The Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding, Professional Edition with Answers (Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding)

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