Fordney’s Medical Insurance - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 15th Edition

by Linda Smith, CPC, CPC-1, CEMC, PCS, CMBS

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

ISBN: 9780323594288

Publication Date: 02-25-2019

Page Count: 544

Imprint: Saunders

List Price: $106.99

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Give your students the hands-on practice they need to excel as insurance billing specialists! Corresponding to the chapters in Fordney’s Medical Insurance and Billing, 15th Edition, Medical Insurance Online provides convenient review and practice in key areas such as diagnostic coding, procedural coding, paper and electronic claims, Medicare, HIPAA, and bill collection strategies. Exercises and activities let students apply insurance concepts to common billing and coding tasks. With 20 learning modules, MIO ensures that students will make an easier transition from the classroom to the workplace.

Key Features
- Interactive exercises and activities provide frequent opportunities to recall and recognize medical insurance concepts.
- Gradable quizzes and exams provide you with proof of mastery and highlight areas which may require further study.
- Claims processing activities help you understand how crucial completing a clean claim form is for both the patient and the medical office.
- Reading references connect this online course with the Fordney’s Medical Insurance and Billing textbook, providing practice with applying the book’s concepts.
New to This Edition
- NEW! Thorough module updates reflect the latest information in claim submission methods, challenges with Medicare, and diagnostic coding.
- NEW! Ambulatory Surgical Center billing module is included.
- NEW! Gradable case studies connect the text’s concepts to real-world scenarios.
- NEW! Expanded coverage of ICD-10 coding, and EHR and electronic claim forms is included.
- NEW! Expanded coverage of inpatient insurance billing is included.
- NEW! Designed to meet all Level A and AA checkpoints of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.
Contents

Modules:
1. Role of an Insurance Billing Specialist
2. Privacy, Security, and HIPAA
3. Compliance, Fraud, and Abuse
4. Basics of Health Insurance
5. The Blue Plans, Private Insurance and Managed Care Plans
6. Medicare
7. Medicaid and Other State Programs
8. TRICARE and Veteran’s Health Care
9. Worker’s Compensation
10. Disability Income Insurance and Disability Benefit Insurance
11. Medical Documentation and the Electronic Health Record
12. Diagnostic Coding
13. Procedural Coding
14. The Paper Claim: CMS-1500 (02-12)
15. The Electronic Claim
16. Receiving Payments and Insurance Problem Solving
17. Collection Strategies
18. Ambulatory Surgery Center
19. Hospital Outpatient and Inpatient Billing
20. Seeking a Job and Attaining Professional Advancement
Authors

Linda Smith, CPC, CPC-1, CEMC, PCS, CMBS, Consultant/Educator, MedOffice Resources, Greene, New York.