cover image - Workbook for Beik’s Health Insurance Today, 8th Edition
ISBN: 9780323934183
Copyright: 2025
Publication Date: 11-21-2023
Page Count: 416
Imprint: Saunders
List Price: $50.99

Workbook for Beik’s Health Insurance Today, 8th Edition

by Julie Pepper, BS, CMA (AAMA)

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cover image - Workbook for Beik’s Health Insurance Today, 8th Edition
ISBN: 9780323934183
Copyright: 2025
Publication Date: 11-21-2023
Page Count: 416
Imprint: Saunders
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Corresponding to the chapters in Beik’s Health Insurance Today, 8th Edition, this workbook lets you practice the skills you will need to succeed as a health insurance professional. Practical assignments reinforce the information in the text, and engaging learning activities and case studies challenge you to apply your knowledge to real-world situations. This edition adds up-to-date coverage of cybersecurity, COVID-19, crowdfunding for medical bills, and more.

    • In-class projects and discussion topics enhance understanding of specific content from the text.
    • Performance-based activities include hands-on, application-based learning exercises that provide practice in areas such as completing claim forms, posting payments to a patient's ledger, filling out Release to Return to Work forms, and filling out Medicare appeals.
    • Problem-solving and collaborative (group) activities emphasize the importance of teamwork in the healthcare field.
    • Case studies ask students to solve real-world problems related to health insurance, such as completing a CMS-1500 claim form or explaining how HIPAA could affect someone recently out of work.
    • Critical thinking activities strengthen students’ abilities to apply health insurance concepts to a variety of challenging situations.
    • Chapter assessments test students’ knowledge with multiple-choice, true/false, short-answer, fill-in-the-blank, and matching questions.
    • Application exercises challenge students to apply their knowledge and skills to real-world situations.
    • Internet Exploration exercises in each chapter help students learn how to perform and evaluate research online.
    • Defining Chapter Terms activities prompt students to review and understand the key terms in each chapter.
    • NEW! Additional content on cybersecurity emphasizes the importance of keeping digital information private and secure.
    • NEW! Information on crowdfunding for medical bills discusses how this practice affects billing.
    • NEW! Interactive VST eBook provides a seamless digital experience.
    • NEW! Coverage of COVID-19 explores its impact on billing, reimbursement, and employment.
  • UNIT ONE: BUILDING A FOUNDATION
    Chapter 1: The Origins of Health Insurance
    Chapter 2: Tools of the Trade: A Career as a Health Insurance (Medical) Professional
    Chapter 3: The Legal and Ethical Side of Health Insurance
    Chapter 4: Healthcare Reform: Coverage Types and Sources
    Chapter 5: The Patient and the Billing Process
    UNIT TWO: HEALTH INSURANCE BASICS
    Chapter 6: Reimbursement Models
    Chapter 7: Understanding Managed Care
    Chapter 8: Understanding Medicare
    Chapter 9: Understanding Medicaid
    Chapter 10: Understanding Military Carriers
    Chapter 11: Understanding Miscellaneous Carriers: Workers’ Compensation and Disability Insurance
    UNIT THREE: CLAIMS SUBMISSION
    Chapter 12: Claim Submission Methods
    Chapter 13: Diagnostic Coding
    Chapter 14: Procedural, Evaluation and Management, and HCPCS Coding
    Chapter 15: Claims Management
    UNIT FOUR: ADVANCED APPLICATION
    Chapter 16: The Role of Computers in Health Insurance
    Chapter 17: Reimbursement Procedures: Getting Paid
    Chapter 18: Hospital Billing and the UB-04
    Appendix: Blank Forms
  • Julie Pepper, BS, CMA (AAMA), Professor Emeritus, Medical Assistant Program, Chippewa Valley Technical College, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
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