Workbook for Fordney’s Medical Insurance and Billing, 17th Edition
by Linda M. Smith, CPC, CPC-1, CEMC, CMBS
Paperback
ISBN:
9780443109430
Copyright:
2026
Publication Date:
11-27-2024
Page Count:
400
Imprint:
Saunders
List Price:
$52.99
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Give students the hands-on practice they need to master medical insurance billing and coding! Corresponding to the chapters in Fordney's Medical Insurance and Billing, 17th Edition, this workbook provides realistic exercises that help students apply concepts and develop the skills needed by insurance billing specialists. Assignments allow students to complete common claim forms such as the CMS-1500 and the UB-04 by extracting information from patient records and accurately selecting procedural and diagnostic codes. This edition adds exercises on professionalism, HCPCS coding, and credentialing activities. With this practical workbook, your students will make the most of the Fordney's textbook!
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- NEW HCPCS Coding chapter includes exercises for ambulance billing, supply billing, and more.
- NEW exercises on professionalism cover customer service, conflict management, diversity awareness, leadership, and other competencies to help students become effective, engaged, and highly functioning employees.
- NEW exercises related to billing of automobile and liability insurance.
- Diagnostic, procedural, and HCPCS code exercises provide practice with submitting a claim or making an itemized billing statement.
- Self-study exercises reinforce student understanding with matching, true/false, multiple-choice, mix and match, and fill-in-the-blank questions, as well as critical thinking assignments.
- Study outlines focus review by listing the key points for each chapter.
- Performance objectives make learning easier by highlighting what students need to accomplish in each chapter.
- Key terms and abbreviations at the beginning of each chapter provide a quick reference to need-to-know health insurance terminology.
- Critical Thinking assignments are based on short, real-world vignettes, preparing students to work in a real medical office and allowing them to apply theory learned from the textbook.
- Answers to workbook assignments are provided in the instructor resources available on the Evolve website.
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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, Automobile, and Liability Insurance
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 ICD-10-CM Coding
13 CPT Coding
14 HCPCS Level II Coding
Unit 4 Claims Submission in the Medical Office
15 The Paper Claim CMS 1500
16 The Electronic Claim
Unit 5 Revenue Cycle Management
17 Receiving Payments and Insurance Problem-Solving
18 Collection Strategies
Unit 6 Health Care Facility Billing
19 Introduction to Health Care Facilities and Ambulatory Surgery Centers
20 Billing for Health Care Facilities
Unit 7 Employment
21 Seeking a Job and Attaining Professional Advancement
Key Abbreviations
Glossary
Index
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Linda M. Smith, CPC, CPC-1, CEMC, CMBS, Training and Consulting, MedOffice Resources, Greene, NY, USA