Health insurance today :
Beik, Janet I.
Health insurance today : a practical approach / Janet I. Beik. - 3rd ed. - St. Louis, MO : Elsevier/Saunders, 2011. - xxix, 495 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The origins of health insurance -- Tools of the trade : a career as a health (medical) insurance professional -- The legal and ethical side of medical insurance -- Types and sources of health insurance -- The universal claim form : CMS-1500 -- Traditional fee-for-service/private plans -- Unraveling the mysteries of managed care -- Understanding Medicaid -- Conquering Medicare's challenges -- Military carriers -- Miscellaneous carriers : workers' compensation and disability insurance -- Diagnostic coding -- Procedural, evaluation and management, and HCPCS coding -- The patient -- The claim -- The role of computers in health insurance -- Reimbursement procedures : getting paid -- Hospital billing and the UB-04.
9781437717709 1437717705 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010013350
101527412 DNLM
Health insurance claims--United States.
Health insurance--United States.
Insurance, Health.
Forms and Records Control--methods.
Medical Records Systems, Computerized.
HG9386.5 / BEI 2011
368.38/200973
W 100 / BEI 2011
Health insurance today : a practical approach / Janet I. Beik. - 3rd ed. - St. Louis, MO : Elsevier/Saunders, 2011. - xxix, 495 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The origins of health insurance -- Tools of the trade : a career as a health (medical) insurance professional -- The legal and ethical side of medical insurance -- Types and sources of health insurance -- The universal claim form : CMS-1500 -- Traditional fee-for-service/private plans -- Unraveling the mysteries of managed care -- Understanding Medicaid -- Conquering Medicare's challenges -- Military carriers -- Miscellaneous carriers : workers' compensation and disability insurance -- Diagnostic coding -- Procedural, evaluation and management, and HCPCS coding -- The patient -- The claim -- The role of computers in health insurance -- Reimbursement procedures : getting paid -- Hospital billing and the UB-04.
9781437717709 1437717705 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010013350
101527412 DNLM
Health insurance claims--United States.
Health insurance--United States.
Insurance, Health.
Forms and Records Control--methods.
Medical Records Systems, Computerized.
HG9386.5 / BEI 2011
368.38/200973
W 100 / BEI 2011