Health insurance today : a practical approach /: a practical approach. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Janet I. Beik.
• Authors: Beik, Janet I
• Contents: The origins of health insurance -- Tools of the trade : a career as a health (medical) insurance professional -- The legal and ethical side of medical insurance -- Types and sources of health insurance -- Claim submission methods -- Traditional fee-for-service/private plans -- Unraveling the mysteries of managed care -- Understanding Medicaid -- Conquering Medicare's challenges -- Military carriers -- Miscellaneous carriers : workers' compensation and disability insurance -- Diagnostic coding -- Procedural, evaluation and management, and HCPCS coding -- The patient -- The claim -- The role of computers in health insurance -- Reimbursement procedures : getting paid -- Hospital billing and the UB-04.
• Edition: Fifth edition
• Publisher Details: St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier/Saunders
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 368.38/200973; Health insurance claims -- United States; Health insurance -- United States; Insurance, Health; Forms and Records Control -- methods; Medical Records Systems, Computerized; Health insurance; Health insurance claims; United States; United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780323262446; 0323262449
• Related ISBNs: 9780323188173
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.