Medical billing 101
By: Michelle M. Rimmer.
Publisher: Thomson Delmar Learning
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Clifton Park, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781418039752
Subjects: Medical fees; Nosology -- Code numbers; Health insurance claims; Fees and Charges -- United States; Forms and Records Control -- United States; Patient Credit and Collection -- United States; Practice Management -- economics -- United States; Reimbursement Mechanisms -- United States
Genres: Code numbers.
Other titles: Medical billing one hundred one
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Your job as a physician-based medical biller; title: Health insurance and the identification card; title: The codes (CPT, HCPCS level II, ICD-9, and modifiers); title: The forms (patient registration, superbill, and hospital sheet); title: The heart of medical billing: the CMS-1500 form; title: Billing for office services and procedures; title: Billing for in-patient and nursing facility services; title: Electronic claims submissions and clearinghouses; title: EOBs and payments; title: Denials and appeals; title: Maintaining accounts receivable, aging reports, and rebilling; title: Collections and the state insurance commissioner.