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The Not So Patient Advocate: How to Get the Health Care You

by Affordable Health Care

The Not So Patient Advocate provides a much needed antidote to the fear, anxiety and stress of having to deal with sometimes less than responsive health care providers. Ellen Menard, an award winning senior health care executive, BSN,MBA, upends the notion of patients as passive and powerless consumers, and through true stories that provide context, [...]

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Workbook to Accompany Understanding Health Insurance: A Guide

by Affordable Health Care

The restructured chapter content of the workbook offers application-based assignments with more critical thinking components. The assignments require learners to demonstrate an understanding of the content rather than simple recall of facts. Chapter 1 provides guidelines for professional development as well as initiating a job search, with numerous resources identified. Chapters 2-17 offer an in-depth [...]

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Who Shall Live?: Health, Economics, and Social Choice (2nd

by Affordable Health Care

Since the first edition of Who Shall Live? (1974) over 100,000 students, teachers, physicians, and general readers from more than a dozen fields have found this book to be a reader-friendly, authoritative introduction to economic concepts applied to health and medical care. Fuchs provides clear explanations and memorable examples of the importance of the non-medical [...]

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The United States Health Care System: Combining Business,

by Affordable Health Care

UNITED STATES HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, THE: COMBINING BUSINESS, HEALTH, AND DELIVERY, 2/e is the most readable, student-friendly overview of the US healthcare system. Written simply and informally, it focuses on breadth rather than non-essential depth, giving even inexperienced students the knowledge they need to succeed. It addresses these questions: “What is this business called healthcare?” “How [...]

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PASSTRAK Life and Health Insurance License Exam Manual, Fifth

by Affordable Health Care

This course surveys life and health insurance principles and concepts common to all state producer licensing exams, giving students the relevant information they need to help pass the exam on the first try. The text is intended as a comprehensive introduction to life and health insurance. Topics include insurance contracts, life insurance policies, premiums and [...]

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Competitive Failures in Insurance Markets: Theory and Policy

by Affordable Health Care

Risk sharing is a cornerstone of modern economies. It is valuable to risk-averse consumers and essential for investment and entrepreneurs. The standard economic model of risk exchange predicts that competition in insurance markets will result in all individual risks being insured--that all diversifiable risks in the economy will be covered through mutual risk-sharing arrangements--but in [...]

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Free for All?: Lessons From the RAND Health Insurance Experiment

by Affordable Health Care

From 1971 to 1982, researchers at the RAND Corporation devised an experiment to address two key questions in health care financing: how much more medical care will people use if it is provided free of charge? and what are the consequences for their health? This book presents a comprehensive account of the experiment and its [...]

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Pricing the Priceless: A Health Care Conundrum (Walras-Pareto

by Affordable Health Care

The health care industry differs from most other industries in that medical pricing is primarily administered by the government and private insurers and in that it uses several types of contracts. Providers may receive a fixed sum for all necessary services within a given period of time, for the necessary services to treat a given [...]

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CliffsNotes Understanding Health Insurance (Cliffs Notes)

by Affordable Health Care

Not all health plans are created equal! To figure out what the best policy is for you and your family, turn to this guide and learn the finer points of the insurance maze. Know your needs and your choices, and you can start saving money now. Tags: understanding health insurance, health plans, Understanding, Guide, family, [...]

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Life and Health Insurance License Exam Cram

by Affordable Health Care

If you are studying for your life and health insurance licensing exam, we have the ultimate study tool for you. Life and Health Insurance License Exam Cram is a great resource to help you learn the concepts, laws, rate calculations and state and federal regulations that will be covered on the exam. You'll also receive [...]

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Medical Insurance Coding Workbook 2007-08

by Affordable Health Care

The Medical Insurance Coding Workbook for Physician Practices builds coding expertise by providing thorough practice, tips, and reinforcement in code selection and linkage. This supplementary workbook offers extensive opportunities for students to practice ICD-9-CM (diagnoses) and CPT/HCPCS (procedures) coding using the standard code reference manuals. Unique coding linkage coverage reviews and practices reporting diagnosis and [...]

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Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big

by Affordable Health Care

Exposing the most controversial, little-known practices of America’s most flawed system, Time magazine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team pulls back the curtain on the health care industry to explain exactly how things grew so out of control. Dirty examination and operating rooms in doctor’s offices and hospitals . . . Health care executives pulling in millions [...]

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Bonus Options in Health Insurance (Developments in Health

by Affordable Health Care

Confronted with the continuing cost expansion in the health care sector, policy makers face a dilemma: limiting moral hazard in medical care requires that consumers participate in the cost, yet copayment is strongly resisted by today's socially insured. Thus, the experiences of three private German health insurers will be of interest to physicians, social scientists, [...]

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Understanding Health Insurance: A Guide to Billing And

by Affordable Health Care

Understanding Health Insurance, Tenth Edition is fully updated to the latest code sets, guidelines, and claim forms to provide you with the most essential and up-to-date knowledge on billing and reimbursement. With Understanding Health Insurance, Tenth Edition, you will learn about managed health care, legal and regulatory issues, coding systems, reimbursement methods, coding for medical [...]

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Outcomes in Coding Practice: A Roadmap From Provider to Payer

by Affordable Health Care

Intended to demystify the payment of insurance claims, Outcomes in Coding Practice: A Roadmap from Provider to Payer provides insight into coding from the payer perspective. By understanding the rules, laws and contracts HMO, PPOs or Medicare must consider when payment decision are made, you will be able to make the correct coding choices and [...]

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Reinsuring Health: Why More Middle-Class People Are Uninsured

by Affordable Health Care

America’s current system of health insurance, which relies almost exclusively on employer-sponsored coverage, is in danger of collapse, and this problem is not limited to the poor and working class. An increasing number of middle-class Americans do not have employer-provided insurance and—due to skyrocketing premiums—cannot afford to purchase coverage for themselves. Reinsuring Health, by economist [...]

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