Product Description: Designed to work equally well for classroom education and on-the-job training, this text gives users the knowledge and experience they need to code with confidence in physicians' practices and other freestanding ambulatory care facilities.

The text includes numerous practice exercises based on actual case documentation and provides users with considerable hands-n practice in analyzing and coding clinical data. Includes CPT updates effective January 1, 2005.

A free online instructor's guide is available to AHIMA member-educators on the Assembly on Education's Community of Practice.