Product Description: Both the structure and the dynamics of health services in 14 leading industrialized nations - in standardized form to facilitate comparison - are presented here by experts. A comprehensive picture is given of each country's system: its historical and sociopolitical context and its provision of services in the areas of medical and hospital care, prevention and public health, mental health, ambulatory care, health insurance, and funding...read more

From Patient to Payment: Insurance Procedures for the Medical Office, provides a practical, focused overview of medical insurance and billing. Each chapter is structured to give students a hands-on, practical approach to understanding and working with claims, both paper and electronic, and the medical billing process. This text is precisely tailored for a brief introduction, as the fundamental understanding of coding and claim filing principles is the goal. Incorporated are the latest HIPAA forms and regulations, medical coding, and electronic claims in a clear and focused program. It equips students with the basics of preparing correct health care claims, and provides a brief introduction to Medisoft Advanced v.11 software, which can be used to complete claims.

Product Description: This practical text-workbook introduces students step-by-step to the basic functions related to processing medical insurance claims and provides extensive practice with the universal medical insurance claim form, the HCFA-1500. New chapters include dental insurance and electronic media claims...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Tested and designed by consumers, this guide provides a clear description of Medicare, hospital, medical, and supplemental insurance coverage. A sample bill-paying log sheet is included as are tips on how to file Medicare appeals.

Product Description: This concise, practical text-workbook provides extensive real-world practice with the universal medical insurance claim form, the HCFA 1500. Includes flow charts, claims processing forms, and medical reports. Coding and billing content is based on industry practice and addresses electronic claims and a variety of compliance issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A comprehensive problem solver for today’s health benefits challenges…A precise step-by-step guide to anticipating and planning for tomorrow’s… Health benefits now play a pivotal role in most companies’ strategic planning processes, and today’s benefits administrators face responsibilities and challenges never dreamt of by their counterparts of previous generations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Unable to afford health insurance, the Wongs depend on the children's medical clinic and Medicaid, but learn how to select a family doctor in this dramatization

This First Edition of Statistics moves the curriculum in innovative ways while still looking relatively familiar. Statistics utilizes intuitive methods to introduce the fundamental idea of statistical inference. These intuitive methods are enabled through statistical software and are accessible at very early stages of a course. The text also includes the more traditional methods such as t-tests, chi-square tests, etc., but only after students have developed a strong intuitive understanding of inference through randomization methods.The text is designed for use in a one-semester introductory statistics course. The focus throughout is on data analysis and the primary goal is to enable students to effectively collect data, analyze data, and interpret conclusions drawn from data. The text is driven by real data and real applications. Although the only prerequisite is a minimal working knowledge of algebra, students completing the course should be able to accurately interpret statistical results and to analyze straightforward data sets.

Aimed at people with disabilities, chronic health problems, and health care professionals, discusses the health care system and how to navigate it effectively.

This money-saving package includes the 4th edition of Health Insurance Today Textbook and Workbook.

Outlines the basic steps for choosing a health-care plan that will best serve a person's needs while minimizing costs, in a reference that summarizes the options that are available today while demystifying the Medicare system and listing helpful Web references. Original.

Product Description: There are more than 40 million people in the United States with significant disabilities, a high percentage of whom have difficulty obtaining and keeping insurance of all kinds: life, disability or medical. Written by an attorney with years of experience in insurance planning, this book provides guidelines for obtaining and keeping these vital forms of insurance...read more