Product Description: The 22nd edition of this concise, authoritative text provides detailed background information on new 2013 Medicare payment rules and how they may affect the physician practice. This reference offers valuable insight and tools needed to understand the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) system...read more

Product Description: Medicare RBRVS: The Physicians' Guide has been offering physicians and their staff a comprehensive guide to Medicare's payment system for physicians' services ever since the system became effective in January 1992. Developed by the American Medical Association (AMA), this concise, authoritative text provides detailed background information, explains all features of the physician payment system, and serves as a reference in answering questions about the resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) system...read more

Product Description: Understand the RBRVS system and how to calculate payment schedules accurately. * Updated payment policies, payment calculations and information on appropriate use of modifiers - Ensures correct payment schedule calculations * Easy-to-use tables - Calculate the Medicare payment schedule, including the 2008 relative value units (RVUs) and payment policy indicators for each physician's service and geographic practice cost indexes (GPCIs) for every Medicare payment localit...read more

Product Description: Annual reference provides a concise, authoritative guide in answering questions about the RBRVS system. This edition contains the five-year review of the RBRVs, improvements to E/M payment, updated information on new payment rules for 2007, non-Medicare use of the RBRVS survey results, and more...read more

Product Description: (American Medical Association) Annual reference shows changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule payments that were released in the Nov. 21, 2005 Federal Register. Provides tables with all the elements necessary to calculate the Medicare payment schedule, including payment policy indicators for each physician's service, and more...read more

Product Description: In The Future of the Southern Plains, scholars bring the region to the forefront by asking important questions about its past and suggesting prospects for its future. The contributors, some of them natives of the region, bring to their work a blend of scholarship and personal experience...read more

Product Description: Inside Indexing, by Sherry Smith and Kari Kells, is about the decision-making process of writing indexes for books. It serves as a window into the minds of two back-of-the-book indexers as we both indexed Eben Fodor's text Better Not Bigger: How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Communit...read more

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Product Description: Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century. Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled to the American West and discovered "exotics" in their midst...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sagebrush Soldier is an account of military life during the Indian Wars in the late nineteenth-century West. Private William Earl Smith describes daily camp life, battle scenes, and the behavior of famous men - Ranald Mackenzie and George Crook - in public and private poses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Capturing military men in contemplation rather than combat, Sherry Smith reveals American army officers' views about the Indians against whom they fought in the last half of the nineteenth century. She demonstrates that these officers--and their wives--did not share a monolithic, negative view of their enemies, but instead often developed a great respect for Indians and their cultures...read more