Medical Insurance Billling and Coding: An Essentials Worktext

By Carol J. Buck, Linda L. French, Marilyn T. Fordney

Book Overview

Winner of the Text and Academic Authors Association's 2003 Textbook Excellence Award This completely new full-color worktext presents all aspects of submitting, tracing, appealing, and transmitting claims for today's full range of health plans. Distilled from the comprehensive textbook, Fordney's Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office, this essentials text features a streamlined approach to key topics - including documentation in a medical office, Example boxes, colorful illustrations, and an appendix that uses color-coded payer icons to teach readers how to complete the HCFA-1500 form. Self-study workbook sections and practice exercises incorporated throughout the book make it easy to learn diagnostic coding, procedural coding, office and insurance collection strategies, Medicare considerations, and more. A companion CD-ROM and website offer additional practice and interactive learning opportunities Combined text and workbook format keeps the content self-contained and easy to manage.Full-color format allows readers to identify colors and icons with individual payers, helping them to easily follow and learn specific payer rules and procedures.An appendix of block-by-block coverage, with full-color examples of the HCFA-1500 insurance claim form, facilitates understanding and effective learning.Photographs, quotes, and short biographies of real insurance billing specialists appear in each chapter, offering real-world perspectives on insurance billing.A separate chapter on documentation in the medical office is devoted to this critical topic.Exercise sections within the text encourage readers to stop and recall or apply what they've learned to help master key concepts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721695167
• ISBN13: 9780721695167
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

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billing and coding

this is an excellent book to have if your going to be a medical specialist and that is what I am studying for. I am so happy I bought this book.

Very thorough textbook

I have been teaching Insurance Billing and Coding for over 5 years and have used this text to teach my Insurance Billing and Coding classes over the past two years. I believe that this text is very thorough. While there are a few small guidelines that are not accurate, it definitely exceeds other texts in accuracy. Another reviewer stated that this text discusses Medicare Part C and he/she said that it didn't exist. It does exist and is discussed at length, both in the text and on the CMS website. The only negative thing that I would say about it is that it doesn't cover coding as well as I would have liked. I generally have to use another text to supplement this text in order to enable my students to practice coding skills with more precision.