Understanding Health Insurance: A Guide to Billing and Reimbursement

Understanding Health Insurance: A Guide to Billing and Reimbursement

Discover the essential learning tool to prepare for a career in medical insurance billing -- Green’s UNDERSTANDING HEALTH INSURANCE, 13E. This comprehensive, easy-to-understand book is fully updated with the latest code sets and guidelines. Readers cover today’s most important topics, such as managed care, legal and regulatory issues, coding systems, reimbursement methods, medical necessity, and common health insurance plans. Updates throughout this edition present new legislation that impacts health care, including the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare); ICD-10-CM coding; electronic health records; Medicaid Integrity Contractors; and concepts related to case mix management, hospital-acquired conditions, present on admission, and value-based purchasing. Practice exercises in each chapter provide plenty of review to reinforce understanding.<br /><b>Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version. </b></br>