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Workbook for Fordney’s Medical Insurance and Billing

  • 17th Edition - November 27, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Linda M. Smith, Cheryl Fassett
  • Language: English

Get the hands-on practice you need to master medical insurance billing and coding! Corresponding to the chapters in Fordney's Medical Insurance and Billing, 17th Edition, th… Read more

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Get the hands-on practice you need to master medical insurance billing and coding! Corresponding to the chapters in Fordney's Medical Insurance and Billing, 17th Edition, this workbook provides realistic exercises that help you apply concepts and develop the skills needed by insurance billing specialists. Assignments ask you to complete common claim forms such as the CMS-1500 and the UB-04 by extracting information from patient records and accurately selecting procedural and diagnostic codes. This edition adds exercises on professionalism, HCPCS coding, and credentialing activities. With this practical workbook, you will make the most of your Fordney's textbook.

Key features

  • NEW HCPCS Coding chapter includes exercises for ambulance billing, supply billing, and more
  • NEW exercises on professionalism cover customer service, conflict management, diversity awareness, leadership, and other competencies to help you become an effective, engaged, and highly functioning employee
  • NEW exercises related to billing of automobile and liability insurance
  • Self-study exercises reinforce your understanding with matching, true/false, multiple-choice, mix and match, and fill-in-the-blank questions, as well as critical thinking assignments
  • Diagnostic, procedural, and HCPCS code exercises provide practice with submitting a claim or making an itemized billing statement
  • Study outlines focus your review by listing the key points for each chapter
  • Performance objectives make learning easier by highlighting what you need to accomplish in each chapter
  • Key terms and abbreviations at the beginning of each chapter provide a quick reference to the health insurance terminology you need to know
  • Critical Thinking assignments are based on short, real-world vignettes, preparing you to work in a real medical office and allowing you to apply theory learned from the textbook

Table of contents

Unit 1 Career Role and Responsibilities

1. Role of an Insurance Billing Specialist

2. Privacy, Security, and HIPAA

3. Compliance, Fraud, and Abuse

Unit 2 Introduction to Health Insurance

4. Basics of Health Insurance

5. The Blue Plans, Private Insurance, and Managed Care Plans

6. Medicare

7. Medicaid and Other State Programs

8. TRICARE and Veterans Health Care

9. Workers’ Compensation, Automobile, and Liability Insurance

10. Disability Income Insurance and Disability Benefit Programs

Unit 3 Documentation and Coding for Professional Services

11. Medical Documentation and the Electronic Health Record

12. ICD-10-CM Coding

13. CPT Coding

14. HCPCS Level II Coding

Unit 4 Claims Submission in the Medical Office

15. The Paper Claim CMS 1500

16. The Electronic Claim

Unit 5 Revenue Cycle Management

17. Receiving Payments and Insurance Problem-Solving

18. Collection Strategies

Unit 6 Health Care Facility Billing

19. Introduction to Health Care Facilities and Ambulatory Surgery Centers

20. Billing for Health Care Facilities

Unit 7 Employment

21. Seeking a Job and Attaining Professional Advancement

Product details

  • Edition: 17
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 4, 2025
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Linda M. Smith

Linda M Smith is the author of Fordney’s Medical Insurance, 16e and its accompanying workbook and online course. She has revised 3 editions of HIPAA Online. She has had over 40 years of experience in the healthcare industry as a business manager and is a Certified Professional Coder (CPC). She has also earned the credentials of E/M Specialist (CEMC) and is an approved Professional Medical Coding Curriculum Instructor (CPC-I) through the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC). Linda provides training privately to local organizations and is an instructor with various business and technical schools. She and her associates provide training in the areas of medical ethics, medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, and medical coding and billing. They provide continuing education workshops for the organizations mentioned above.
Affiliations and expertise
Training and Consulting, MedOffice Resources, Greene, NY, USA

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Cheryl Fassett

Cheryl Fassett has worked in healthcare administration, billing, and coding for 34 years. She was a coding/billing specialist and account manager with Practicare Medical Management for five years and has been the practice manager for Riverside Associates in Anesthesia for the last 29 years. Her job tasks are varied and include auditing the coding, billing, and reimbursement for the practice, as well as payroll, scheduling, human resources, and working with the accounting department, legal team, and pension manager. In addition to this she has earned certifications from the AAPC in coding, billing, auditing, practice management, risk adjustment coding, clinical documentation, and instructing the AAPC coding curriculum. She was a contributor and subject matter expert for the Fordney Smith Medical Insurance and Billing 15th , 16th, and 17th editions. She has created and presented workshops and training to AAPC members, billing companies, and hospital staff on topics ranging from HIPAA compliance, revenue cycle and anesthesia coding to leadership, communication, cognitive biases and limiting beliefs.