Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office
- ISBN13: 9781416036661
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
- Notes:
Product DescriptionTrusted 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. Procedural (CPT and HCPCS) and diagnostic (ICD-9-CM) coding and documentation are emphasized, since they are the keystones to obtaining maximum reimbursement. Key terms are bolded at first mention, explained within the context of the discussion, and defined in the glossary. Separate chapters on Electronic Data Interchange and HIPAA Compliance and Privacy in Insura. . . More >>
Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office
March 11th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
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.
Rating: 4 / 5
March 11th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Purchased this book for a HCC Medical office Procedures class. Very helpful information, and easy to follow.
Rating: 4 / 5
March 11th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
This book is really easy to follow. I am using this book in one of my classes and so far I like the explanations of the terms that this book/
Fast shipping.
Rating: 5 / 5
March 11th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
I was pleased with the book since, it was used. The seller made sure that the book was wrapped well.
Rating: 5 / 5
March 11th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
This book and the accompanying workbook were the textbooks for a medical billing and insurance class. As a student with little prior exposure, I found them to be badly organized and badly written. The author jumps between topics, assumes inconsistent knowledge (sometimes leaving things unexplained and other times almost insulting the reader’s intelligence), and confuses things with extraneous information. Information that would be better presented in an appendix often clutters the text, as if the author couldn’t separate the necessary basics from the exceptions. Figures and charts are separated from the text that accompanies them, requiring much flipping of pages. Many of the workbook questions are ambiguous, lacking sufficient information to derive an answer. The prose is convoluted and reads more like a stream of consciousness than a concise teaching instrument. You will also need access to the relevant coding books, as there are few pages from which to practice abstracting and finding correct codes. This is actually understandable, since there are so many coding books and they contain so much information; however, the author could have chosen a specific group of related conditions and their range of treatments, and printed the relevant sections in an appendix for practice. Until issues like these are fixed, I recommend finding a different text.
Rating: 1 / 5
May 24th, 2010 at 8:38 pm
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