Best Medical Practice Management
The updates that appear in this revision have been prepared by the CPT Editorial Panel with the assistance of physicians representing all specialties of medicine, and with important contributions from many third-party payers and government organizations.
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The ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Coding Handbook is the only guide published in collaboration with the Central Office on ICD-10-CM/PCS (formerly Central Office on ICD-9-CM) of the American Hospital Association. Handbook content reflects 2017 versions of the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting as well as AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS content published through May 2017. Exercise answers in the case summaries list assigned and appropriately sequenced codes, followed by a comments section that explains how codes were assigned and why other codes were not assigned. Readers must apply pertinent coding principles and official coding guidelines in making code assignments and designating the principal diagnosis and procedure for each episode of care. The author heads the AHA Central Office on ICD-10-CM/PCS (formerly ICD-9-CM) and the Central Office on HCPCS.
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In Being Mortal , bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. “ Being Mortal , Atul Gawande's masterful exploration of aging, death, and the medical profession's mishandling of both, is his best and most personal book yet.” ― Boston Globe. combining his years of experience as a surgeon with his gift for fluid, seemingly effortless storytelling . has provided us with a moving and clear-eyed look at aging and death in our society, and at the harms we do in turning it into a medical problem, rather than a human one.” ― The New York Review of Books. “A deeply affecting, urgently important book--one not just about dying and the limits of medicine but about living to the last with autonomy, dignity, and joy.” ―Katherine Boo. Gawande's book is not of the kind that some doctors write, reminding us how grim the fact of death can be. Rather, he shows how patients in the terminal phase of their illness can maintain important qualities of life.” ― Wall Street Journal (Best Books of 2014). “ Being Mortal left me tearful, angry, and unable to stop talking about it for a week. A surgeon himself, Gawande is eloquent about the inadequacy of medical school in preparing doctors to confront the subject of death with their patients. “We have come to medicalize aging, frailty, and death, treating them as if they were just one more clinical problem to overcome. Being Mortal is not only wise and deeply moving, it is an essential and insightful book for our times, as one would expect from Atul Gawande, one of our finest physician writers.” ―Oliver Sacks. “A great read that leaves you better equipped to face the future, and without making you feel like you just took your medicine.” ― Mother Jones (Best Books of 2014). “Gawande displays the precision of his surgical craft and the compassion of a humanist . One hopes it is the spark that ignites some revolutionary changes in a field of medicine that ultimately touches each of us.” ― Shelf Awareness (Best Books of 2014). “A needed call to action, a cautionary tale of what can go wrong, and often does, when a society fails to engage in a sustained discussion about aging and dying.” ― San Francisco Chronicle.
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"In reading many of his previous books I found he always asked questions: Why do we do things; for what purpose; is this working to achieve the best results for the patient in his physical and cultural circumstance? In speaking of elder care he sadly points out that "Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm and suffering we inflict on people and has denied them the basic comforts they need most". He looks at the "Dying Role" as the end approaches describing it as the patient's ability to "share memories, pass on wisdom and keepsakes, settle relationships, establish legacies and make peace with their God. Gawande shares his deep seated feelings in this book by revealing personal vignettes of how friends and family coped with these powerful and challenging issues."
Best Medical Coding & Billing
The CPT® 2017 Professional Edition codebook features the following enhancements: - Updated alphabetical tabular listing of most analytes in the Pathology and Laboratory section eases your code search by directing you to applicable molecular pathology codes based on a specific analyte. - Enhanced codebook table of contents allows users to perform a quick search of the codebook s entire content without being in a specific section. The American Medical Association (AMA) provides products and services that empower health care organizations to practice medicine more efficiently and effectively while improving the health of patients.
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Best Medical Ethics
Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Washington, a journalist and bioethicist who has worked at Harvard Medical School and Tuskegee University, has accumulated a wealth of documentation, beginning with Thomas Jefferson exposing hundreds of slaves to an untried smallpox vaccine before using it on whites, to the 1990s, when the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University ran drug experiments on African-American and black Dominican boys to determine a genetic predisposition for "disruptive behavior."
