A comprehensive guide to starting your own home-based medical billing business. Chapters include setting up your home-based medical billing office, starting out, pricing your services, finding clients, marketing examples and strategies, writing a business plan and much more.

Looking for a new career in the health field? Want to make 25,000 too 100,000 or more in your own home-based business? Health Service Businesses on Your Home-Based PC is your source of practical, comprehensive, and accurate information on the three leading health businesses of the decade--medical billing, medical claims assistance, and medical transcription. In this book, noted business writer Rick Benzel explains everything you need to know to get started in these businesses--from how to buy software and where to get training, to how to market and price your services. This completely revised and updated edition includes dozens of real-life accounts of entrepreneurs who successfully started a health service business, along with their tips and suggestions to help you succeed. The book also contains a CD-ROM with demos of 8 leading medical billing software programs.

A comprehensive guide to health insurance claim processing that contains pertinent information on common health insurance plans, and coding systems, reimbursement issues, and step-by-step instructions for HCFA-1500 claim completion. CD-ROM in text and accompanying workbook provide additional opportunities to apply material and practice in completing HCFA-1500 forms. Contains new information regarding ICD-10-CM and HCFA reimbursement issues.

Should be required reading for every office manager, billing manager, all billing personnel and anyone with an ownership interest in a medical practice. It not only gives medical office personnel the tools they need to be effective, it also provides the tools to reduce their personal liability.

Here are hundreds of priceless tips and strategies for firms and independent providers selling services rather than products. It covers everything from generating sales leads to keeping clients after the sale is made.

Big Ideas for Small Service Business is jammed with useful, practical, helpful, and profitable ideas for any right-thinking entrepreneur. As a practicing guerrilla marketer, I recommend it with out a moment's hesitation.

Decoding the Codes is your comprehensive guide to CPT, ICD and HCPS coding systems. Unlike other coding books, Decoding the Codes provides a complete understanding by dissecting each part of the codes and explaining what each alpha numeric and other symbols mean. This is the only book on the market that covers all three coding systems by providing a complete explanation to their use, their meaning and how they affect reimbursement.

Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office is a key text for Medical Administrative Assisting, Medical Front Office programs, or those who wish to become insurance billing specialists, claims assistance professionals, or electronic claims processors for physicians' practices and hospital outpatient clinics. Those already practicing in this area will also find this text beneficial, as will health claims examiner programs. The goal of this extremely up-to-date text is to increase efficiency and streamline administrative procedures for the most exasperating aspect of the doctor's office routine - insurance billing. This text offers guidance for all aspects of submitting, tracing, appealing, and transmitting claims for today's full range of health plans. Important coverage of diagnostic coding, procedural coding, office and insurance collection strategies, Medicare, Managed Care, and more is presented. Additionally, a free CD-ROM featuring the HCFA-1500 claim form is included with the book. The CD-ROM contains 10 scored patient case studies with related insurance information so that the student can practice completing the HCFA-1500 claim form in a fun, interactive format.

Provides the beginning entrepreneur with a blueprint for success in the blunt but whimsical style readers have come to expect from these types of handbooks.

With computer, fax machines, and other technologies becoming commonplace, more and more people are running businesses from their homes and making a good living in the process. Money has been tracking the trend, and, in this new guide, two of the magazine's writers explain how to turn a hobby into a business, find money to start, create a winning business plan, manage cash flow, write great press releases, find low-cost health insurance and safeguard retirement, and much more.

The goal of this extremely up-to-date text is to increase efficiency and streamline administrative procedures for the most exasperating aspect of the doctor's office routine - insurance billing. This text offers guidance for all aspects of submitting, tracing, appealing, and transmitting claims for today's full range of health plans. Important coverage of diagnostic coding, procedural coding, office and insurance collection strategies, Medicare, Managed Care, and more is presented.

Excellent background material on the CPT classification system and outpatient medical coding. Logical, thorough, and well-organized.

Is a comprehensive learning tool for processing insurance claim forms for inpatient and outpatient services for acute, subacute, long-term care, specialty and clinic facilities using the Uniform Bill 92 or UB-92 (HCFA-1450 form).

Step-by-step guidance in making a claim and collecting from the insurance companies that refuse to pay legitimate claims.

This book features an expanded section on using new technologies to increase the reach of marketing efforts, offers sample telephone and voice mail scripts, and includes advice on setting up a home office for maximum efficiency.