Medical Insurance Online for Fordney’s Medical Insurance and Billing
- 17th Edition - November 27, 2024
- Latest edition
- Author: Linda M. Smith
- Language: English
Realistic online practice helps you master skills in medical insurance billing and coding! Corresponding to the chapters in Fordney’s Medical Insurance and Billing, Seventee… Read more
Purchase options
Description
Description
Realistic online practice helps you master skills in medical insurance billing and coding! Corresponding to the chapters in Fordney’s Medical Insurance and Billing, Seventeenth Edition, Medical Insurance Online provides review and practice in key areas such as paper and electronic claims, Medicare, diagnostic and procedural coding, abstracting information from a patient’s record, and collection strategies. Exercises and activities let you apply insurance concepts to common billing and coding tasks, and gradable quizzes and exams measure your learning. With 21 dynamic learning modules, MIO ensures that you will make an easier transition from the classroom to the workplace.
Key features
Key features
- NEW HCPCS Coding module includes exercises and activities for ambulance billing, supply billing, and certificates of medical necessity
- NEW content on professionalism covers customer service, conflict management, diversity awareness, leadership, and other competencies to help you become an effective, engaged, and highly functioning employee
- NEW! Updated content for credentialing reflects updates specific to Medicare, Medicaid, and workers’ compensation
- NEW! Additional content on medical decision making asks you to select the appropriate evaluation and management codes under current documentation guidelines
- NEW! Additional examples of CMS claims including Blue Shield and Automobile Insurance
- Interactive exercises and activities provide frequent opportunities to recall and recognize medical insurance concepts
- Gradable quizzes and exams provide you with proof of mastery and highlight areas which may require further study
- Gradable case studies and assessments measure your comprehension and help you apply the text’s concepts to real-world scenarios faced by health insurance professionals
- Claims processing and medical record activities help you understand how crucial completing a clean claim form is for both the patient and the medical office
- Reading references connect this online course with the Fordney’s textbook, providing practice with applying the book’s concepts
Readership
Readership
Medical Assisting Students in Educational Programs
Table of contents
Table of contents
Modules
1. Role of an Insurance Billing Specialist
2. Privacy, Security, and HIPAA
3. Compliance, Fraud, and Abuse
4. Introduction to Health Insurance
5. The Blue Plans, Private Insurance, and Managed Care Plans
6. Medicare
7. Medicaid
8. TRICARE and Veteran’s Health Care
9. Workers’ Compensation
10. Disability Income Insurance and Disability Benefit Insurance
11. Medical Documentation and the Electronic Health Record
12. Diagnostic Coding
13. Procedural Coding
14. HCPCS Coding NEW!
15. The Paper Claim: CMS-1500
16. The Electronic Claim
17. Receiving Payments and Insurance Problem Solving
18. Collection Strategies
19. Ambulatory Surgery Center
20. Hospital Outpatient and Inpatient Billing
21. Seeking a Job and Attaining Professional Advancement
1. Role of an Insurance Billing Specialist
2. Privacy, Security, and HIPAA
3. Compliance, Fraud, and Abuse
4. Introduction to Health Insurance
5. The Blue Plans, Private Insurance, and Managed Care Plans
6. Medicare
7. Medicaid
8. TRICARE and Veteran’s Health Care
9. Workers’ Compensation
10. Disability Income Insurance and Disability Benefit Insurance
11. Medical Documentation and the Electronic Health Record
12. Diagnostic Coding
13. Procedural Coding
14. HCPCS Coding NEW!
15. The Paper Claim: CMS-1500
16. The Electronic Claim
17. Receiving Payments and Insurance Problem Solving
18. Collection Strategies
19. Ambulatory Surgery Center
20. Hospital Outpatient and Inpatient Billing
21. Seeking a Job and Attaining Professional Advancement
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 17
- Latest edition
- Published: November 27, 2024
- Language: English
About the author
About the author
LS
Linda M. Smith
Linda M Smith is the author of Fordney’s Medical Insurance, 16e and its accompanying workbook and online course. She has revised 3 editions of HIPAA Online. She has had over 40 years of experience in the healthcare industry as a business manager and is a Certified Professional Coder (CPC). She has also earned the credentials of E/M Specialist (CEMC) and is an approved Professional Medical Coding Curriculum Instructor (CPC-I) through the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC). Linda provides training privately to local organizations and is an instructor with various business and technical schools. She and her associates provide training in the areas of medical ethics, medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, and medical coding and billing. They provide continuing education workshops for the organizations mentioned above.
Affiliations and expertise
Training and Consulting, MedOffice Resources, Greene, NY, USA