Adding to what you learned in Step-by-Step Medical Coding, The Next Step, Advanced Medical Coding 2009 Edition helps you master advanced medical coding concepts and services such as medical visits, diagnostic testing and interpretation, treatments, surgeries, and anesthesia. Learning these advanced coding concepts is easy with Carol J. Buck's time-tested step-by-step method. This worktext will help you build a more in-depth understanding of physician-based medical coding to enhance critical thinking. It will help you master skills like pulling the right information from documents, selecting the right codes, and determining the correct sequencing of those codes. Patient cases in the text are actual medical records with personal patient details changed or removed, giving you real-world experience coding from physical documentation with advanced material. Actual patient cases present 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 highlight real-life medical coders in each chapter 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 to allow you the flexibility of choosing the set of guidelines with which to assign E/M codes. Evolve Learning Resource site features updates, tips, and additional resources and gives you an opportunity for extra review. Updated content reflects the latest developments in coding so you can practice with the most current information available. New full-color design and illustrations make advanced concepts more accessible and visually engaging.