Understanding Hospital Billing and Coding by Debra P Ferenc

Understanding Hospital Billing and Coding by Debra P Ferenc

• Includes over 400 illustrations and graphics to bring important concepts to life.
• Skills and concepts presented in early chapters are utilized throughout later chapters.
• Test-your-knowledge exercises reinforce lessons as students move forward in the text.
• Review exercises at the end of each chapter further reinforce essential information.
• Actual hospital cases offer students an opportunity to apply the concepts used throughout the chapters to real-life scenarios.
• A department-by-department overview of hospital structure provides detailed coverage of how hospitals really work.
• Software exercises drawn from relevant source documents - such as application of registration; Charge Description Master (CDM); and Patient Invoice - simulate a hospital billing and coding environment and provide an alternative method of learning relevant procedures.
• Comprehensive presentation of the UB-92 includes section-by-section explanations and a thorough introduction to the UB-04 claim form as well as comparison between the CMS-1500 and UB-92.
• Detailed explanations of HIPAA, hospital coding, and various payer systems help prepare students to enter the field of hospital billing and coding.