FUNDAMENTALS OF INSURANCE, 2E combines hands-on activities, examples from news-making companies, creative special features, and solid content to give your students a full understanding of insurance. Extensive use of activities help students better understand the importance of insurance and how it affects them today--and through to their retirement days. Insurance careers are integrated throughout the text, as well as being provided as a focus in their own chapter. Research questions require students to make contact with the insurance world where they will get additional career information and bring interest and realism into the classroom. Students learn the importance of risk management, property and auto insurance, health coverage, insurance rates, claims procedures, careers in insurance, annuities and planning for retirement. - 61.16

An engaging, conversational writing style makes difficult concepts easier to grasp. Discussion questions and in-class activities presented throughout each chapter ease learning by breaking material into more manageable segments and reinforcing key points. Compliance tips alert you to important federal and state regulations. Real-world examples present complex concepts in a realistic, practice-based context similar to what you'll encounter on the job. Review and application exercises, including real-world case studies, critical thinking exercises, role-playing exercises, and collaborative learning activities, help you assess your knowledge and understand how to apply what you've learned to practice. Key term definitions and learning objectives streamline the learning process and familiarize you with important terminology and concepts. A companion CD reinforces your understanding and guides you interactively through the completion of insurance claims. An Evolve Resources website links you to additional information for further study and review. Updated claim form information familiarizes you with the current CMS-1500 (08-05) claim form for the most accurate billing and coding. - 54.00

Chapter Assessments test your knowledge of textbook content through multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and fill-in-the-blank questions. Over 60 realistic Case Studies prepare you for common scenarios you'll encounter in practice. Critical Thinking Activities strengthen your ability to apply health insurance concepts to a variety of challenging situations. Group Problem Solving Activities emphasize the importance of teamwork in the health care field. In-class projects and discussion topics help you enhance your understanding of specific content from the text. Internet Exploration exercises in each chapter introduce you to valuable health insurance resources available online. Performance Objectives provide hands-on, application-based practice working with common tasks and forms. Performance Evaluation charts in every chapter enable you to assess your progress and identify areas requiring additional study and review. A companion CD simulates the health insurance billing process and familiarizes you with claim forms. - 54.68

Understanding Health Insurance, Tenth Edition is fully updated to the latest code sets, guidelines, and claim forms to provide students with the most essential and up-to-date knowledge on billing and reimbursement. With Understanding Health Insurance, Tenth Edition, students will learn about managed health care, legal and regulatory issues, coding systems, reimbursement methods, coding for medical necessity, and common health insurance plans. Exercises in each chapter provide plenty of practice for learning how to bill and reimburse, and the accompanying workbook provides more application-based assignments for each chapter, as well as additional case studies to reinforce knowledge. The text includes free software that allows students to test their knowledge. - 47.49

This money saving package includes the 3rd edition of Health Insurance Today Textbook and Virtual Medical Office. - 105.00

Master the skills you'll need for professional success in health insurance billing with this essential practice tool! Each chapter draws on material from the latest edition of Health Insurance Today: A Practical Approach to bring you the most practical, up-to-date preparation for the tasks you'll encounter on the job. Comprehensive review questions, critical thinking exercises, and application-based activities help you reinforce what you've learned and gain valuable experience working with real-world scenarios.*Chapter Assessments test your knowledge of textbook content through multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and fill-in-the-blank questions. *Over 60 realistic Case Studies prepare you for common scenarios you'll encounter in practice. *Critical Thinking Activities strengthen your ability to apply health insurance concepts to a variety of challenging situations. *Group Problem Solving Activities emphasize the importance of teamwork in the health care field. *In-class projects and discussion topics help you enhance your understanding of specific content from the text. *Internet Exploration exercises in each chapter introduce you to valuable health insurance resources available online. *Performance Objectives provide hands-on, application-based practice working with common tasks and forms. *Performance Evaluation charts in every chapter enable you to assess your progress and identify areas requiring additional study and review. *A companion CD simulates the health insurance billing process and familiarizes you with claim forms. - 31.63

This money-saving package is a must-have for students! It includes Health Insurance Today, A Practical Approach, 2nd edition and an electronic version of the textbook that allows students to search, highlight information, take notes, share notes and more. This package makes it simple for students to make the most of their study time and get more use out of their textbooks! - 120.21

Noting that Canadian observers of US politics are often struck by the importance of race while their US counterparts often find the importance of territory and language in Canadian politics to be of surprising significance, Boychuk (political science, U. of Waterloo, Canada) wonders why little attention has been paid to these topics in examining the development of health care policy in the two countries. He proffers the argument that focus on these two issues provide a better explanation for the divergent development of health care policy than references to political culture, political institutions, or historical institutionalism. Annotation )2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews. com) - 26.68

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This money saving package includes the 3rd edition of Health Insurance Today Textbook, Workbook, and Medisoft Version 16 Demo CD-ROM. - 120.39