Buck's The Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing, 2025/2026 Edition, 1st Edition
by Elsevier Inc and Jackie Koesterman, CPC
Spiral Bound
ISBN:
9780443248801
Copyright:
2025
Publication Date:
12-04-2024
Page Count:
560
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$109.99
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Help your students 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) take your students’ coding proficiency a step further by providing hands-on practice with physician documentation. With this guide, students will learn to pull the right information from medical documents, select the right codes, determine the correct sequencing of those codes, and properly audit cases.
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- NEW! Coding updates include the latest information available, including 2026 code updates when released.
- 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.
- 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.
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1. Evaluation and Management Services
2. Medicine
3. Radiology
4. Pathology and Laboratory
5. Integumentary System
6. Cardiovascular System
7. Digestive System, Hemic/Lymphatic System, and Mediastinum/Diaphragm
8. Musculoskeletal System
9. Respiratory System
10. Urinary, Male Genital, and Endocrine Systems
11. Female Genital System and Maternity Care/Delivery
12. Nervous System
13. Eye and Auditory Systems
14. Anesthesia
FIGURE CREDITS
APPENDICES
A CMS AB-01-144
B Online Resources
C Abbreviations
D Answers to Every Other Case
GLOSSARY
INDEX
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Elsevier Inc and Jackie Koesterman, CPC, Coding and Reimbursement Specialist, JDK Medical Coding EDU, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA