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Winner of the Text and Academic Authors Association’s 2003 Textbook Excellence Award! This completely new full-color worktext presents all aspects of submitting, tracing, appealing, and transmitting claims for today’s full range of health plans. Distilled from the comprehensive textbook, Fordney’s Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office, this essentials text features a streamlined approach to key topics - including documentation in a medical office, Example boxes, colorful illustrations, and an appendix that uses color-coded payer icons to teach readers how to complete the HCFA-1500 form. Self-study workbook sections and practice exercises incorporated throughout the book make it easy to learn diagnostic coding, procedural coding, office and insurance collection strategies, Medicare considerations, and more.
Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Chapter 1 A Career as an Insurance Billing Specialist
- Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Health Insurance Coverage
- Chapter 3 Source Documents and the Insurance Claim Cycle
- Chapter 4 Coding Diagnoses
- Chapter 5 Coding Procedures Part I: Introduction and Evaluation and Management Services
- Chapter 6 Coding Procedures Part II: Anesthesia, Surgery, Radiology, Pathology/Laboratory, and Medicine
- Chapter 7 Documentation and the Medical Record
- Chapter 8 The Health Insurance Claim Form: Completion and Submission
- Chapter 9 Fees: Private Insurance and Managed Care
- Chapter 10 The Medicaid Program
- Chapter 11 The Medicare Program
- Chapter 12 The TRICARE and CHAMPVA Programs
- Chapter 13 Workers' Compensation Specialist Orthopedics
- Chapter 14 Patient Billing: Credit and Collection Practices
- Chapter 15 Tracking Reimbursement
- Appendices
