Insurance handbook for the medical office / Marilyn Takahashi Fordney.

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.