Health Insurance Today: A Practical Approach - Softcover

Beik AA BA MEd, Janet I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1455708194 ISBN 13: 9781455708192

Publisher: Saunders, 2012

Synopsis

With an emphasis on preparing and filing claims electronically, Health Insurance Today, 4th Edition features completely updated content on ICD-10 coding, ARRA, HI-TECH, Version 5010, electronic health records, the Health Insurance Reform Act, and more. The friendly writing style and clear learning objectives help you understand and retain important information, with review questions and activities that encourage critical thinking and practical application of key concepts.

• Clear, attainable learning objectives help you focus on the most important information.
• What Did You Learn? review questions allow you to ensure you understand the material already presented before moving on to the next section.
• Direct, conversational writing style makes reading fun and concepts easier to understand.
• Imagine This! scenarios help you understand how information in the book applies to real-life situations.
• Stop and Think exercises challenge you to use your critical thinking skills to solve a problem or answer a question.
• HIPAA Tips emphasize the importance of privacy and following government rules and regulations.
• Chapter summaries relate to learning objectives, provide a thorough review of key content, and allow you to quickly find information for further review.

• More content on electronic medical records to reflect the future of record-keeping
• Thoroughly updated chapters include more in-depth information and guidelines on achieving and succeeding in a health insurance career
• Revised information covering the latest Medicare updates keeps you in-step with the latest Medicare practices
• Chapters include more content on ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, and updates to the CPT and HCPCS so you know all the latest information in the field

• Medisoft Activities on the Evolve Learning Resource site help to reinforce information and provide additional opportunities for practice

About this title

About the Author

Janet Beik has degrees in business and higher education. Janet was an instructor in the Medical Assistant Program at Southeastern Community College, in West Burlington, Iowa, for several years. She authored the first edition of her book, Health Insurance Today in 2003, and the 7th edition has just published.

Edition details

• Publisher: Saunders
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1455708194
• ISBN 13: 9781455708192
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 512