Comprehensive Coding will prepare you to work in the business office of a healthcare facility with focus on medical coding skills. As a medical coder, you will be able to assign diagnostic and procedures codes within the electronic medical record, while maintaining compliance with established rules and regulatory body guidelines. General topics covered include ICD-9 and ICD-10, CPT coding, basic anatomy and physiology, and medical terminology and abbreviations.
Medical coders use alphanumeric diagnostic and procedure codes to convey critical information about illnesses and medical treatment. To choose the most appropriate codes, these specialists review the patient’s history and test results, and talk to the patient’s doctor to uncover missing information. Doctors and hospitals use code data to track their performance and prevent fraud and error that could harm patients.
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HCPCS 2020 Level II Professional Edition by 
Medical Billing and Coding for Dummies by 
CPT Professional 2020 by 
Provides coverage of complementary and alternative medicine back to 1990. (Mostly full text)
CINAHL Complete provides broad content coverage including 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine and more.
This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of e-books covering a large selection of academic subjects and features e-books from leading publishers and university presses. Removes access barriers with hundreds of thousands of DRM-free options that can easily be read on any device.
Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.
Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. (Full-text).
Covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. (Bibliographic; some links to full-text)
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