Health insurance today
Subtitle: a practical approach
By: Janet I. Beik
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Elsevier/Saunders
Published: 2011
Place of publication: St. Louis, MO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9781437717709
Subjects: Health Insurance; Forms and Records Control; Methods; Health insurance claims; Computerized Medical Records Systems; Health insurance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of health insurance; title: Tools of the trade : a career as a health (medical) insurance professional; title: The legal and ethical side of medical insurance; title: Types and sources of health insurance; title: The universal claim form : CMS-1500; title: Traditional fee-for-service/private plans; title: Unraveling the mysteries of managed care; title: Understanding Medicaid; title: Conquering Medicare's challenges; title: Military carriers; title: Miscellaneous carriers : workers' compensation and disability insurance; title: Diagnostic coding; title: Procedural, evaluation and management, and HCPCS coding; title: The patient; title: The claim; title: The role of computers in health insurance; title: Reimbursement procedures : getting paid; title: Hospital billing and the UB-04.