeries, and anesthesia. Hands-on practice with physician documentation helps you take the next step in coding proficiency. With this guide from coding author and educator Carol J. Buck, you will learn to confidently pull the right information from medical documents, select the right codes, determine the correct sequencing of those codes, and then properly audit cases. UNIQUE! Evaluation and Management (E/M) audit forms include clear coding instructions to help reduce errors in determining the correct level of service. Real-world patient cases (cleared of any patient identifiers) simulate the first year of coding on-the-job by using actual medical records. More than 185 full-color illustrations depict and clarify advanced coding concepts. From the Trenches boxes highlight the real-life experiences of professional medical coders and include photographs, quotes, practical tips, and advice. UPDATED content includes the latest coding information available, for accurate coding and success on the job.
Download or read book Advanced Medical Coding Online the Next Step written by Carol J. Buck and published by W B Saunders Company. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete course on advanced coding, Advanced Medical Coding Online combines content, self-study, and assessment into a single product that can be used to enhance a traditional classroom or immediately implemented as part of an institution's distance learning program. Designed to be used in conjunction with Buck's The Next Step Medical Coding: From Classroom to Practice, this online component reinforces important concepts in concise lessons incorporating figures, photographs, and links to relevant websites. Modules and coding cases in the course parallel the text's table of contents. The course is presented as though the author, Carol Buck, were teaching - helping students navigate the course, checking their comprehension along the way, and providing feedback and encouragement. Engaging Lesson Lectures by Carol Buck appear in each online chapter, personalizing content and guiding the learner through the text and content. Course management tools provide a variety of student and instructor communication options including real-time chat, class calendar, e-mail connections, bulletin board, digital drop box, discussion board, instructor syllabus, and grade books. Try It!, a unique case approach to advanced coding, lets learners read cases, code them onscreen, and receive feedback, including a full rationale for the correct answer. Completed audit forms can be accessed for every applicable Try It! case. Master It! end-of-module exams allow learners to demonstrate their mastery of the content, with automatic scoring of assessments and automatic grade calculations. Links to Abbreviations and Glossary include full descriptions and definitions. Links to relevant websites provide additional resources to enhance learning.
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Download or read book The Next Step Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing 2017 2018 Edition E Book written by Carol J. Buck and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastering advanced medical coding skills is easier with Carol J. Buck's proven, step-by-step method! The Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing, 2017/2018 Edition shows how to code for services such as medical visits, diagnostic testing and interpretation, treatments, surgeries, and anesthesia. Real-world cases take your outpatient coding skills a step further by providing hands-on practice with physician documentation. With this guide from coding author and educator Carol J. Buck, you will learn to confidently 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. UNIQUE! From the Trenches boxes highlight the real-life experiences of professional medical coders and include photographs, quotes, practical tips, and advice. UNIQUE! Evaluation and Management (E/M) audit forms include clear coding instructions to help reduce errors in determining the correct level of service. Nearly 200 full-color illustrations depict and clarify advanced coding concepts. Coding updates and tips are also provided on the Evolve companion website. UPDATED content includes the latest coding information available, for accurate coding and success on the job. NEW! Additional Netter’s anatomy illustrations provide visual orientation and enhance understanding of specific coding situations.
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Download or read book Advanced Medical Coding Online for the Next Step Medical Coding User Guide and Access Code Textbook and Workbook Package written by Carol J. Buck and published by Saunders. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable, money-saving package includes The Next Step, Advanced Medical Coding 2009 Edition, Workbook for The Next Step, Advanced Medical Coding 2009 Edition, and Advanced Medical Coding Online 2009 for The Next Step, Advanced Medical Coding 2009 Edition (User Guide & Access Code).
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Download or read book The Next Step Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing 2013 Edition written by Carol J. Buck and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning advanced medical coding concepts is easy with Carol J. Buck's proven, step-by-step method! The Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing, 2013 Edition provides an in-depth understanding of physician-based medical coding and coding services such as medical visits, diagnostic testing and interpretation, treatments, surgeries, and anesthesia. Patient cases reflect actual medical records - with personal details changed or removed - and give you real-world experience coding from physical documentation with advanced material. Enhance your clinical 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-CM with the help of Carol J. Buck! Auditing cases in every chapter offer realistic experience with auditing coded reports. UNIQUE! Evaluation and Management (E/M) Audit Forms, developed to determine the correct E/M codes, simplify the coding process and help you ensure accuracy. Dual Coding prepares you for the switch to ICD-10 by accompanying all ICD-9 answers with corresponding codes from ICD-10-CM. 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. UNIQUE! Netter anatomy plates in each chapter help you understand anatomy and how it affects coding. From the Trenches boxes in each chapter highlight real-life medical coders and provide practical tips, advice, and encouragement. More than 175 illustrations and a full-color design make advanced concepts more accessible and visually engaging. Stronger focus on auditing cases prepares you to assign correct codes to complicated records, as well as audit records for accuracy. Updated content presents the latest coding information so you can practice with the most current information available.
