Comprehensive skills and knowledge Chapters are organized around three basic coding skills -- abstracting, assigning, and arranging (sequencing) codes. Students develop skills for abstracting information from patient encounters rather than coding from isolated statements. New - Two new chapters previously online only have been added to the print text -- Advanced Coding Skills (Chapter 56) and Professionalism and Patient Relations (Chapter 57). New - New information on electronic coding tools has been added to Chapter 2, Coding and Reimbursement. More than 6,300 progressively challenging coding exercises Guided Examples throughout each chapter walk students step by step through all aspects of coding and demonstrate the critical thinking skills that experienced coders must apply throughout this process. Mini-medical records accompany each exercise, resulting in a format not found in any other coding text. Students must abstract patient, diagnostic, and procedural information from these records in order to code accurately. Coding Practice exercises in the Abstracting section of chapters guide students through the process of analyzing or abstracting cases without assigning codes.

Some of these exercises appear again in the Assigning and Arranging sections so students can proceed through the coding processes using examples they''ve already analyzed. Expanded - Concept Quiz at each chapter''s end gauges student comprehension of definitions and key concepts. All coding chapters now have additional multiple-choice questions mirroring those on the certification exam. Learning aids Updated - Success Step and Coding Caution sections provide coding tips and warnings alerting students to tricky coding situations. Both sections have been updated to reflect new coding guidelines. Expanded - Illustrative figures , expanded for this edition, include body system diagrams labeled with the English word and medical term, annotated diagrams of pages from coding manuals, and images portraying key points. New - A new appendix with 113 Key Criteria to Abstracting Tables reinforces the elements of cases to code and not to code. A table in each coding chapter lists questions to answer when reviewing a mini-medical record.

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