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- Performance-based activities include hands-on, application-based learning exercises that provide practice in areas such as completing claim forms, posting payments to a patient's ledger, filling out Release to Return to Work forms, and filling out Medicare appeals.
- Critical thinking activities strengthen your ability to apply health insurance concepts to a variety of challenging situations, with Stop and Think exercises allowing you to apply critical thinking skills to solve a problem or answer a question.
- Chapter assessments test your knowledge with multiple choice, true/false, short answer, fill-in-the-blank, and matching questions.
- Problem-solving and collaborative (group) activities emphasize the importance of teamwork in the healthcare field.
- Case studies ask you to solve a real-world problem related to health insurance, such as completing a CMS-1500 claim form or explaining how HIPAA could affect someone recently out of work.
- Application exercises ask you to apply your knowledge and skills to real-world situations.
- In-class projects and discussion topics enhance your understanding of specific content from the text.
- Internet Exploration exercises in each chapter help you learn how to perform research online.
- Defining Chapter Terms activities help you review and understand the key terms in each chapter.
- NEW! Up-to-date information is included on all topics, including key topics like Medicare.
- NEW and expanded case studies and Internet Exploration activities are added.
- NEW! Additional performance objectives are included, using practice management software.
- NEW! Updated charts and forms are included.
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Janet Beik has degrees in business and higher education. Janet was an instructor in the Medical Assistant Program at Southeastern Community College, in West Burlington, Iowa, for several years. She authored the first edition of her book, Health Insurance Today in 2003, and the 7th edition has just published.
Julie Pepper has spent her entire career in health care, first as a medical assistant in a variety of offices and clinics, developing expertise in the electronic health record. She combines her education in dietetics with her clinical and administrative experience as an instructor in the Medical Assisting program at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Wisconsin, where she has taught for the past 18 years. Julie is also the program director for the college’s new Health Navigator program. She has served as reviewer and contributor to numerous Medical Assisting educational products over the last decade, including SimChart for the Medical Office; she currently serves as sole author of The Electronic Health Record for the Physician’s Office and The Simulated Administrative Medical Office and co-author of Health Insurance Today, 7e. She is taking over sole authorship of what will be titled Beik’s Health Insurance Today, 8e
