2015 Step-by-step medical coding by Buck, Carol J instant download

2015 Step-by-step medical coding by Buck, Carol J instant download

xxxiii, 969 pages : 28 cm, Includes index, Ch. 1. Reimbursement, HIPAA, and compliance. Basic structure of the Medicare program -- Health insurance portability and accountability act -- Federal register -- Outpatient resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) -- Medicare fraud -- Managed health care, Ch. 2. Overview of ICD-10-CM. ICD-10-CM replaces the ICD-9-CM volumes 1 and 2 -- Improvements in the ICD-10-CM -- Structure of the system -- Mapping -- Index -- Tabular -- Official instructional notations in the ICD-10-CM, Ch. 3. ICD-10-CM outpatient coding and reporting guidelines. First-listed diagnosis -- Unconfirmed diagnosis -- Outpatient surgery -- Additional diagnoses -- Z codes -- Observation stay -- First-listed diagnosis and coexisting conditions -- Uncertain diagnoses -- Chronic diseases -- Documented conditions -- Diagnostic services -- Therapeutic services -- Preoperative evaluation -- Prenatal visits, Ch. 4. Using ICD-10-CM. Organization of the guidelines -- Accurate coding -- Alphabetic index and tabular list -- Level of specificity -- Integral conditions -- Multiple coding -- Acute and chronic -- Combination codes -- Late effects -- Reporting same diagnosis code more than once -- Laterality, Ch. 5. Chapter-specific guidelines (ICD-10-CM chapter 1-10). Certain infectious and parasitic diseases -- Neoplasms -- Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism -- Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases -- Mental, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders -- Diseases of the nervous system -- Diseases of the eye and adnexa -- Diseases of the ear and mastoid process -- Diseases of the circulatory system -- Diseases of the respiratory system, Ch. 6. Chapter-specific guidelines (ICD-10-CM chapters 11 -- 14). Diseases of the digestive system -- Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue -- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue -- Diseases of the genitourinary system, Ch. 7.…