Understanding Health Insurance: A Guide to Billing and Reimbursement (with Premium Website, 2 terms (12 months) Printed Access Card for Cengage EncoderPro.com Demo) - Softcover

Green, Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1285737520 ISBN 13: 9781285737522

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2014

Synopsis

Understanding Health Insurance, 12th Edition, is the essential learning tool your students need when preparing for a career in medical insurance billing. This comprehensive and easy-to-understand text is fully-updated with the latest code sets and guidelines, and covers important topics in the field like managed care, legal and regulatory issues, coding systems, reimbursement methods, medical necessity, and common health insurance plans. The twelfth edition has been updated to include new legislation that affects healthcare, ICD-10-CM coding, implementing the electronic health record, the Medical Integrity Program (MIP), medical review process, and more. The practice exercises in each chapter provide plenty of review, and the workbook (available separately) provides even more application-based assignments and additional case studies for reinforcement. Includes free online SimClaim™ CMS-1500 claims completion software, and free-trial access to Optum's EncoderPro.com--Expert encoder software.

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Michelle Green has been a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Health Information Technology Department at Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, New York, since 2017. She also serves as an adjunct faculty member for the Health Information Management Department at Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner, Massachusetts. Ms. Green held the position of SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Physical and Life Sciences Department at the State University of New York, College of Technology for more than 30 years. An active member of the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) and American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), Ms. Green has been recognized both for her excellence in teaching and for her significant contributions to the health information management profession. She has earned numerous awards, including the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Alfred State College's Alumni Association Teacher of the Year, Who's Who Among America's Teachers, and AHIMA's FORE Triumph Educator Award. Ms. Green is a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA), a Fellow of the American Health Information Management Association (FAHIMA), and a Certified Procedural Coder (CPC). She earned an M.P.S. degree from Alfred University and a B.S. from Daemen College. Ms. Green has authored three successful textbooks related to coding, revenue management, and health information management.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1285737520
• ISBN 13: 9781285737522
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 832