Medical insurance :

Medical insurance : an integrated claims process approach / Joanne Valerius ... [et al.]. - 3rd ed. - Boston : McGraw Hill Higher Education, c2008. - xxviii, 676 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

Includes index.

Introduction to the medical billing process -- HIPAA and medical records -- Patient encounters and billing information -- Diagnostic coding : introduction to ICD-9-CM -- Procedural coding : introduction to CPT -- Procedural coding : introduction to HCPCS -- Visit charges and compliant billing -- Health care claim preparation and transmission -- Private payers/Blue Cross and Blue Shield -- Medicare -- Medicaid -- TRICARE and CHAMPVA -- Workers' compensation and disability -- Payments (RAs/EOBs), appeals, and secondary claims -- Patient billing and collections -- Hospital billing and reimbursement -- Primary case studies -- RA/EOB/secondary case studies.

9780073521916 (alk. paper) 0073521914 (alk. paper)

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Health insurance.
Health insurance claims--United States.
Health insurance--United States.
Insurance, Health--United States.
Insurance Claim Reporting--United States.

HG9383 / .B39 2008

368.38/2

W 100 / M489 2010