ISBN:
9780443112188
Copyright:
2025
Publication Date:
04-29-2024
Imprint:
Saunders
List Price:
$81.99
Medical Insurance Online for Beik’s Health Insurance Today, 8th Edition
by Julie Pepper, BS, CMA (AAMA)
Online Course
ISBN:
9780443112188
Copyright:
2025
Publication Date:
04-29-2024
Imprint:
Saunders
List Price:
$81.99
$81.99
Or $0.00 with a valid access code
Master the complexities of health insurance with this dynamic online course! Corresponding to the chapters in Beik’s Health Insurance Today, 8th Edition, Medical Insurance Online provides hands-on practice with completing both paper and electronic claim forms. Eighteen learning modules include short instructional segments followed by application activities based on medical records from real-life case studies. You will review basics such as claims management and the types of health insurance, and gain experience in skills, including diagnostic coding, procedural coding, HCPCS coding, and extracting information from a patient’s chart. MIO prepares you for a successful career as a health insurance professional!
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- Reading references connect the course and book as a complete package. The book contains the cognitive learning, and the course presents application.
- Interactive exercises and activities allow students frequent opportunities to recall and apply medical insurance concepts.
- Gradable quizzes and exams provide proof of mastery for students and highlight areas where instructors may need to provide more instruction.
- Medical record activities help students understand how crucial completing a clean claim form is for both the patient and the medical office.
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- NEW! Additional content on cybersecurity emphasizes the importance of keeping digital information private and secure.
- NEW! Information on crowdfunding for medical bills discusses how this practice affects billing.
- NEW! Geographic Practice Cost Indexes/Resource Based Relative Value Scale (GPCI/RBPVU) calculators are included.
- NEW! Coverage of COVID-19 explores its impact on billing, reimbursement, and employment.
- NEW! Designed to meet all Level A and AA checkpoints of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.
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UNIT 1: Building a Foundation
1. Origins of Health Insurance
2. Tools of the Trade: A Career as a Health Insurance Professional
3. The Legal and Ethical Side of Health Insurance
4. Healthcare Reform: Coverage Types and Sources
5. The Patient and the Billing Process
UNIT 2: Health Insurance Basics
6. Reimbursement Models
7. Understanding Managed Care
8. Understanding Medicare
9. Understanding Medicaid
10. Understanding Military Carriers
11. Understanding Miscellaneous Carriers: Workers’ Compensation and Disability Insurance
UNIT 3: Claims Submission
12. Claim Submission Methods
13. Diagnostic Coding
14. Procedural, Evaluation and Management, and HCPCS Coding
15. Claims Management
UNIT 4: Advanced Application
16. The Roles of Computers in Health Insurance
17. Reimbursement Procedures: Getting Paid
18. Hospital Billing and the UB-04