Advanced Medical Coding Online For The Next Step Advanced Medical Coding 2010 Edition

This money saving package includes Advanced Medical Coding Online 2010 for The Next Step, Advanced Medical Coding 2010 Edition (User Guide & Access Code) and Textbook.

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).

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.

Paralleling the organization of The Next Step, Advanced Medical Coding 2010 Edition, this practical workbook provides additional advanced-level reports for each chapter to help you master coding concepts and apply your knowledge to realistic coding scenarios similar to what you'll encounter on the job! Original source documents with patient details removed provide real-world experience to better prepare you for professional expectations. Realistic patient cases simulate the professional coding experience and strengthen your application and critical thinking skills. Challenging review cases follow the same answer format as the textbook and help you transfer textbook knowledge to actual medical record documentation. A 2-color design makes it easy to find specific features and streamline your review and practice.

Northwest Technical College, East Grand Forks, MN. Annual online course offers study tools for coding. Includes realistic medical scenarios, animated slideshows with narration, more than 650 commonly used words and abbreviations in medical coding, and end-of-chapter exams. For coding students. Textbook profiled AP 2010-07. Softcover.

This money saving package includes Advanced Medical Coding Online 2009 for The Next Step, Advanced Medical Coding 2009 Edition - User Guide, Access Code & Textbook.

Learning advanced medical coding concepts is easy with Carol J. Buck's time-tested step-by-step method! Building on what you learned in Step-by-Step Medical Coding, this case-based text simulates the professional coding experience and provides an in-depth understanding of physician-based medical coding and services such as medical visits, diagnostic testing and interpretation, treatments, surgeries, and anesthesia. Patient cases throughout reflect actual medical records with personal details changed or removed, giving 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 more! Full-color design and illustrations make advanced concepts more accessible and visually engaging. Actual patient cases familiarize you with real-world situations you'll encounter in practice. UNIQUE! Evaluation and Management (E/M) Audit Forms, developed to determine the correct E/M codes, provide a visual representation of the coding process as you build your E/M skills by abstracting history, examination, medical decision-making levels. From the Trenches boxes in each chapter highlight real-life medical coders and provide practical advice and motivation. Includes both 1995 and 1997 CMS guidelines for documentation of Evaluation and Management services for Medicare and Medicaid patients, giving you the flexibility of choosing the set of guidelines with which to assign E/M codes. Evolve Learning Resource site provides convenient opportunities for further review through content updates, tips, and additional resources. Updated content reflects the latest developments in coding so you can learn and practice with the most current information available. Dual Coding prepares you for the switch from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM, presenting corresponding codes from each ICD-CM set together for easy reference.