The Next Step: Medical Coding from Classroom to Practice: A Worktext, 2e [Paperback]

Carol J. Buck MS CPC CPC-H CCS-P (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1416023216 | ISBN-13: 978-1416023210 | Publication Date: December 21, 2005 | Edition: 2

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

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Book Description

Master the essentials of advanced medical coding

About the Author

Carol J. Buck, MS,CPC, Program Director (Retired), Medical Secretarial Programs, Northwest Technical College, East Grand Forks, MN --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 784 pages
• Publisher: Saunders; 2 edition (December 21, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416023216
• ISBN-13: 978-1416023210
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,448,961 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Carol J. Buck has a Master's degree in Education, as well as CPC-I, CCS-P, CPC, and CPC-H national certifications. For 20 years she served as the Program Director of the Medical Secretarial programs at the Northwest Technical College in Minnesota. She developed diploma and associate programs in medical coding. Now retired, Carol spends her time writing texts related to medical coding, certification, specialization, and reference manuals, which are known as the Step Series.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Material -- Bad concept on CD, July 17, 2007

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Jennie Horner "Jen" (Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding, Professional Edition with Answers, 1e (Paperback)

I count on Carol J Buck to provide outstanding study materials because I had never been disappointed. After using this book and CD I have to say I am disappointed. The book is o.k. but not as well organized or user friendly as previous and I absolutely hate the CD. It is ridiculous not to be able to check your work (pretest) and try again. Once you submit the pretest your locked out from taking this again. That is not how I study. I prefer to be able to retest over individual sections and be scored as I progress. The 2005 study guide was far superior.