Product Description

A Guide to Health Insurance Billing takes the normally "dry" topic of insurance billing and makes it user-friendly and engaging. All aspects of the billing process, from key terms to state and federal regulations to guidelines for completing and submitting claims to health insurance programs, are written in clear direct language that is easily understood. Numerous real world examples, review exercises and simulations throughout the text clarify difficult concepts and give users the opportunity of applying learned material. · An introduction to the new coding systems, ICD-10. · ICD-9-CM and CPT coding systems are explained using the most current information · Health insurance simulation and coding exercises put users in a realistic insurance billing environment · Managed care and its impact on health insurance billing is covered in a special chapter · Accompanying CD-ROM provides additional application exercises for HCFA-1500 completion and coding · Chapter on the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) introduces readers to this commonly used method of claim submission (KEYWORDS: insurance, billing, coding, entry-level, ICD-9, CPT, HCPCS, exercises, user-friendly, educational programs, insurance claims, key concepts, health insurance)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #794958 in Books
• Published on: 2000-12-08
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

About the Author
An instructor in the Department of Office Systems and Business Education at Northern Michigan University and has over 8 years of teaching experience. Additionally, Ms. Moisio has approximately 10 years experience as a director and consultant in medical records at several health care institutions.

Customer Reviews

Easy to Understand
I knew nothing about health insurance. This book is definitely worth the money. What makes it stand out is there are examples they give to make it more clear, as well as a CD and test questions.

Excellent step-by-step introduction to electronic medical billing
The book presents medical billing employment opportunities, discusses biller's qualifications, introduces the ICD-9 and CPT concepts, teaches how to develop a claim, guides the completion of HCFA forms, discusses electronic data interchange, and offers separate chapters on managed care, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Medicare, Medicaid, and workers compensation. Each chapter includes key terms and learning objectives as well as reinforcement exercises and examples designed to help learning the basics of insurance billing.

An excellent entry-level text for those learning about the insurance billing process.

Yuval Lirov, Medical Billing Networks and Processes - Profitable and Compliant Revenue Cycle Management in the Internet Age

insurance abilling
Just as advertised; I just hadn't checked the publish date--2001. I need to be more astute.