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Understanding Hospital Billing and Coding
Debra P. Ferenc
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Description for Understanding Hospital Billing and Coding
Paperback. A guide to hospital insurance billing and coding. It covers everything hospital billers need to know, from patient admission to accounts receivable management and HIPAA. It builds on your knowledge so that you can make a successful transition from the physician/outpatient environment to the hospital setting. Num Pages: 624 pages, Approx. 300 illustrations (130 in full color). BIC Classification: MBPM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 276 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1247.
A basic guide to hospital billing and reimbursement, Understanding Hospital Billing and Coding, 3rd Edition helps you understand, complete, and submit the UB-04 claim form that is used for all Medicare and privately insured patients. It describes how hospitals are reimbursed for patient care and services, showing how the UB-04 claim form reflects the flow of patient data from the time of admission to the time of discharge. Written by coding expert Debra P. Ferenc, this book also ensures that you understand the essentials of ICD-10-CM and develop skills in both inpatient coding and outpatient/ambulatory surgery coding. UB-04 Claim Simulation on the companion Evolve website lets you practice entering information from source documents into the claim form. Over 300 illustrations and graphics bring important concepts to life. Detailed chapter objectives highlight what you are expected to learn. Key terms, acronyms, and abbreviations with definitions are included in each chapter. Concept Review boxes reinforce key concepts. Test Your Knowledge exercises reinforce lessons as you progress through the material. Chapter summaries review key concepts. Practice hospital cases let you apply concepts to real-life scenarios. Updated Claim Forms chapter covers the UB-04 claim form. Updated information covers diagnosis and procedural coding, with guidelines and applications. Updated claim forms and names are used throughout.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division United States
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781455723638
SKU
V9781455723638
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Ref
99-50
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