UB-04 Handbook for Hospital Billing, Without Answer Key / Edition 1

by Claudia Birkenshaw

Overview

The first textbook that explains the differences between the UB-04 and the UB-92 and provides a global view of how the billing function should work in conjunction with the coding department.It helps health care providers maximize claim processing performance and revenue recovery and better manage their revenue cycle process. It provides accurate information about the UB-04 and explains how and why ICD-9, CPT and HCPCS code conventions must be integrated with UB-04, HCFA-1450 and CMS-1450 billing conventions. It teaches an individual how to complete a facility UB-04 billing form, and contains vignettes that explain the billing office process, its components and reporting nuances. It helps HIM staff understand that billing coding conventions are as important as ICD-9 coding conventions when sending a claim to a payer and ensures that members of accounting, admitting, and quality management departments understand how their contributions to the revenue cycle must be translated by billers. Contains an overview of basic payment methodologies, plus 65 quizzes without answers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781556483479
Publisher:	American Hospital Association
Publication date:	04/20/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 2.00(d)

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
About the Author
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1  The Critical Importance of the Billing Process
Chapter 2  Introduction to the Uniform Bill and Other Billing Forms
Part II. The UB Manual and the UB-04
Chapter 3   The UB Manual and Form Locators 1-4
Chapter 4     Form Locators 5-41
Chapter 5   Form Locators 42-49, Revenue Codes
Chapter 6   Form Locators 50-81
Part III. Billing Practice
Chapter 7  Hospital Outpatient Billing
Chapter 8  Hospital Inpatient Billing
Chapter 9  Other Facilities Using the UB
Part IV. Third-Party Payers and Patient Accounting Issues
Chapter 10 The Billing Team and Medicare
Chapter 11 The Billing Team and Non-Medicare Payers
Chapter 12 Key Departments in the Revenue Cycle
Appendix. The Path from UB-92 to UB-04
Glossary
Index
Answer Key