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Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office | 
| Author: Marilyn Fordney
Publisher: Saunders
Category: Book
List Price: $81.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 40610
Media: Paperback
Edition: 10
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 736
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 1416036660
Dewey Decimal Number: 368.38002461
EAN: 9781416036661
ASIN: 1416036660
Publication Date: November 7, 2007
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Product Description
Trusted by medical insurance specialists for more than 30 years, Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office helps you excel at all aspects of insurance billing for a full range of today's health care plans. This edition helps you keep pace with industry changes, featuring the latest information on HIPAA regulations, diagnostic coding, procedural coding, office and insurance collection strategies, Medicare, and more. The accompanying Student Workbook with CD-ROM (sold separately) lets you practice "real world" billing with patient simulations using Altapoint and the Student Software Challenge.brbrulliProcedural (CPT and HCPCS) and diagnostic (ICD-9-CM) coding and documentation are emphasized, since they are the keystones to obtaining maximum reimbursement./liliKey terms are bolded at first mention, explained within the context of the discussion, and defined in the glossary./liliSeparate chapters on Electronic Data Interchange and HIPAA Compliance and Privacy in Insurance Billing provide essential knowledge of electronic claims filing, informing you of submission guidelines used in the majority of medical offices today./liliIcons clearly identify each insurance payer with a specific color and graphic, making specific information easy to locate./liliCompliance features located at appropriate points throughout most chapters offer tips to ensure compliance with correct billing and coding practice, particularly HIPAA and OIG./liliA separate chapter on documentation in the medical office describes how proper documentation can prevent penalties and refund requests, and help you prove compliance in the case of an audit or review./liliDetailed examples and samples of completed insurance forms show you how to apply knowledge in the real world./liliEmphasis on the business of running a medical office highlights the importance of the medical insurance specialist's role in filing clean claims, solving problems that do occur, and collecting overdue payments./liliService to Patient feature throughout the chapters focuses on ways to provide quality service to the patient as well as your co-workers./li/ulbrbrulliAll content has been reviewed by industry experts and meticulously updated to reflect recent changes in insurance claim filing./liliIn addition to the list of key terms at the beginning of each chapter, a separate list of key abbreviations clarifies common terms identified in the field primarily by their abbreviations./liliKey points at the end of each chapter briefly summarize important chapter content to help you better understand the subject matter./li/ul
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 Do not purchase from this seller! Never Received! October 24, 2008
I never received the Medical book I purchased. The money was taken out of my account. I have e-mailed the seller twice without response. I will not purchase through Amazon again.
 insurance handbook for the medical office January 25, 2006
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
I was very disappointed in the 9th revision. Although the HIPAA compliance and e-commerce sections have been updated, the material in the workbook is exactly the same. That includes all the same editing errors from the last edition. I spend hours of my time "re-writing" these editions when they should be correct at publication. The same ICD-9 and CPT errors are still there. I am seriously thinking of changing books for my school.
 not bad September 25, 2005
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
the seller send the book very soon but she give me a wrong one, and then she send me another one, but it was lost in the way. Although she returned my money, but I took a course two weeks without textbook.
7th Edition pulls itself into the 21st Century September 27, 2001
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
Having had to wait many weeks for the new, revised 7th Edition I was very pleased to note the improvements made from the 6th Edition. The color examples, universal legend symbols and easy paragraph read for the student are excellent. Another long awaited addition is the expanded Medi-Cal section (applicable to California only). Having been in the industry for 25 year I can say that this is the best Billing book on the market that I have been able to find. The only down side to this book is that it is not written for the new biller, but more for an intermediate to experienced biller. As long as the instructor can dumb down some of the excellent explanations, students will learn a tremendous amount from this book. I use it in my classroom along with my own material and the students are leaving the class with a well rounded knowledge base. Over all, I am pleased with the new Edition and it's contents.
Lots of info, perhaps too much. October 12, 1999
35 out of 38 found this review helpful
I felt a little bogged down by all the information contained inthis book. It seemed too detailed and included a lot of stuff thatdidn't really apply to just medical insurance (for example thecomplete hypocratic oath which doctors take)! Overall, it was a pretty good book. It would have been a great book if they had cut out about a third or even half of the information. I thought Guide to Medical Billing, by a company called ICDC was much better. A lot of the pertinent data without too much extra. I also liked a book called The Medical Billing Handbook by Jason Cummings.
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