Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 651.504261 EAN: 9780071472203 ISBN: 0071472207 Label: McGraw-Hill Professional Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 239 Publication Date: November 21, 2006 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Sales Rank: 19818 Studio: McGraw-Hill Professional
This handy resource clearly explains the principles and practices used by medical offices, hospitals, and health facilities to encode medical services in order to receive payment from government agencies and insurance companies.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Very Good Overview
I have worked with collections for 15 years.
After reading this book I have a complete understanding of the billing proccess from start to finsh. Also very good information on how the doctor's office's work. In clear english. Thank you for the resorce.
Rating: - Slanted and Basic
I'll admit I was turned off in the first few pages of the book with a section that characterized medical insurance as a "game" and all-but accused medical insurers of deliberately delaying claims payment in order to make money, using an example that doesn't make any fiscal sense anyway.
Clearly, the authors have the "insurance is big business screwing the little people" agenda. Thus this book is not useful to anyone actually looking for a balanced or in-depth view of the medical reimbursement ... Read More
Rating: - Not for college level...
This book was disappointing for a college level reference. Perhaps better as a basic introduction, but not demystifying as promised.
Rating: - Full of typos but some very useful info
I have to agree with other reviewers who said this book was poorly edited. How this work could get past the proofreaders is beyond me! Perhaps they were in a hurry to get it published....That said, I did find this book very useful as I am considering a career in this area and really knew very little about what I'd be getting myself into. If you know a lot about the field already but want some detailed instruction on how to do coding, this book is NOT for you. After reading it, I have only a general idea ... Read More
Rating: - A Poorly Edited High-Level Introduction to the Industry
"Medical Billing and Coding Demystified" provides a very high-level introduction to the namesake industry. I was disappointed that the first 80 pages of the book provide no information about billing nor coding, opting rather to provide a background of the entire healthcare industry that, as a whole, is only useful to the reader if he/she has never been to a doctor in the United States. Given that the book has fewer than 200 pages of informative text, I argue that the book is fundamentally mis-titled.
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- Very Good Overview
- Slanted and Basic
- Full of typos but some very useful info
