Adams' Coding and Reimbursement - E-Book

Adams' Coding and Reimbursement - E-Book
Author: Wanda Adams
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2008-04-22
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 032327739X

- NEW application exercises help you put your knowledge of coding and reimbursement into practice.

Adams' Coding and Reimbursement

Adams' Coding and Reimbursement
Author: Wanda Adams
Publisher: Mosby
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780323046190

Combining the basics of coding, insurance, and reimbursement in one concise text, this reader-friendly resource is your key to understanding the fundamentals of medical billing and coding. Clearly organized, full-color chapters guide you through the entire coding and claims process, detailing coding rules and applications, insurance guidelines, and the reimbursement system, all accompanied by real-world practice to help you apply what you've learned in the field! Highlighted examples illustrate concepts in realistic medical office settings to enhance your understanding. Coding exercises teach you how to correctly code using the ICD-9-CM and CPT-4 manuals. Test Your Knowledge questions within each chapter help you assess your strengths and weaknesses and prepare for exams. Critical thinking problems challenge you to apply chapter concepts to common coding scenarios. Code It and Claim It! software familiarizes you with a professional coding claim interface similar to programs you'll use on the job and provides real-world practice with actual patient cases. Key term lists and an extensive glossary reinforce your understanding of important coding and insurance terminology. NEW application exercises help you put your knowledge of coding and reimbursement into practice.

Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office

Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office
Author: Marilyn Takahashi Fordney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780721695181

INSURANCE HANDBOOK FOR THE MEDICAL OFFICE is a key text for medical administrative assisting, medical front office programs, or those who wish to become insurance billing specialists, claims assistance professionals, or electronic claims processors for physicians' practices and hospital outpatient clinics. Those already practicing in this area will also find this text beneficial, as will health claims examiner programs. The goal of this extremely up-to-date text is to increase efficiency and streamline administrative procedures for the most exasperating aspect of the doctor's office routine: insurance billing. This text offers guidance for all aspects of submitting, tracing, appealing, and transmitting claims for today's full range of health plans. Important coverage of diagnostic coding, procedural coding, office and insurance collection strategies, Medicare, Managed Care, and more is presented. Additionally, a free CD-ROM featuring the HCFA-1500 claim form is included with the book. The CD-ROM contains 10 scored patient case studies with related insurance information so that the student can practice completing the HCFA-1500 claim form in a fun, interactive format.

Principles of ICD-9-CM Coding

Principles of ICD-9-CM Coding
Author: Deborah J. Grider
Publisher: American Medical Association Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2003
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

This revised training and educational tool helps to simplify learning the ICD-9-CM coding process. Chapters include all areas of ICD-9-CM - from an introduction to the content, format, and coding process, to an in-depth analysis for identifying and locating the most appropriate codes.

Guide to Coding and Reimbursement

Guide to Coding and Reimbursement
Author: Wanda L. Adams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Medical fees
ISBN: 9780323004299

An excellent introduction for beginning coders, this updated guide reinforces information through a series of review questions, case histories, and simple coding problems. The reimbursement section emphasizes the benefits of correct accounting of patient ledgers.

Access for Dialysis

Access for Dialysis
Author: Ingemar J.A. Davidson
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1498712991

This publication is intended as a guide to common diagnostic, operative and percutaneous techniques used in creating and maintaining vascular access for hemodialysis. When writing the text, the authors have focused on surgeons in training, fellows, interventional radiologists and clinically active nephrologists. Dialysis nurses and other clinicians

Study Guide for Kinn's The Administrative Medical Assistant - E-Book

Study Guide for Kinn's The Administrative Medical Assistant - E-Book
Author: Alexandra Patricia Adams
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2010-10-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 032326302X

Get more practice with medical assisting competencies and test your critical thinking skills! Designed to support Kinn's The Administrative Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach, 7th Edition by Alexandra P. Young-Adams, this study guide offers a complete review of content and a wide range of exercises to help you master CAAHEP and ABHES competencies. A variety of exercises test your knowledge and critical thinking skills, including vocabulary review, multiple choice, fill in the blank, and true/false questions. The most current content and competencies associated with CAAHEP and ABHES are included, such as emergency preparedness, patient education, and documentation. Procedure checklists allow you to tear out each sheet and provide to your instructor for evaluation. Exercises are cross-referenced to the Connections themes in your textbook. Additional exercises enhance the learning experience with skills and concepts, word puzzles, case studies, work applications, and Internet activities. English-Spanish terms help bilingual students master the content. Work products may be submitted to your instructor and to accrediting organizations as documentation that a competency has been completed. Expanded coverage of the Electronic Medical Record includes Practice Partner EMR activities for extra practice with this key competency. A companion Evolve website includes A&P exercises with medical animations.