Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office, Seventh Edition

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. This text offers guidance for all aspects of submitting, tracing, appealing, and transmitting claims for today's full range of health plans. Includes a free CD-ROM that contains 10 scored patient casestudies with related insurance information so that the studentcan practice in an interactive format.

This edition of the Fordney text is full colour (and is the first text in this discipline to use this format). This full-color format will help the students identify each insurance payer with a specific color and icon, thus making the learning process more effective.

The text has been updated to reflect recent changes in procedural coding for government programs and the private sector.

Also in this edition, the text has been completely rewritten by the author to emphasize procedural (CPT and HCPCS) and diagnostic (ICD-9-CM) coding and documentation which are the keystones to obtaining maximum reimbursement.

Marilyn Takahashi Fordney, CMA-AC, CMT, Formerly Instructor of Medical Insurance, Medical Terminology, Medical Machine Transcription, and Medical Office Procedures, Ventura College, Ventura, CA