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Product Description
This money saving package includes Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office – Text, Workbook, and MediSoft Version 14 Demo CD.

Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office – Text, Workbook, and MediSoft Version 14 Demo CD Package

Product Description
This concise, practical text-workbook provides extensive real-world practice with the HIPAA 837 electronic claim form and CMS 1500 paper claims. Includes flow charts, claims processing forms, and medical reports. Coding and billing content is based on industry practice and addresses electronic claims and a variety of compliance issues. The text provides a brief introduction to NDCMedisoft Advanced, Version 9 software.

From Patient to Payment: Insurance Procedures for the Medical Office with CD-ROM & Student Data Disk

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This text is structured to reflect a day in the life of an insurance codding and billing specialist. Using a “layered learning” concept, the student will move through the book in a logical progression, building upon each element learned at each stage of the reimbursement process. Students will learn to carefully glean pertinent data to code accurately from review and analysis of: a.) Superbills, b.) Provider’s notes, c.) Referral authorization forms, and d.) New patient information forms.

Insurance Coding and Electronic Claims for the Medical Office

  • ISBN13: 9781416036661
  • Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Product 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.

  • Procedural (CPT and HCPCS) and diagnostic (ICD-9-CM) coding and documentation are emphasized, since they are the keystones to obtaining maximum reimbursement.
  • Key terms are bolded at first mention, explained within the context of the discussion, and defined in the glossary.
  • Separate chapters on Electronic Data Interchange and HIPAA Compliance and Privacy in Insurance Billing provide essential knowledge of electronic claims filing, informing you of submission guidelines used in the majority of medical offices today.
  • Icons clearly identify each insurance payer with a specific color and graphic, making specific information easy to locate.
  • Compliance features located at appropriate points throughout most chapters offer tips to ensure compliance with correct billing and coding practice, particularly HIPAA and OIG.
  • A separate chapter on documentation in the medical office describes how proper documentation can prevent penalties and refund requests, and help you prove compliance in the case of an audit or review.
  • Detailed examples and samples of completed insurance forms show you how to apply knowledge in the real world.
  • Emphasis on the business of running a medical office highlights the importance of the medical insurance specialist’s role in filing clean claims, solving problems that do occur, and collecting overdue payments.
  • Service to Patient feature throughout the chapters focuses on ways to provide quality service to the patient as well as your co-workers.
  • All content has been reviewed by industry experts and meticulously updated to reflect recent changes in insurance claim filing.
  • In addition to the list of key terms at the beginning of each chapter, a separate list of key abbreviations clarifies common terms identified in the field primarily by their abbreviations.
  • Key points at the end of each chapter briefly summarize important chapter content to help you better understand the subject matter.

Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office

Product Description
Get the real-life practice you need to prepare for a successful career! Designed to support Fordney’s Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office, 11th Edition, this workbook parallels the material in the textbook, and provides realistic, hands-on exercises that help you apply concepts and develop important critical-thinking skills. A companion Evolve website includes patient simulations for additional practice in real-world billing.

  • Online Student Software Challenge contains 10 patient cases that you can use to complete the CMS-1500 claim form.
  • Self-study review exercises include matching, true/false, multiple-choice, and fill-in-the-blank questions to help you remember important material.
  • Critical-thinking assignments help you apply theory to practice, using short, real-world scenarios to prepare you for working in today’s medical office.
  • Key Terms and Key Abbreviations provide a quick reference to the insurance terminology you need to know.
  • A study outline and performance objectives focus your review and ensure that you meet expected outcomes.
  • Evolve resources include Student Software Challenge, online activities, and web links for further research and study.
  • Learning objectives are reorganized to more closely follow the material in the textbook and the workbook, making it easier to study.
  • New CMS-1500 software helps you complete exercises and practice skills quickly and easily.

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