An essential guide to starting a career in medical billing and coding. Health care is growing by leaps and bounds, and every medical office, hospital, and urgent care center needs at least one medical billing expert. This up-to-date guide walks you through everything you need to know to get started in an exciting new field, showing you how to find a medical coding certification course, deal with government agencies and insurance companies, and more....

Be prepared: Value of HIPAA risk assessment. A comprehensive security risk assessment is an important and necessary strategy for health care organizations to identify gaps in their privacy and security environments. While risk assessments alone do not directly mitigate data breaches, risk exposure decreases significantly when an organization knows exactly where protected health information (PHI) resides and how it is handled. We will cover reasons...

Hidden from consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade between our health-care providers, drug companies, and a complex web of middlemen. This great medical-data bazaar sells copies of our prescriptions, hospital records, insurance claims, blood-test results, and more, stripped of names but still containing identifiers such as year of birth, gender, and doctor. As computing grows ever more sophisticated, patient...

"This text teaches the SOAP notes format reimbursable by Medicare Part B and other third-party payers. Other topics include a review of spelling and grammar, an overview of the initial evaluation process delineating the roles of the occupational therapist and the occupational therapy assistant, tips for clinical reasoning, and guidelines for selecting appropriate interventions. Templates allow beginning students to practice formatting SOAP notes,...