Medical Billing & Coding For Dummies

This is a great book for someone who is unfamiliar with working in a medical office, medical insurance, or medical coding, but wants to familiarize themselves before getting their coding certification. (This described me.) This book really clarified many things for me as I just began studying coding a week ago with no prior knowledge. Great book.

I have the 2nd edition and just received the 3rd edition......I went through it briefly. IT'S BASICALLY A UPDATE ...It explains things in detail regarding education and the how to for ICD 10.....Helpful...if you're interested in this career path, then you should get this!

This book has a lot of valuable information, particularly on Medicare, in the second half of the book which focuses on themes other than just billing and coding. This is a useful book for everyone to understand how their own medical bills are devised, not just for those doing the actual billing and coding. For someone in charge of billing, I don't think the book replaces an actual class which can be taken at a community college very inexpensively (on-line if the individual can't leave the house for one reason or another.)

This is great for medical billing to have few parts for medical coding page 275 but I’m a medical coderI was looking for something strictly for medical coding breakdown only but is very knowledgeable if you want to learn how billing part work after you do the coding part

Cons:1) The paper is pretty thin/flimsy. - Highlighting or penciling on one page will leave marks/bleed through to the other side or next page if you press too hard. They also rip pretty easily, so be careful around grabby toddlers or pets who love books.2) missing cheat on website - in the begining of the book, the author mentions a free cheat sheet available on dummies.com. It is no longer available, which is disappointing.Pros1) the author is well spoken, easy to understand, and thorough. She gives both billing and coding ample attention individually and weights the pros and cons of both jobs that are very intertwined.2) the book so a great starting point to help one decide if Medical Coding or Billing or both are a good fit or them and what avenues to go from there - education, certification, work places, benefits and things to be cautious of.A good read for anyone interested in this field.