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Basic Medical Terminology Concepts
 | Author - Marilyn White Wilson |
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| Brief Description - The text offers a simple approach to the building blocks of medical terminology; roots, prefixes and suffixes. Upon completing the exercises in the book, the student should be able to combine these building blocks into a complete vocabulary for any medical specialty. |
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Basic Healthcare Terminology: with Anatomy Coloring Exercises
| Author - Whitney Williams |
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| Brief Description - A programmed terminology book which can be used independently or in an academic setting, this text contains a strong focus on anatomy and physiology as well as strategies to reinforce the study of terminology, such as coloring exercises, crossword puzzles, and problem-solving. |
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Building a Medical Vocabulary
| Author - Peggy C. Leonard |
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| Brief Description - The text teaches you the fundamental word parts that make up the language of healthcare - and then explores how these word parts are used to construct more complex terms. This cumulative, "building block" approach makes it easier for you to learn the vocabulary covered in the book and equips you to recognize and analyze the new terms that you'll encounter throughout your career. Each chapter focuses on a separate body system, to make understanding and remembering new terminology simple and logical. You'll quickly become familiar with the terms that apply to each body system's anatomy, it's diseases, and the drugs and procedures that are used to diagnose and treat them. |
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The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine
| Author - Charles B. Clayman, Sam Vaughn (Editor), Janis Donnaud (Editor) |
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| Brief Description - The AMA Encyclopedia of Medicine contains 5,000 entries, a comprehensive listing of 2,800 drugs, descriptions of and symptoms for over 2,200 illnesses, specialist photographs and charts, definitions for 600 different tests and operations, and more. Arranged alphabetically by subject for easy reference. Illustrated in full color. |
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Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
| Author - W.A. Newman Dorland |
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| Brief Description - Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary is accurate, informative, easy to use, and a source you can rely on. Dorland's is accurate, informative, easy to use, and a source you can rely on. |
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Tabers Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
| Author - Clayton L. Thomas (Introduction), Robert H. Craven, Jr. |
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| Average Customer Review Ranking (out of 51) - 5 1 |
| Brief Description - With approximately 55,000 terms in all--including more than 2,100 new terms-- it is the most comprehensive health science dictionary available. It includes 560 detailed illustrations, consisting of 377 full-color images and 183 precise two-color drawings. |
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Stedman's Medical Dictionary: Illustrated in Color (26 edition)
| Author - Thomas Lathrop Stedman |
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| Brief Description - Stedman's is cited in Brandon-Hill as the standard authority on medical language. The 26 edition adds 12,000 new terms, many of them concentrated in the rapidly developing area of biotechnology, biochemistry, genetics, embryology, epidemiology, radiology and neurology. Some of the additions include: 125 identified high profile terms with expanded definitions; 1,000 new color illustrations, photographs and tables; and 29 color anatomical plates near the center of the volume. |
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Gray's Anatomy: The Classic Collector's Edition - Hardcover 15th Edition
| Author - Henry Gray, T. Pickering Pick (Photographer), Robert Howden (Photographer) |
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| Brief Description - Gray's Anatomy has everything that you will need to know in your medical career. Gray unleashed a classic on the world more than 100 years ago. Its clarity and usefulness keep it in print today. Whether you want to understand yourself or others, knowledge of our physical parts and how they fit together is essential. Gray's provides information in simple, timeless format that cleanly dissects a body of knowledge grown over centuries. |
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Medical Practice Management
AMA Handbook for Customer Satisfaction: A Complete Guide to Research, Planning & Implementations
| Author - Alan Dutka |
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| Brief Description - A marketing guide with examples from large companies including Burger King and Baxter Healthcare Corp. Covers planning customer satisfaction research, designing questionnaires, conducting surveys, analyzing the results, applying the results, and maintaining customer satisfaction. |
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Measuring Customer Satisfaction: Survey Design, Use and Statistical Analysis Methods
| Author - Bob E. Hayes |
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| Brief Description - Best seller since its release in 1992. This second edition provides detailed information about how to construct, evaluate, and use questionnaires. New to this edition is a chapter on sampling methods, which includes different methods of sampling as well as how to determine an appropriate sample size for reliable results. |
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Ultimate Patient Satisfaction: Designing, Implementing or Rejuvenating an Effective Patient Satisfaction and TQM Program
| Author - John f. O'Malley |
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| Brief Description - Ultimate Patient Satisfaction gives you tools, tips and techniques stressing internal and external satisfaction points. No other book takes such a no holds barred approach to telling the truth about healthcare providers and their patient encounters. A must read for today's healthcare professionals. |
