The smarter physician.
By: by Bhagwan Satiani.
Contributors: Medical Group Management Association.
Publisher: Medical Group Management Association
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Englewood, CO
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781568292861
Subjects: Medical fees; Health insurance claims -- Data processing; Medicine -- Practice -- Accounting; Medicine -- Practice -- Finance; Medical offices -- Management; Financial Management -- organization & administration -- United States; Patient Credit and Collection -- organization & administration -- United States; Insurance Claim Reporting -- United States; Insurance, Health, Reimbursement -- United States; Practice Management, Medical -- organization & administration -- United States
Other titles: Conquering your practice's billing and reimbursement
Description: "This book, a tool for practice managers and physicians, dissects the nuts and bolts of a medical practice. Among other topics, the book reviews the revenue cycle, reimbursement, billing, and cost/volume/profit analysis; shows how Medicare measures clinical activity; and discusses pay for performance"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The revenue cycle / by Ray Manley; title: The private insurance system; title: How medicare works; title: Getting paid. Part I: Introduction to coding and the global surgical package / by Rebecca Dawson; title: Getting paid. Part II: The resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS), medicare physician fee schedule and other payment mechanisms; title: Financial statements : what they are and what they tell us / by Ann Gabriel; title: Using financial statements to make decisions / by Ann Gabriel; title: Measuring profit and loss : the roles of cost and volume measurements; title: Models, methods, and philosophies; title: "Pay for performance" : a work in progress.