Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office

by Marilyn T. Fordney

Book Overview

A complete guide to insurance billing and coding, Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office, 13th Edition covers all the plans that are most commonly encountered in clinics and physicians' offices. Its emphasis on the role of the medical insurance specialist includes areas such as diagnostic coding, procedural coding, Medicare, HIPAA, and bill collection strategies. Learning to fill in the claim form accurately is made easier by the use...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1455733253
• ISBN13: 9781455733255
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 680 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book for a great price.

The book is excellent to learn from. The chapters are pretty short to read but some have a lot of work in the work book. I think it is a great book to learn from.

A good purchase

The books i ordered were in the time specified & in the condition as promised at the time of purchasing. It was indeed a good purchase.

The book was in great shape for being used.

I was pleased with the book since, it was used. The seller made sure that the book was wrapped well.

Wonderful learning tool

This book gives a lot of information necessary to really understand billing and coding. The number of cases to be worked on and the variety of different types of insurances gives the student a well-rounded sampling of the coding field. This is a comprehensive teaching tool, not for the short term class, but then billing and coding shouldn't be taught quickly. For a real in-depth learning experience, I think this is a great book.

7th Edition pulls itself into the 21st Century

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.