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Collect What you Produce
| Author - Cathy Jameson |
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| Brief Description - This hands-on guide will help you define financial strategies appropriate to your practice and determine the skills needed to implement fiscally responsible collection practices. |
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ZAPP!: Empowerment in Health Care: How to Improve Patient Care, Increase Employee Job Satisfaction and Lower Health Care Costs
| Author - William C. Byham, Ph.d |
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| Brief Description - ZAPP! is packed with step-by-step, hands-on information to help health care providers revitalize medicine and help control costs by taking control of their jobs, improving existing processes, sharing decision making, and more. ZAPP! merges the needs of employees and management into a cohesive whole, to improve productivity and worker satisfaction. This book is not just a humorous story, it actually has very important lessons for all of us in healthcare. The secrets of empowerment are revealed in this book. The different approach the author uses to teach the strategies need to foster empowerment are presented in a way that the reader will never forget. |
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Achieving Impressive Customer Service: 7 Strategies for the Health Care Manager
| Author - Wendy Leebov, Gail Scott, Lolma Olson |
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| Brief Description - This how-to-book teaches strategies which can be used by an administrator or manager, without the need for training. |
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Financial Analysis and Decision Making for Healthcare Organizations: A Guide for the Healthcare Professional
| Author - Louis C. Grapenski |
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| Brief Description - This book will prepare you for the growth of managed care by providing you with financial management theory and concepts that can enhance your own financial decision making. It also covers Capital acquisition and How managerial decisions can affect your organization's cost of debt. |
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Capitation: New Opportunities in Healthcare Delivery
| Author - David I. Samuels |
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| Brief Description - This book provides the tools and techniques for minimizing the financial risk that is associated with Capitation while maintaining the bottom line. It seeks to clear up the misunderstanding and provide insight to the tremendous power and possibility of Capitation. The book is a great resource for the newcomer or beginner to capitated managed care negotiations. |
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Strategic Healthcare Management: Applying the Lessons of Today's Top Management Experts to the Business of Managed Care
| Author - Ira Studin |
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| Brief Description - In the healthcare industry, the emergence of managed care, capitation and healthcare reform have dictated a greater need for sound business and management strategies. It looks at how you as a capitated provider must rethink the fundamentals of your production process. Dr. Studin manages to integrate his academic acumen and experiential skills to provide every student, physician and experienced healthcare manager the basis for the application of current managerial techniques to contemporary strategic healthcare management. |
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Coding
Step-by-step Medical Coding
| Author - Carol J. Buck, Karla R. Lovaasen, Margaret Biblis (Editor) |
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Decoding the Codes: A Comprehensive Guide to ICD, CPT & HCPCS Coding Systems
| Author - Alex Toth |
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| Brief Description - Unlike other coding books, Decoding the Codes provides a complete understanding by dissecting each part of the codes and explaining what each alpha numeric code means. This is the only book on the market that covers all three coding systems by providing a complete explanation to their use, their meaning and how they affect reimbursement. |
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CPT & HCPCS Coding Made Easy! A Comprehensive Guide to CPT and HCPCS Coding for Healthcare Professionals
| Author - James B. Davis |
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St. Anthony's ICD-9-CM Code Book
| Author - Anita Hart (Editor), Karen Schmidt (Editor) |
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Physician ICD-9-CM, 1999: International Classification of Diseases: 2 Volumes in 1
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CPT 1999: Current Procedural Terminology
| Author - American Medical Association |
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| Brief Description - Spiral Edition |
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1999 CPT Professional Edition
| Author - American Medical Association |
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| Brief Description - Hardcover ring bound edition |
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CPT Companion: Frequently Asked Questions about CPT Coding
| Author - American Medical Association |
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Billing
Practical Guide to Medical Billing
| Author - Deanna L. Holmes |
| Our Price $89.00 |
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| Average Customer Review Ranking (out of 51) - 51 |
| Brief Description - This book appeals to the average practice employee who needs to verify that they are billing at the national standard, now required by law. This book meets the HHS and OIG guidelines for teaching compliance elements at the billing personnel level, using practical examples. Learn current coding conventions, billing rules and application advice. It not only gives medical office personnel the tools they need to be effective, it also provides the tools to reduce their personal liability. |
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Understanding Health Insurance: A Guide to Professional Billing
| Author - Jo Ann C. Rowell |
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| Brief Description - Good learning text for professional health insurance claims. It includes a diskette for taking tests on your PC. |