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Best Medicaid & Medicare
If you are one of the millions of Americans who are turning sixty-five this year, or if that benchmark is drawing near, you’re probably finding yourself faced with a lot of questions concerning your future and, in particular, your health care and how to afford it. Uniquely combining his professional expertise with his own personal insights and recommendations, Dr. Kahan authored Medicare Demystified to provide senior citizens, and/or the loved ones overseeing their care, with unbiased, invaluable information on understanding Medicare, getting the most out of coverage, and accessing care effectively and with ease.
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Best Medical History & Records
The CPT® 2017 Professional Edition codebook features the following enhancements: - Updated alphabetical tabular listing of most analytes in the Pathology and Laboratory section eases your code search by directing you to applicable molecular pathology codes based on a specific analyte. - Enhanced codebook table of contents allows users to perform a quick search of the codebook s entire content without being in a specific section. The American Medical Association (AMA) provides products and services that empower health care organizations to practice medicine more efficiently and effectively while improving the health of patients.
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"Just what I need to do my job!"
"You can never go wrong with this book, if you work in a hospital or medical setting."
"Good book for school."
"As needed for the medical coding class and advance coding class."
"Exactly what I need to complete the curse and my assignments."
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Best Health Risk Assessment
As the most widely-used textbook on managed care, Essentials of Managed Health Care provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the key strategic, tactical, and operational aspects of managed health care and health insurance.
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Best Hospital Administration & Care
Expanded discussion of health insurance, reimbursement methodologies, and the impact of healthcare reform on provider behavior A new presentation of managerial accounting material that follows a more logical progression of concepts, emphasizing the level of analysis (organization, department, service) rather than techniques Coverage of three service-line costing methods: cost-to-charge ratio, relative value unit, and activity-based costing. Louis C. Gapenski, PhD, is a professor of health services administration with a specialization in corporate and healthcare finance at the University of Florida.
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Best Health Care Delivery
Key Features: - Comprehensive coverage of the ACA and its impact on each aspect of the U.S. health care system woven throughout the book. - New "ACA Takeaway" section in each chapter as well as a new Topical Reference Guide to the ACA at the front of the book. - Updated tables and figures, current research findings, data from the 2010 census, updates on Healthy People 2020, and more. - Detailed coverage of the U.S. health care system in straightforward, reader-friendly language that is appropriate for graduate and undergraduate courses alike.
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Best Health Policy
Health Care USA, Ninth Edition offers students of health administration, public health, medicine, and related fields a wide-ranging overview of America's health care system.
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Best Public Health
He guides you from an explanation of the epidemiologic approach to disease and intervention, through the use of epidemiologic principles to identify the causes of disease, to a discussion of how epidemiology should be used to improve evaluation and public policy. Master the latest nuances in epidemiology thanks to a wealth of new and updated illustrations, examples, and epidemiologic data. If this is not the case and students have the previous edition, they can still learn the principles and methods of epidemiology from the prior edition. Overall, I think it is an excellent book for medical students and occupational medicine trainees and a useful revision and reference text for consultant occupational physicians―one of the most clearly laid out and readable general epidemiology texts that I have ever seen."
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Best Nosology
Intuitively organized into 17 sections of code tables with supplementary definitions tables and device and body part keys, the Optum360 ICD-10-PCS code book sets the standard for coding accuracy which is the cornerstone of healthcare analytics and revenue cycle management. Ease into the new classification system using these handy code tables to build the code through character value selections that reflect the procedure performed. This edition includes all our hallmark color-coding and symbols for the most comprehensive coverage of ICD10 MS-DRG MCEs for procedures including: non-covered procedures, limited coverage procedures, combination only procedures, non-operating room procedures affecting MS-DRG assignment, non-operating room procedures NOT affecting MS-DRG assignment, hospital acquired condition (HAC) related procedures.
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