Insurance handbook for the medical office /
Fordney, Marilyn Takahashi.
Insurance handbook for the medical office / Marilyn Takahashi Fordney. - 9th edition. - St. Louis, Missouri : Saunders, c2006. - xxiv, 664 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Contents;
Unit 1: Career role and responsibilities
1. Role of an insurance billing specialist
2. Compliance and the E-health initiative
Unit 2: 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 3: Health care payers
11. The blue 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 4: Inpatient and outpatient billing
17. Hospital billing
Unit 5: Employment
18. Seeking a job and attaining professional advancement
Includes bibliographical references and index.
9781416001003 141600100X
Health insurance
Medical offices--Management
368.382 / FOR
Insurance handbook for the medical office / Marilyn Takahashi Fordney. - 9th edition. - St. Louis, Missouri : Saunders, c2006. - xxiv, 664 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Contents;
Unit 1: Career role and responsibilities
1. Role of an insurance billing specialist
2. Compliance and the E-health initiative
Unit 2: 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 3: Health care payers
11. The blue 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 4: Inpatient and outpatient billing
17. Hospital billing
Unit 5: Employment
18. Seeking a job and attaining professional advancement
Includes bibliographical references and index.
9781416001003 141600100X
Health insurance
Medical offices--Management
368.382 / FOR