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The Complete Medical Bill Translator: A Humorous Guide Explaining Hospital Prices, Insurance Adjustments, CPT Codes, Hidden Fees, and All the ... Knowing Why (The Professional Translations) - Softcover

Book 1 of 2: The Professional Translations Series

Ledger, Jordan K

 
9798295433696: The Complete Medical Bill Translator: A Humorous Guide Explaining Hospital Prices, Insurance Adjustments, CPT Codes, Hidden Fees, and All the ... Knowing Why (The Professional Translations)

Synopsis

The only medical-billing guide that explains everything while clarifying absolutely nothing.

A perfect gift for anyone who has ever received a bill, questioned reality, and lost.

If you've ever stared at a medical bill and whispered, "this can't be right", then this book is for you.

Publisher's description:

"Fee. Fee plus modifier. Fee plus unexplainable surcharge. Adjustment to the adjustment of the previous adjustment. Patient responsibility = TBD."

So begins Jordan K. Ledger's landmark satire: a sweeping, meticulously unhelpful excavation of medical billing's psychological, linguistic, and spiritual collapse-a text that appears to be a survival guide but is, in fact, a meticulously typeset shrug.

Or it may not.

Here, the experts weigh in:

"Coding, recoding, decoding. The bill arrives before the service, after the service, and instead of the service. Ledger captures the true entropy at the heart of healthcare."

Dr. Helena Worksheet, Senior Claims Processor, Level 9

"An incisive analysis of co-pay epistemics. My entire department felt seen and immediately filed denials."

Marjorie 'The No Machine' Halberd, Director of Prior Authorization

"An important contribution to the field of professional confusion. Ledger writes with the confidence of a man who has never successfully understood an EOB."

Professor Lance Deductible, University of Billing Sciences

Jordan K. Ledger writes comprehensive guides for professional labyrinths responsible for raising the nation's collective blood pressure. His mission is simple: expose the absurdity baked into modern professional life, one joke at a time.

Useful? No. Cathartic? Yes. Giftable? Extremely.

This work is satire. No medical, legal, or billing advice is provided.

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