Workbook for Beik’s Health Insurance Today
- 8th Edition - September 11, 2023
- Author: Julie Pepper
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 4 1 8 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 4 6 8 - 8
Corresponding to the chapters in Beik’s Health Insurance Today, 8th Edition, this workbook lets you practice the skills you will need to succeed as a health insurance profes… Read more
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Request a sales quoteCorresponding to the chapters in Beik’s Health Insurance Today, 8th Edition, this workbook lets you practice the skills you will need to succeed as a health insurance professional. Practical assignments reinforce the information in the text, and engaging learning activities and case studies challenge you to apply your knowledge to real-world situations. This edition adds up-to-date coverage of cybersecurity, COVID-19, crowdfunding for medical bills, and more.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- Preface
- 1 The Origins of Health Insurance
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- 2 Tools of the Trade: A Career as a Health (Medical) Insurance Professional
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- Reference Notebook Assignment
- 3 The Legal and Ethical Side of Medical Insurance
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- Reference Notebook Assignment
- Chapter Checklist
- 4 Healthcare Reform: Coverage Types and Sources
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- Health Insurance Professional’s Notebook
- Chapter Checklist
- 5 The Patient and the Billing Process
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- Health Insurance Professional’s Notebook
- Chapter Checklist
- 6 Reimbursement Models
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- Composing a Patient Letter
- Health Insurance Professional’s Notebook
- Chapter Checklist
- 7 Understanding Managed Care
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- Generate a Document for a Nonroutine HMO Patient
- Health Insurance Professional’s Notebook
- Chapter Checklist
- 8 Understanding Medicare
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- 9 Understanding Medicaid
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- Health Insurance Professional’s Notebook
- Chapter Checklist
- 10 Understanding Military Carriers
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- Health Insurance Professional’s Notebook
- Chapter Checklist
- 11 Understanding Miscellaneous Carriers: Workers’ Compensation and Disability Insurance
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- Chapter Checklist
- 12 Claim Submission Methods
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- Chapter Checklist
- 13 Diagnostic Coding
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- Health Insurance Professional’s Notebook
- Chapter Checklist
- 14 Procedural, Evaluation and Management, and HCPCS Coding
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- Health Insurance Professional’s Notebook
- Exercise 1
- Procedure: Surgery Section
- Exercise 2
- Procedure: Radiology, Pathology, and Laboratory Sections
- Exercise 3
- Procedure: Medicine Section
- Exercise 4
- Procedure: Integumentary System
- Procedure: Musculoskeletal System
- Procedure: Hemic/Lymphatic/Diaphragm (38100–39599)
- Procedure: Radiology/Pathology
- Chapter Checklist
- 15 Claims Management
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- Chapter Checklist
- 16 The Role of Computers in Health Insurance
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- Health Insurance Professional’s Notebook
- Chapter Checklist
- 17 Reimbursement Procedures: Getting Paid
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- 18 Hospital Billing and the UB-04
- WORKBOOK CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- DEFINING CHAPTER TERMS
- ASSESSMENT
- ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES
- Health Insurance Professional’s Notebook
- Chapter Checklist
- Appendix
- No. of pages: 416
- Language: English
- Edition: 8
- Published: September 11, 2023
- Imprint: Saunders
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323934183
- eBook ISBN: 9780323934688
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Julie Pepper
Julie Pepper has spent her entire career in health care, first as a medical assistant in a variety of offices and clinics, developing expertise in the electronic health record. 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 has taught for the past 18 years. Julie is also the program director for the college’s new Health Navigator program. She has served as reviewer and contributor to numerous Medical Assisting educational products over the last decade, including SimChart for the Medical Office; she currently serves as sole author of The Electronic Health Record for the Physician’s Office and The Simulated Administrative Medical Office and co-author of Health Insurance Today, 7e. She is taking over sole authorship of what will be titled Beik’s Health Insurance Today, 8e
Affiliations and expertise
Medical Assisting Program Instructor, Health Navigator Program Director, Chippewa Valley Technical College, Eau Claire, Wisconsin