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While this book is full of useful information, it seems better suited to the novice than to someone with experience. I can see how the book may provide insights into how client accounting works, but I found very little that I could apply to my own job as a client accounting/billing coordinator. If you work at a large, established firm, or hope to find employment in one, avoid this book. These firms already have their own entrenched systems with extensive training. This book will be useful if you are with a smaller firm or one just starting out. It will assist with ideas on how to establish your own systems.

Example contracts are limited in scope. They are for accountants doing audits and engineers doing design and as a result are difficult to generalize on. Does not cover international contract and fee problems. Sections on generating exposure and finding a niche are well written but off of the topic.

I am almost through the book and have found it helpful. However, the main reason I bought this book in particular was because it came with a practice disk. Guess what? The disk doesn't work. I emailed Glencoe and they told me to call Medisoft, and they told me to call Glencoe. If you're not taking a class, do not buy this book.

This book has the look, feel, and tone of an extended law review article. The author is a professor at a law school in Alabama with numerous law review articles to his credit, so the tone is not surprising.

Before he entered academe, however, the author spent nine years practicing law in New York City and is clearly wise to the ways of the big firm world periodically lampooned in places like _The American Lawyer_.

This book is largely descriptive and not prescriptive, and at times has an ingenuously horrified tone at the sharp billing practices chronicled through the use of an impressive variety of resources. Nonetheless, most professionals who log their time and use it for billing will find something to make them squirm.

Unfortunately the conclusions were only three pages of a 264-page book, and a number of other conclusions were scattered throughout the preceding chapters. More unified conclusions would have been helpful.

Worth struggling through if you want to take a cold hard look at how you do your timesheets.

Hospital and physician payment systems are very important today and its importance is increasing every day. Using DRG and other methods of connecting payment with services is a must in the healthcare system in a new millenium. The book is focused on the United States and gives good examples of the developement of payment systems in various states. It's a little outdated today and it's quite expensive but overall a very useful insight into the use of DRG and payment systems in USA in real practice.

i dont understand how a book can go from 10.95 to 49.95, that is information highway robbery!

The book is pretty good in that it helps you to think a little deeper in actually reading the bible. It does, however, refer to many other books, and would best be read if you had all the books it refers to, as well as a bible and time to actually read all that is said. But it's good in referring you to a deeper thought proccess of how everyone takes different readings of the bible.

I was very disappointed. This piece of work contains several errors, including the big, bold, Disclaimer on the first page. It reminded me of a college term paper that would receive a C- or D. The few forms included are not accurate or useable; the pages are not numbered; there is no index. It did include one form for Overpayment Refunds and 2 pages on Railroad Medicare, both of which in my opinion has nothing to do with "...Starting Your Own Medial Billing Business." Sorry Darlene, I want my money back. George Joynson

A primer on reading and interpreting coding on medical bills, insurance company lingo, reimbursement issues, and a general how-to guide for the patient dealing with obtaining optimal payment from insurance companies for medical procedures. This book could be a valuable tool for the individual with limited coverage. However, the coding system is so overwhelming, with widely differing prices for what appears to be the same procedure. For example, I counted 15 different laparoscopic pelvic procedures for endometriosis. Determining what an actual fee should be based on this book is difficult. And it is doubtful you would find a doctor's office staff willing to explain why a certain service was billed under a certain code. A good idea in theory, but probably difficult to obtain.