Product Title:
Medical Insurance Billing & Coding: An Essentials Worktext
Description:
need into know this whole new Essentials text has all the information in the extensive book, Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office in an easily accessible & focused format! It covers the main aspects of the template, tracing, appealing, & transmitting claims for today’s full range of health plans. Important issues such as diagnostic coding, procedural programming, office & insurance collection strategies & Medicare will be brought & placed in full color. Like the larger book, this text features a chapter on the documentation in a medical practice, as well as boxes, full-color graphics & an entire chapter on how the HCFA-1500 form, complete with color coded icons payers. These symbols help students identify each insurance payer with the relevant information required by the payer in each field of the application form.
I teach, have taught this text to my insurance billing and Insurance Billing and Coding for over five years and used coding classes in the past two years. I think that this text is very thorough. While there are a few small guidelines that are incorrect, it is definitely more than other texts in accuracy.
Another reviewer stated that this text discusses Medicare Part C and he ‘she said, they do not exist. It exists and is discussed in detail, both in text and on the CMS website.
The only negative thing I would say about it is that it is not for coding as well as I would have wished. I have usually use to another text to supplement the text, so that my students programming skills with more precision practice.
Rating: 5.4
Let me first say, I spent eight months in the vocational school, a 90% achieved on my certification exam, and now teach medical insurance billing for a living. My school requires that I use Fordney textbook, so I use it. But I add it heavily with McGraw-Hill’s “Medical Insurance” textbook, one of the best textbooks that I will ever read.
Fordney textbook contains some important errors, has no introductory chapter has a lousy glossary, and makes an already difficult subject even more confusing. I understand this issue quite well, but I am confused after reading your textbook!
Here are some examples of what I mean: (1) Fordney says there are 17 different types of health insurance. In reality, most of them can be made of four categories: individual, group, managed care and government programs in one. Some Fordney’s “Categories” are not even insurance programs! (2) Fordney says a “minor” can be a student. Well, a minor is a person who is under the age of 18, and can make their own decisions about medical care _and_pay_their_own_way_. Most students are over 18 years, and rely on their parents for funding, at least in the early years. A 17-year-old college student who pays her or his own way is the rare exception, not the rule. (3) Fordney says people need to register for Medicare benefits, and that the time of the year to sign-up is important. In reality, most people automatically in Medicare Part A, within 3 months of their 65th Birthday. People who are totally disabled before their 65th Birthday have signs up, but that is usually treated by their doctor or lawyer in the event of disability. Those who have worked less than 10 years, or had not taken performance of the social security of their paychecks, you can log on. And some foreign individuals can log on. But again, these are the rare exceptions, not the rule. Basically gets Fordney of the registration rules for Medicare Part B with Medicare Part A confused and makes no distinction between parts A and B if they are in practice completely different. Most notably, enrollment in Medicare Part A automatically paid by the Social Security Act, and only covers some hospital and home care (eg hospice). Medicare Part B is the only choice, to be paid individually for each month, and covers office visits, some preventive care services, and basically cover what most individual health insurance. (4) Fordney thinks it’s a Medicare Part C. The problem is, none of the two major Medicare website (http://www. Cms. HHS. Gov., and http://www. Medicare. Gov) know about it! Okay, it does not really exist: Fordney opened it. Technically, there is a Medicare Part D, the new prescription drug benefit introduced in late 2004, and this goes into effect January 2006. But both websites containing Medicare under Medicare Part B.
It is embarrassing to me that Marilyn Fordney and I have the same credentials. . .
Rating: 5.1
Item was easy to find and I have the book at a fraction of the cost. It came in about a week in good condition. I can not complain. I want more text books like that order.
Rating: 5.5
This was my first time ordering from Amazon and I was totally with the textbook, delivery and above all the price is very happy. I will always check Amazon before you pay the full price for excess material at the university bookstore. Thank you for your professionalism.
Rating: 5.5
This is an excellent book to have if you go to a specialist, and that is what I am to study. I’m so glad I bought this book.
Rating: 5.5