Health Insurance Today: A Practical Approach - Softcover

Beik, Janet I.; Pepper, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323654282 ISBN 13: 9780323654289

Publisher: W B Saunders Co, 2020

Synopsis

Corresponding to the chapters in Health Insurance Today, 7th Edition, this workbook gives you practice with 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 exercises challenge you to apply your knowledge to real-world situations. This edition expands its focus on case studies and the use of practice management software, adding more opportunities for application in the medical office.

• Performance-based activities
include hands-on, application-based learning exercises that provide practice in areas such as completing claim forms, posting payments to a patient's ledger, filling out Release to Return to Work
• forms, and filling out Medicare appeals.
• Critical thinking activities strengthen your ability to apply health insurance concepts to a variety of challenging situations, with Stop and Think exercises allowing you to apply critical thinking skills to solve a problem or answer a question.
• Chapter assessments test your knowledge with multiple choice, true/false, short answer, fill-in-the-blank, and matching questions.
• Problem-solving and collaborative (group) activities emphasize the importance of teamwork in the healthcare field.
• Case studies ask you to solve a real-world problem related to health insurance, such as completing a CMS-1500 claim form or explaining how HIPAA could affect someone recently out of work.
• Application exercises ask you to apply?your knowledge and skills to real-world situations.
• In-class projects and discussion topics enhance?your understanding of specific content from the text.
• Internet Exploration exercises in each chapter help you learn how to perform research online.
• Defining Chapter Terms activities help you review and understand the key terms in each chapter.

• NEW! Up-to-date information
• is included on all topics, including key topics like Medicare.
• NEW and expanded case studies and Internet Exploration activities are added.
• NEW! Additional performance objectives are included, using practice management software.
• NEW! Updated charts and forms are included.

Edition details

• Publisher: W B Saunders Co
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323654282
• ISBN 13: 9780323654289
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432