Understanding Health Insurance
A Guide to Professional Billing
6th Edition
Published on 20. June 2001
Book
Mixed media product
624 pages
978-0-7668-3206-0 (ISBN)
Description
A comprehensive guide to health insurance claim processing that contains pertinent information on common health insurance plans, and coding systems, reimbursement issues, and step-by-step instructions for HCFA-1500 claim completion. CD-ROM in text and accompanying workbook provide additional opportunities to apply material and practice in completing HCFA-1500 forms. Contains new information regarding ICD-10-CM and HCFA reimbursement issues. (key words: health care insurance, HCFA-1500, Insurance claim form)
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Edition
6th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Clifton Park
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 272 mm
Width: 213 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1375 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7668-3206-0 (9780766832060)
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Content
Unit 1 - Health Insurance Specialist-Roles and Responsibilities. Unit 2 - Introduction to Health Insurance. Unit 3 - Managed Health Care. Unit 4 - Life Cycle of an Insurance Claim. Unit 5 - Legal Considerations. Unit 6 - Diagnosis Coding - ICD-9-CM. Unit 7 - CPT Procedure Coding. Unit 8 - HCPCS Coding System. Unit 9 - HCFA Reimbursement Issues. Unit 10 - Coding from Source Documents. Unit 11 - Essential Claim Form Instructions. Unit 12 - Filing Commercial Claims. Unit 13 - Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans. Unit 14 - Medicare.