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Administrative Procedures for Medical Assisting

English · Hardback

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Soar into the career of your choice with medical assisting's high growth potential, diversity of skills and workplace locations. Today's medical assistants are always expanding and changing as the healthcare environment changes. Medical Assisting: Administrative Procedures with Anatomy and Physiology was updated to help students as well as instructors learn these ever-changing tasks and stay current in the healthcare environment. This text is a condensed version of Booth, Medical Assisting, and offers only the units related to the administrative responsibilities. This includes units 1, 2, 3, 4 and 9.


List of contents










Unit One: Medical Assisting as a Career
1 Introduction to Medical Assisting
2 Healthcare and the Healthcare Team
3 Professionalism and Success
4 Interpersonal Communication
5 Legal and Ethical Issues
Unit Two: Safety and the Environment
6 Infection Control Fundamentals
7 Safety and Patient Reception
8 Office Equipment and Supplies
9 Examination and Treatment Areas
Unit Three: Communication
10 Written and Electronic Documents
11 Medical Records and Documentation
12 Electronic Health Records
13 Managing Medical Records
14 Telephone Techniques
15 Patient Education
Unit Four: Administrative Practices
16 Schedule Management
17 Insurance and Billing
18 Diagnostic Coding
19 Procedure Coding
20 Patient Collections and Financial Management
Unit Nine: Medical Assisting Practice
56 Practice Management
57 Emergency Preparedness
58 Preparing for the World of Work
App 1 Diseases and Disorders
App 2 Prefixes, Suffixes, and Word Roots in Commonly Used Medical Terms
App 3 Abbreviations and Symbols Commonly Used in Medical Notations


About the author










Kathryn A. Booth, RN-BSN, RMA (AMT), RPT, CPhT, MS is a registered nurse (RN) with a master's degree in education as well as certifications in phlebotomy, pharmacy tech, and medical assisting. She is an author, an educator, and a consultant for Total Care Programming, Inc. She has over 30 years of teaching, nursing, and healthcare experience that spans five states. As an educator, Kathy has been awarded the teacher of the year in three states where she taught various health sciences, including medical assisting in both a classroom and an online capacity. Kathy serves on the AMT Examinations, Qualifications, and Standards committee, as well as the advisory board for two educational institutions. She stays current through working at various practice settings as well as obtaining and maintaining certifications. Her larger goal is to develop up-to-date, dynamic healthcare educational materials to assist her and other educators and to promote healthcare professions. In addition, Kathy enjoys presenting innovative new learning solutions for the changing healthcare and educational landscape to her fellow professionals nationwide.


Product details

Authors Kathryn Booth, Kathryn A Booth, Kathryn A./ Whicker Booth, Booth Kathryn, Leesa Whicker, Whicker Leesa, Terri Wyman, Terri D Wyman
Publisher Mcgraw Hill Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.04.2024
 
EAN 9781264965632
ISBN 978-1-264-96563-2
No. of pages 542
Dimensions 216 mm x 279 mm x 32 mm
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General

NON-CLASSIFIABLE, Medicine: general issues, Stationery and miscellaneous items

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