Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office, Seventh Edition [Paperback]

Marilyn Takahashi Fordney (Author), Linda L. French (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 17, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0721695183 | ISBN-13: 978-0721695181 | Edition: 7th

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. The goal of this extremely up-to-date text is to increase efficiency and streamline administrative procedures for the most exasperating aspect of the doctor's office routine: insurance billing. This text offers guidance for all aspects of submitting, tracing, appealing, and transmitting claims for today's full range of health plans. Important coverage of diagnostic coding, procedural coding, office and insurance collection strategies, Medicare, Managed Care, and more is presented. Additionally, a free CD-ROM featuring the HCFA-1500 claim form is included with the book. The CD-ROM contains 10 scored patient case studies with related insurance information so that the student can practice completing the HCFA-1500 claim form in a fun, interactive format.

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The trusted insurance handbook that streamlines administrative procedures and increases office efficiency --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

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

Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Saunders; 7th edition (August 17, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0721695183
• ISBN-13: 978-0721695181
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,243,916 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Lots of info, perhaps too much., October 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office (Book with CD-ROM for Windows) (Paperback)

I felt a little bogged down by all the information contained inthis book. It seemed too detailed and included a lot of stuff thatdidn't really apply to just medical insurance (for example thecomplete hypocratic oath which doctors take)! Overall, it was a pretty good book. It would have been a great book if they had cut out about a third or even half of the information. I thought Guide to Medical Billing, by a company called ICDC was much better. A lot of the pertinent data without too much extra. I also liked a book called The Medical Billing Handbook by Jason Cummings.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent overview of the medical billing task., March 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office (Paperback)

This is an appropriate text for the medical biller. Although written for the office-based biller, home-based billers will find most (but not all) the information of practical benefit. Used in our homestudy course as a standard text.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 7th Edition pulls itself into the 21st Century, September 27, 2001

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KS (Redlands, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office (Book with CD-ROM for Windows) (Paperback)

Having had to wait many weeks for the new, revised 7th Edition I was very pleased to note the improvements made from the 6th Edition. The color examples, universal legend symbols and easy paragraph read for the student are excellent. Another long awaited addition is the expanded Medi-Cal section (applicable to California only). Having been in the industry for 25 year I can say that this is the best Billing book on the market that I have been able to find. The only down side to this book is that it is not written for the "new" biller, but more for an intermediate to experienced biller. As long as the instructor can "dumb down" some of the excellent explanations, students will learn a tremendous amount from this book. I use it in my classroom along with my own material and the students are leaving the class with a well rounded knowledge base. Over all, I am pleased with the new Edition and it's contents.