Understanding Health Insurance, 12th Edition, is the essential learning tool your students need when preparing for a career in medical insurance billing. This comprehensive and easy-to-understand text is fully-updated with the latest code sets and guidelines, and covers important topics in the field like managed care, legal and regulatory issues, coding systems, reimbursement methods, medical necessity, and common health insurance plans. The twelfth edition has been updated to include new legislation that affects healthcare, ICD-10-CM coding, implementing the electronic health record, the Medical Integrity Program (MIP), medical review process, and more. The practice exercises in each chapter provide plenty of review, and the workbook (available separately) provides even more application-based assignments and additional case studies for reinforcement. Includes free online SimClaimTM CMS-1500 claims completion software, and free-trial access to Optum's EncoderPro.com—Expert encoder software. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Major Topic Headings ICD - 9 - CM chapters are subdivided into major topic headings printed in bold uppercase letters and followed by a range of codes enclosed in parentheses . Any note or EXCLUDES statement printed below a major topic ...
This book explores the pros and cons of the Affordable Care Act, and explains who benefits from the ACA. Readers will learn how the economy is affected by the ACA, and the impact of the ACA rollout.
THE 1980s: THE REVOLT OF THE PURCHASERS In 1989, Ryan Neighbor, Jerry Neighbor's brother, became concerned when he noticed blood in his stools; he decided to see a physician. Six months earlier, his company had increased the annual ...
Understand how the healthcare system works – and how you can succeed in it Covers the 2010 Affordable Care Act The most trusted and comprehensive guide to healthcare available, Understanding Health Policy provides everything students and ...
Write a research paper that explains major developments in health insurance for a specific period of time . 6. Demonstrate relationships between major developments in health insurance and their impact on health care access , delivery ...
Now fully updated, this edition contains the latest code sets, guidelines, and claim forms to provide readers with the most essential and up-to-date knowledge on billing and reimbursement. The text includes free software.
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The objectives of this edition are to 1) introduce information about major third party payers, 2) provide up-to-date information about federal health care regulations, 3) clarify coding guidelines and provide application exercises for each ...
The eleventh edition has been updated to include new legislation that affects healthcare, ICD-10-CM coding, implementing the electronic health record, the Medical Integrity Program (MIP), medical review process, and more.