Beik's Health Insurance Today
- 8th Edition - November 20, 2023
- Latest edition
- Author: Julie Pepper
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 8 4 0 0 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 4 1 0 - 7
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Managed Care**Master the complexities of health insurance with this easy-to-understand guide! Beik’s Health Insurance Today, 8th Editi… Read more
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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Managed Care**
Master the complexities of health insurance with this easy-to-understand guide! Beik’s Health Insurance Today, 8th Edition provides a solid foundation in basics such as the types and sources of health insurance, the submission of claims, and the ethical and legal issues surrounding insurance. It follows the claims process from billing and coding to reimbursement procedures, with realistic practice on the Evolve companion website. This edition adds up-to-date coverage of cybersecurity, COVID-19, crowdfunding for medical bills, and cost/value calculators. Making difficult concepts seem anything but, this resource prepares you for a successful career as a health insurance professional.
- Direct, conversational writing style makes learning insurance and billing concepts easier
- Clear and attainable learning objectives, with chapter content that follows the order of the objectives, make learning easier for students and make chapter content easier to teach for educators
- Learning features include review questions, scenarios, and additional exercises to ensure comprehension, critical thought, and application to practice
- Hands-on practice with a fillable CMS-1500 form and accompanying case studies and unique UB-04 forms on the companion Evolve website, ensure practicum- and job-readiness
- HIPAA Tips emphasize the importance of privacy and government rules and regulations, ensuring a solid foundation in regulatory compliance
UNIT I BUILDING A FOUNDATION
1. The Origins of Health Insurance
2. Tools of the Trade: A Career as a Health Insurance Professional
3. The Legal and Ethical Side of Health Insurance
4. Healthcare Reform: Coverage Types and Sources
5. The Patient and the Billing Process
UNIT II HEALTH INSURANCE BASICS
6. Reimbursement Models
7. Understanding Managed Care
8. Understanding Medicare
9. Understanding Medicaid
10. Understanding Military Carriers
11. Understanding Miscellaneous Carriers: Workers’ Compensation and Disability Insurance
UNIT III CLAIMS SUBMISSION
12. Claim Submission Methods
13. Diagnostic Coding
14. Procedural, Evaluation and Management, and HCPCS Coding
15. Claims Management
UNIT IV ADVANCED APPLICATION
16. The Role of Computers in Health Insurance
17. Reimbursement Procedures: Getting Paid
18. Hospital Billing and the UB-04
Appendix
A: Sample Blank CMS-1500 (02/12)
B: CMS-1500 Claim Forms and Completion Instructions
C: UB-04 Claim Forms and Completion Instructions
1. The Origins of Health Insurance
2. Tools of the Trade: A Career as a Health Insurance Professional
3. The Legal and Ethical Side of Health Insurance
4. Healthcare Reform: Coverage Types and Sources
5. The Patient and the Billing Process
UNIT II HEALTH INSURANCE BASICS
6. Reimbursement Models
7. Understanding Managed Care
8. Understanding Medicare
9. Understanding Medicaid
10. Understanding Military Carriers
11. Understanding Miscellaneous Carriers: Workers’ Compensation and Disability Insurance
UNIT III CLAIMS SUBMISSION
12. Claim Submission Methods
13. Diagnostic Coding
14. Procedural, Evaluation and Management, and HCPCS Coding
15. Claims Management
UNIT IV ADVANCED APPLICATION
16. The Role of Computers in Health Insurance
17. Reimbursement Procedures: Getting Paid
18. Hospital Billing and the UB-04
Appendix
A: Sample Blank CMS-1500 (02/12)
B: CMS-1500 Claim Forms and Completion Instructions
C: UB-04 Claim Forms and Completion Instructions
- Edition: 8
- Latest edition
- Published: November 20, 2023
- Language: English
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Julie Pepper
Julie Pepper has spent her entire career in health care as a medical assistant in a variety of offices and clinics, developing expertise in the electronic health record and as an instructor in a medical assistant program. She combines her education in dietetics with her clinical and administrative experience as an instructor in the Medical Assisting program at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Wisconsin, where she taught for 21 years and from where she retired from teaching. Julie was also the program director for the college’s Health Navigator program. She has served as a reviewer and contributor to numerous Medical Assisting educational products over the last decade, including Sim Chart for the Medical Office. She currently serves as the sole author of The Electronic Health Record for the Physician’s Office and The Simulated Administrative Medical Office. She has been leading author of Beik's Health Insurance Today text and workbook since the 8th edition. She also has been a coauthor for Kinn’s Medical Assisting Fundamentals, Kinn’s The Medical Assistant, and Today’s Medical Assistant. Julie strives to bring the needed information to students in a way to keep them interested in learning all that they need to be wonderful employees working in healthcare.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Medical Assistant Program, Chippewa Valley Technical College, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA