Coding for Medical Necessity in the Physician's Office

Name: Coding for Medical Necessity in the Physician's Office
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ISBN: 9781418050214

ISBN-10: 1418050210

ISBN-13: 9781418050214

Edition: 2008

Authors: Deborah Kelly-Farwell, Cecile Favreau

List price: $123.95

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This textbook will contain many opportunities to abstract from medical documents. The format of the book will be more of a Worktext, with an introduction. This book will describe medical scenarios for abstracting diagnoses and procedures and matching diagnoses with the correct procedures. Students can learn how to code, but what they dont really learn is to extract the right information from medical records in order to code properly. Oftentimes students have a hard time understanding that both ICD-9 and CPT codes are needed for the claim. This book will address these problems. This book will include more advanced coding concepts and more on abstracting diagnoses and procedures than what is…

Book details

List price: $123.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Publication date: 2/7/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Deborah Kelly-Farwell BS, CCS-P, CPC Coding and Charge Entry Manager Fallon Clinic Faculty at The Salter School, Worcester, MA Teaches Coding, Medical Terminology, A&P, Medical Insurance, Medical Office, Computers

Cecile Favreau, MBA, CPC is currently a Professional Relations Specialist with UMass Memorial Medical Group and an instructor at the Salter School in Worcester, MA.




Review of ICD-9 Diagnosis and Tools of ICD-9



Review of CPT and Tools of CPT



Coding with Modifiers and CCI Edits



Abstracting from Medical Documentation



E/M



Anesthesia Services



Surgeries



Radiology



Laboratory and Pathology



Medicine



HCPCS



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