
Understanding Health Insurance: A Guide to Billing and Reimbursement, 8E is a comprehensive source for teaching the subject of health insurance and reimbursement. The book contains chapters on common health insurance plans, reimbursement and legal issues, separate chapters on coding systems, and introductory information on the health insurance field. Each chapter contains review exercises to reinforce the understanding of content. Numerous opportunities are provided throughout the book for manual completion of claims, and CD-ROM technology accompanies the book to allow for electronic data entry of CMS-1500 claim form information and review questions in objective format (e.g., multiple choice) to allow learners to reinforce learning of book content. Appendices provide instruction in dental claims processing, and completion of the UB-92 (claim used for inpatient and outpatient hospital claims). A workbook is available to provide application-based assignments for each chapter, additional content review (multiple choice format), practice in completing claims. This edition of the book contains the most up-to-date information regarding health insurance claims processing and coding & reimbursement issues.
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