Authors:Carolyn P. Hartley, Edward D. Jones,
Publisher: American Medical Association Press
Keywords: healthcare, professionals, guide, compliance, plain, simple, hipaa
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2003-08
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1579474195
ISBN-13: 9781579474195

HIPAA Plain and Simple: A Compliance Guide for Health Care Professionals is a valuable, must-read resource for frontline patient interaction. The guide simplifies the complex HIPAA regulations for those in the medical office who have direct patient contact or are responsible for safeguarding patient information. Each chapter contains "what to do" and "how to do it" directions to help every employee learn what it means to be HIPAA compliant and how to achieve compliance. This resource includes: -Descriptions and analyses of HIPAA components, including the final security rule -Charts,

Author: Robert D., M.D., Ph.D. RondinelliMarjorie, M.D. E
Publisher: American Medical Association Press
Keywords: guides, permanent, impairment, evaluation, sixth, ama, transition
Number of Pages: 429
Published: 2009-09-18
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1603591109
ISBN-13: 9781603591102

This is a seamless transition to the "Guides Sixth". Ease your transition from "Guides Fifth" to "Guides Sixth" by first understanding and assessing the overview, conceptual changes and key changes in the impairment evaluations. It is ideal, not only for physicians, but attorneys, insurers, policy makers, legislators and executive branch government officials, as well as administrative personnel in government mandated public or private reimbursement systems. Allow medical and disability professionals help you assess the changes and controversies with the "Guides Sixth". "Transition to the AMA G

Authors:J. Max Reiboldt, American Medical Association,
Publisher: American Medical Association Press
Keywords: practice, medical, management, financial
Number of Pages: 158
Published: 2002-09
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1579472915
ISBN-13: 9781579472917

This must have resource gives physicians and office administrators the information they need to make informed decisions and set their practice on a sound fiscal foundation. In an easy-to-understand format, the book: -Simplifies financial analysis -Outlines steps to assure revenue maximization and expense management -Discusses financial safeguards and other internal control issues -Includes chapters on budgeting, ratios and benchmarking -Provides financial report samples, charts, checklists and a glossary of financial terminology -Offers practical responses to the

Author: American Medical Association
Publisher: American Medical Association Press
Keywords: impairment, permanent, evaluation, guides
Number of Pages: 634
Published: 2007-12-15
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 1579478883
ISBN-13: 9781579478889

Updated and enhanced: Guides sixth offers the most current guidelines for correct impairment evaluation The newly revised Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, sixth edition, from the American Medical Association, emphasizes the fundamental skills physicians need to evaluate and communicate patient impairments. Standardized methodology is applied to each chapter to enhance the relevancy of impairment ratings, improve internal consistency and promote ease of application to the rating process. This ordered method enables busy physicians to become proficient with the ratings for mul

Author: American Medical Association
Publisher: American Medical Association Press
Keywords: cpt, standard, terminology, current, procedural
Number of Pages: 621
Published: 2009-11
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1603591184
ISBN-13: 9781603591188

Stay in compliance with CPT[registered] code changes each year and increase the accuracy of your claims submission with the AMA’s official coding resource for procedural codes, rules and guidelines. This is only resource with official CPT[registered] coding rules and guidelines necessary to interpret and report medical procedures and services. It includes: a limited number of anatomical illustrations added to help you better understand CPT code applications (new); updated CPT[registered] Assistant, clinical examples in radiology newsletter and CPT[registered]; changes book citations that

Author: Hoyt W. Torra
Publisher: American Medical Association Pre
Keywords: compliance, guide, billing, physician, abuse, care, fraud, health
Number of Pages: 433
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 1579473539
ISBN-13: 9781579473532

Implement a compliance program that ensures accuracy and increases revenue. Since the first edition of Health Care Fraud and Abuse was published in early 2001, the government has released new information that medical practices need to ensure compliance. The second edition addresses that information and provides updated resources and tools to improve compliance efforts. This resource helps physicians: -Understand the implications of the fraud and abuse laws in their day-to-day practice -Identify areas where violations could occur -Determine what steps to consider to minimize exposure and ensure

Authors:Elizabeth, M.D. Genovese, Jill S. Galper,
Publisher: American Medical Association Pre
Keywords: functional, evaluations, american, medical, capacity, association, interpet, evaluation, ability, request, guide, apply
Number of Pages: 530
Published: 2009-03-11
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1603590013
ISBN-13: 9781603590013

Understand the use of FCEs in determining disability Bridging the gap between impairment and disability, the AMA Guide to the Evaluation of Functional Ability provides a practical approach to functional capacity evaluations (FCEs) in relation to assessing patients’ physical ability. With this book, readers will be able to: -Know the differences between various functional tests to request the appropriate type -Design, interpret and apply FCEs to process workers’ compensation and to rate disability -Clearly discuss and document how to best use the data in FCEs to assess a patient