Health insurance today : a practical approach / Janet I. Beik

Unit 1 - Building a foundation -- Chapter 1: The origins of health onsurance -- Chapter 2: Tools of the trade: A career as health (Medical) Insurance Professional -- Chapter 3: The legal and ethical side of medical insurance -- Chapter 4: Types and sources of health insurance -- Unit 2 - Health insurance basics -- Chaoter 5: The "Universal: claim forms: CMS-1500 -- Chapter 6: Traditional fee-for-service/private plans -- Chapter 7: Unraveling the mysteries of managed care -- Chapter 8: Understanding medicaid -- Chapter 9: Conquering medicare's challenges -- Chapter 10: Military carriers: Worker's compensation and disability insurance -- Unit 3 - Cracking the codes -- Chapter 12: Diagnostic coding -- Chapter 13: Procedural, evaluation and management, and HCPCS coding -- Unit 4 - The claim process -- Chapter 14: The patient -- Chapter 15: The claim -- Unit 5 - Advanced application -- Chapter 16: The role of computers in health insurance -- Chapter 17: Reimbursement procedures: Getting paid -- Chapter 18: Hospital billing and the UB-04 -- Appendix: Blank forms to be reproduced.

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