Understanding Health Insurance by Michelle Green

Understanding Health Insurance

A Guide to Billing and Reimbursement (with Premium Web Site, 2 Terms (12 Months) Printed Access Card and Cengage Encoderpro.com Demo Printed Access Card)

Michelle Green

Delmar Publishers Inc · Print & ebook · January 1, 2016

Discover the essential tool to prepare for a career in medical insurance billing -- UNDERSTANDING HEALTH INSURANCE, 13E.

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Who it’s for
A working overview of insurance plans, coding systems, reimbursement, and changing health-care rules.
Themes
Medical insurance billing, Reimbursement methods, Health insurance coding
Genres
Medical Coding & Billing, Health Insurance, Practice Management & Billing

About this book

Discover the essential tool to prepare for a career in medical insurance billing -- UNDERSTANDING HEALTH INSURANCE, 13E. This comprehensive, easy-to-understand, updated book presents the latest code sets and guidelines. You cover today’s most important topics, such as managed care, legal and regulatory issues, coding systems, reimbursement methods, medical necessity, and common health insurance plans.

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Updates introduce new legislation that impacts health care, including the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare); ICD-10-CM coding; electronic health records; Medicaid Integrity Contractors; case mix management; hospital-acquired conditions; present on admission; and value-based purchasing. Practice exercises and the workbook (available separately) provides application-based assignments and case studies to reinforce your understanding, as well as CMRS, CPC-P, and CPB Mock Exams. New editions include online access to SimClaim™ CMS-1500 claims completion software and Optum’s EncoderPro.com Expert™.

Billing and Reimbursement

A working overview of insurance plans, coding systems, reimbursement, and changing health-care rules.

Come here for

  • Common health insurance plans
  • Medical necessity and reimbursement methods

Expect

  • Updated code sets and guidelines
  • Practice exercises and case studies in the separately available workbook

Where it sits

Medical Coding & Billing73%
Practice Management & Billing60%
Health Insurance51%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Health Insurance
  • Medicine
  • Medical Administration
  • Allied Health Services
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  • Medical Technology
  • Medical Coding & Billing
  • Practice Management & Billing
Authors
Michelle Green
Publisher
Delmar Publishers Inc
Published
January 1, 2016
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Medical insurance billing · Reimbursement methods · Health insurance coding
Reading lane
Health Insurance