Picking up where Step-by-Step Medical Coding left off, The Next Step, Advanced Medical Coding: A Worktext, 3rd Edition focuses on mastering the essentials of advanced medical coding and coding services such as medical visits, diagnostic testing and interpretation,
treatments, surgeries, and anesthesia. Learning these advanced coding concepts is easy with the 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.