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Tenth Edition
By
Marilyn Fordney, CMA-AC, Formerly, Instructor of Medical Insurance, Medical Terminology, Medical Machine Transcription, and Medical Office Procedures, Ventura College, Ventura, CA
Description
Trusted by medical insurance specialists for more than 30 years, Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office helps you excel at all aspects
of insurance billing for a full range of today's health care plans. This edition helps you keep pace with industry changes, featuring
the latest information on HIPAA regulations, diagnostic coding, procedural coding, office and insurance collection strategies, Medicare,
and more. The accompanying Student Workbook with CD-ROM (sold separately) lets you practice "real world" billing with patient simulations
using Altapoint and the Student Software Challenge.
Contents
Unit One: Career Role and Responsibilities
1. Role of an Insurance Billing Specialist
2. HIPAA Compliance
and Privacy in Insurance Billing
Unit Two: The Claims Process
3. Basics of Health Insurance
4.
Medical Documentation
5. Diagnostic Coding
6. Procedural Coding
7. The Paper Claim: CMS-1500
8. Electronic
Data Interchange: Transactions and Security
9. Receiving Payments and Insurance Problem Solving
10. Office and Insurance
Collection Strategies
Unit Three: Health Care Payers
11. The Blues Plans, Private Insurance, and Managed
Care Plans
12. Medicare
13. Medicaid and Other State Programs
14. TRICARE and CHAMPVA
15. Workers' Compensation
16.
Disability Income Insurance and Disability Benefit Programs
Unit Four: Inpatient and Outpatient Billing
17.
Hospital Billing
18. Seeking a Job and Attaining Professional Advancement
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 736 pages, publication date: NOV-2007
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-3666-1
ISBN-10: 1-4160-3666-0
Imprint: SAUNDERS
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Last update: 25 Nov 2009
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