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cover image - Fordney's Medical Insurance and Billing,16th Edition
ISBN: 9780323795357
Copyright: 2023
Publication Date: 01-25-2022
Page Count: 592
Imprint: Saunders
List Price: $143.99

Fordney's Medical Insurance and Billing, 16th Edition

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

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cover image - Fordney's Medical Insurance and Billing,16th Edition
ISBN: 9780323795357
Copyright: 2023
Publication Date: 01-25-2022
Page Count: 592
Imprint: Saunders
List Price: $143.99
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Help your students gain the medical insurance skills they need to succeed in today’s outpatient and inpatient settings! Fordney's Medical Insurance and Billing, 16th Edition helps students learn the insurance billing specialist’s role and responsibilities in areas such as diagnostic coding, procedural coding, billing, and collection. Using clear, easy-to-understand explanations, this book covers all types of insurance coverage commonly encountered in hospitals, physicians’ offices, and clinics. Step-by-step guidelines lead readers through medical documentation and administrative procedures. Trusted for more than 30 years, this market-leading text is a complete guide to becoming an efficient insurance billing specialist.

    • Coverage of medical documentation, diagnostic coding, and procedural coding provides you with the foundation and skills needed to work in a physician’s office as well as outpatient and inpatient settings.
    • Coverage of the role and responsibilities of the insurance billing specialist emphasizes advanced job opportunities and certification.
    • Step-by-step procedures detail common responsibilities of the insurance billing specialist and coder.
    • Key terms and abbreviationsare defined and emphasized, reinforcing your understanding of new concepts and terminology.
    • Color-coded icons denote and clarify information, rules, and regulations for each type of payer.
    • Privacy, Security, and HIPAA chapter and Compliance Alerts throughout the book highlight important HIPAA compliance issues and regulations.
    • NEW! Insights From The Field includes short interviews with insurance billing specialists who have experience in the field, providing a snapshot of their career paths and offering advice to the new student.
    • NEW! Scenario boxes help you apply concepts to real-world situations.
    • NEW! Quick Review sections summarize chapter content and also include review questions.
    • NEW! Discussion Points provide the opportunity for students and instructors to participate in interesting and open dialogues related to the chapter’s content.
    • NEW! Expanded Health Care Facility Billing chapters are revised to provide the latest information impacting the insurance billing specialist working in a variety of healthcare facility settings.
    • NEW! Insights From The Field includes short interviews with insurance billing specialists who have experience in the field, providing a snapshot of their career paths and offering advice to the new student.
    • NEW! Scenario boxes help you apply concepts to real-world situations.
    • NEW! Quick Review sections summarize chapter content and also include review questions.
    • NEW! Discussion Points provide the opportunity for students and instructors to participate in interesting and open dialogues related to the chapter’s content.
    • NEW! Expanded Health Care Facility Billing chapters are revised to provide the latest information impacting the insurance billing specialist working in a variety of healthcare facility settings.
  • UNIT 1 Career Role and Responsibilities
    1 Role of an Insurance Billing Specialist
    2 Privacy, Security, and HIPAA
    3 Compliance, Fraud, and Abuse
    UNIT 2 Introduction to Health Insurance
    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 Veterans’ Health Care
    9 Workers’ Compensation
    10 Disability Income Insurance and Disability Benefit Programs
    UNIT 3 Documentation and Coding for Professional Services
    11 Medical Documentation and the Electronic Health Record
    12 Diagnostic Coding
    13 Procedural Coding
    UNIT 4 Claims Submission in the Medical Office
    14 The Paper Claim CMS-1500
    15 The Electronic Claim
    UNIT 5 The Claim Follow-Up and Payment Process
    16 Receiving Payments and Insurance Problem Solving
    17 Collection Strategies
    UNIT 6 Health Care Facility Billing
    18 Introduction to Health Care Facilities and Ambulatory Surgery Centers
    19 Billing for Health Care Facilities
    UNIT 7 Employment
    20 Seeking a Job and Attaining Professional Advancement
  • Linda M. Smith, CPC, CPC-1, CEMC, PCS, CMBS, Consultant/Educator, MedOffice Resources, Greene, New York.
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