Medical insurance
Subtitle: an integrated claims process approach
By: Joanne Valerius ... [et al.].
Contributors: Valerius, Joanne.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9780073402031
Subjects: Health insurance; Health insurance claims -- United States; Health insurance -- United States; Insurance, Health -- United States; Insurance Claim Reporting -- United States
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the medical billing process; title: HIPAA and medical records; title: Patient encounters and billing information; title: Diagnostic coding : introduction to ICD-9-CM; title: Procedural coding : introduction to CPT; title: Procedural coding : introduction to HCPCS; title: Visit charges and compliant billing; title: Health care claim preparation and transmission; title: Private payers/Blue Cross and Blue Shield; title: Medicare; title: Medicaid; title: TRICARE and CHAMPVA; title: Workers' compensation and disability; title: Payments (RAs/EOBs), appeals, and secondary claims; title: Patient billing and collections; title: Hospital billing and reimbursement; title: Primary case studies; title: RA/EOB/secondary case studies.