|
Independent Medical Coding : The Comprehensive Guidebook for Career Success As a Medical Coder | 
 enlarge | Authors: Donna Avila-Weil, Rhonda Regan
Publisher: Rayve Productions Inc
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
Buy New: $12.95
You Save: $22.00 (63%)
New (9) Used (13) from $6.66
Rating:  9 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 267
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 1877810177
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.00148
EAN: 9781877810176
Publication Date: October 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The comprehensive guidebook for career success as a medical coder. How to start and successfully run your own professional independent medical coding business. Types of services to offer. Marketing tips. Medical transcriptionists as coders. Numerous topics and resource lists. Covers skills vital to success; education; certification; coding systems; home office set-up; pricing; business operations; ethics; risk management; finances; taxes; contracts; Internet; confidentiality; alternate careers for medical coding specialists; and much more. If you're looking for a solid new career, consider medical coding -- one of the hottest professional opportunities today! Currently, there is a shortage of qualified medical coders in health care, and as managed care increases, more coders will be needed. Here's everything you need to know to be on the forefront of this exciting new industry.
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 9
 An absolute "must-have" for anyone considering the benefits of a medical coding career. September 1, 2007
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Co-authors Donna Avila-Weil, RHIT and Rhonda Regan, CCS, CCS-P combine their expertise in the updated second edition of Independent Medical Coding: The Comprehensive Guidebook for Career Success as a Medical Coder. Independent Medical Coding is an in-depth guide to pursuing medical coding as a career - an excellent opportunity, given that demand for skilled medical coders currently outstrips supply. Chapters cover how to gain the necessary education, as well as cultivating the needed interpersonal and organizational skills; how to become credentialed; specifics on different types of coding systems; how to establish an independent coding business; alternative careers for a coding specialist; and much more. An absolute "must-have" for anyone considering the benefits of a medical coding career.
 Not a bad starting point, but not an all-purpose go-to resource. January 3, 2007
Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Donna Avila-Weil, Independent Medical Coding (Rayve Productions, 1999)
Looking for information on being a medical coder? This could be an interesting start, but it likely won't complete your education.
Independent Medical Coding spends its first third or so going over some general concepts you'll need to know in coding, though the key word here is "general"; you'll end up using this as a jumping-off point to find more detailed books about the ins and outs of coding.
The rest of the book is devoted to more general discussion on starting your own home-based business, all of which once again is of a general nature and will probably send you searching for more detailed books on the same topic, if you're looking to start your own business rather than code for a company. So this one is worth your time if you're brand-new to the search, but be aware you'll be buying more books after this. ***
 Title is misleading - and other reviews are woefully bad July 16, 2003
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
The word "comprehensive" in the title is the objectionable term here since this book is essentially a series of short, insufficient passages. There is nothing here that couldn't be found for free on the internet or with a little bit of work reviewing *any* basic "starting your own business books." I'll be returning this book. Ironically, I'm out the return postage cost, but since the book is really only a handbook and uses a big font, the cost probably won't be much to ship such a small book back. My advice is to not waste your money unless you need a primer on basic business principles and a reference for where to get the medical coder training.
Independent Medical Coding March 1, 2002
Lois A. Sullivan (Bear, Delaware USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is really a great resource. I have devoured it. There is so much useful information in it and it is the first book I have found on this subject that goes into all it would take to make this a great career move. I was looking for a great home business and I think this book will be a great help. I wish I had found it sooner. Good job for the authors.
 An excellent resource for coding professionals March 20, 2000
Brooke Mendoza (Fair Oaks, CA)
21 out of 23 found this review helpful
I was very pleased to find this book on Independent Medical Coding. I had been considering just such a career, but didn't know where to begin. This book was exactly what I needed. It gives the experienced coder an alternative career path into entrepeneurship without doing "billing". This book provided me the first stepping stone in what is soon to be my new career. I would like to see the authors do an even more in-depth book, providing even more information about this field. Because books of this nature are so rare, a comprehensive reference would be wonderful, and I would gladly pay extra for the information. The book as written, however, is an excellent resource and I definitely recommend it to anyone already skilled in coding who is interested in working for themselves. Thank you for writing this book!
Showing reviews 1-5 of 9
|
|
|
| |
