Master advanced coding skills with plenty of hands-on practice and guidance from the most trusted name in coding education! From leading coding author and educator Carol J. Buck, The Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing uses real-world patient cases (cleared of any patient identifiers) to explain coding for services such as medical visits, diagnostic testing and interpretation, treatments, surgeries, and anesthesia. Hands-on practice with physician documentation helps students take the next step in coding proficiency. Learn to confidently pull the right information from medical documents, select the right codes, determine the correct sequencing of those codes, and then properly audit cases using Carol J. Buck's proven, step-by-step method.