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Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office
| Author - Marilyn Takahashi Fordney |
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| Brief Description - Although written for the office-based biller, home-based billers will find most, but not all, of the information of practical benefit. |
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Billing Center Resources
Making Money in a Health Service Business on Your Home-based PC
| Author - Rick Benzel |
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| Average Customer Review Ranking (out of 51) - 4.51 |
| Brief Description - This best selling guide is completely updated. It now covers changes and trends in the medical billing, transcription, and claims assistance professions. Plus it includes a CD-ROM with sample medical billing software programs, sample medical transcriptions, and much more. New technologies and billing procedures--new avenues for self-marketing--changes wrought by the explosion in managed care--this edition explains them all. "If healthcare is your business, this should be your bible. It took me from days of excited wondering and wandering to a sense of purpose and direction." |
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Getting Business to Come to You: A Complete Do-It-Yourself Guide to Attracting all the Business You can Enjoy
| Author - Paul Edwards, Sarah Edwards, Laura Clampitt Douglas, Laura Clampitt |
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| Brief Description - Excellent, well thought-out guidance. The authors help you focus and pick one thing which your business will be known for. This book is packed with information and is easy to read and follow. By sharing many examples of their marketing strategy, they show the extensive research that they put into this book. |
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Mompreneurs: A Mother's Practical Step-By-Step Guide to Work-At-Home Success
| Author - Ellen H. Parlapiano, Patricia Cobe (Contributor) |
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| Brief Description - So you have young children and you think it would be great to work at home. Well, picture this: key reports livened up with crayon, loud shrieks during client calls, and no way to leave the office at day's end. If you envision yourself sailing over these hurdles and think you have a talent that can help you make money while still in your sweats, Mompreneurs is for you. It is packed with good tips on writing a business plan, getting a loan, setting fees, creating office space, and finding the right mix of child care. The guide includes inspiring tales of mothers whose businesses are now household names. |
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Independent Medical Coding: The Comprehensive Guidebook for Career Success as a Medical Coder
| Author - Donna Avila-Weil, Rohnda Regan |
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| Brief Description - This book covers topics such as: How to start and successfully run your own professional independent medical coding business; Types of Services to offer; Marketing Tips; Medical Transcriptionists as Coders; and covers skills vital to success: education, certification; coding systems; home office set-up, pricing; business operations; ethics; risk management; finances; taxes; contracts; internet; confidentiality; and more. |
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Selling Your Services: Proven Strategies for Getting Clients to Hire Your (or Your Firm)
| Author - Robert W. Bly |
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| Brief Description - This book has hundreds of priceless tips and strategies for firms and independent providers selling services rather than products. It covers everything from generating sales leads to keeping clients after the sale is made. |
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Secrets of Self-Employment: Surviving and Thriving on the Ups and Downs of Being Your Own Boss
| Author - Sarah Edwards, Paul Edwards (Contributor) |
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| Brief Description - Being your own boss, as anyone who's tried it can attest, is not as easy as it looks. Leaving behind the security of a weekly paycheck to become one's own boss can be a daunting undertaking. In this revised and expanded edition, the two self-employment experts allay fears for anyone who is self-employed and everyone who wants to take the first step toward running his or her own business. |
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Patient Resources
The Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition
| Author - Robert Berkow (Editor), Mark H. Beers (Editor), Andrew J. Fletcher (Editor), Robert M. Bogin (Editor) |
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| Brief Description - Need to find the definition of a medical term and comprehend it? Need fast information about your child's illness? For the first time Merck--the leader in medical research since 1899 -has opened its treasure chest of medical knowledge to the general public. |
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Stedman's Pocket Medical Dictionary
| Author - Dina Maranto (Editor), John H. Dirckx (Editor), Gina Maranto (Editor) |
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| Availability - Not yet available. Print date March 1999. You may still order and the book will be shipped to you when it is released by the publisher. |
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| Brief Description - Health Conscious consumers will love the crystal clear language used to define the 10,000 terms in this newest member of the well-known Stedman's medical dictionary product family. 150 Illustrations. |
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1998 Mercer Guide to Social Security and Medicare
| Author - Dale Detlefs, Robert J. Myers (Contributor) |
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Medicare Made Easy
| Author - Charles B. Inlander, Michael A. Donio (Contributor) |
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| Brief Description - This easy-to-understand guidebook tells consumers how to choose a plan, research and select primary-care physicians, challenge plan practices, and file appeals. It offers the most current information on Medicare, explaining eligibility requirements, coverage, hospital information, long-term care, doctor fees, treatment options, and more. |
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