Insurance Book List: C

State by State Guide: Insurance Book List: C:

"You do not have to tolerate delays, arbitrary decisions, and indifference when presenting a claim to your insurance company. When you have a loss, you need help, and you need it right now. This book strips away the mystery surrounding the insurance claim settlement process and will help you get the insurance money to which you are entitled."

"A practical, easy to read, easy to understand guide for anyone with an insurance claim to gather the necessary information, place a value on the claim and present the information to an insurance company representative in a compelling and convincing way. The book explains why, in most cases, a lawyer is not needed to collect insurance money. Included are discussions of bodily injuries, damage to cars, what information is needed to convince an insurance adjuster of the value of the claim and methods of negotiating for the best recovery possible. The best part is that people following these methods then get to keep all the money for themselves instead of sharing up to one-half of it with a lawyer. The book even covers relationships with lawyers, if one has already been hired."

"Quick reference to the basics of coding for physician services and provides additional assistance with coding and billing problems. Includes tips on how to be concise. For medical coders. Softcover. DNLM: Insurance, Health, Reimbursement-classification handbooks."

From Ingram
"Buying life insurance is an increasingly difficult decision because of the many new options--such as annuities--now available. In a user friendly style, this book walks the potential buyers through the basics of selecting life insurance, from figuring out how much coverage is really needed to whether to invest in premiums."

"Whether you're exploring options for yourself or for your aging parents, you know that navigating the world of health care services and long-term-care facilities can be a daunting task. Consumer Reports, unrivaled in its unbiased expertise, provides the essential guide to getting the best care.

"Filled with hands-on practical advice in a user-friendly tone and format, this invaluable handbook will help you find the right services and secure them at the lowest cost. How can you take advantage of pharmaceutical company drug-assistance programs? What essential services should a home health aide provide? How can you calculate annual health care expenses? How do you decipher a state survey report for a nursing home? Where can you find adult day care? What should you look for in an assisted-living contract? You'll find the answers to these and hundreds of other questions in this book, including:

The ins and outs of paying for health care services, including Medicare coverage and insurance options.
How to find the best long-term care, whether at home or in the community, whether you're looking at assisted-living facilities or nursing homes -- and how to pay for it.
City-by-city ratings for Medicare HMOs and Medicare supplement insurance policies, as well as a guide to how well your state is monitoring nursing homes.
Easy-to-use worksheets and tables to help you figure out your assets, judge an assisted-living facility, compare home care costs, evaluate an HMO drug plan, and much, much more.
Comprehensive appendixes to guide you to state-by-state information on insurance counseling, advocacy groups for the elderly, other helpful organizations, and more."

"Choosing the right health plan can make a big difference for your health, for the convenience and pleasantness of the service you get, and for your health care costs.

"The best plans sign up good doctors and hospitals. They help their doctors give good care through training and information programs, reminder systems for following up with patients, and other kinds of support. They continually measure how well the doctors and their patients are doing.

"The worst plans put obstacles in the way of good care at every turn. They contract only with lower quality doctors and hospitals. They make it hard to get referrals to specialists. They delay or deny approvals for needed tests, treatments, and drugs. And they wear you down with arbitrary rules, bureaucratic hassles, unresponsive staff, and pointless paperwork.

"Fortunately, there are many good plans, and many of these are among the more reasonable in cost. This book will steer you to them - with ratings of 385 plans throughout the U.S.

"You will see that, in Consumers' Checkbook's survey of nearly 20,000 physicians who have participated in the plans, some plans were rated favorably for the quality of their patient care by more than 80 percent of the physicians who rated them; other plans got favorable ratings from fewer than 30 percent of their physicians.

"You will see significant differences in how plans were rated by their patients, in a survey of more than 200,000 patients. And you will see that some plans do much better than others on direct measures of patient care, such as, giving the proper medications to patients after a heart attack.

"What's more, you will learn how to choose a relatively low-cost plan. And you will learn how to get the best possible care through whatever plan you choose.

"This book is the best available guide for individuals and families of all sizes and all ages, young and old, including Medicare beneficiaries."

"Annual includes more than 700 code and guideline changes and the new Category III 'Emerging Technology' subsection. Includes color keys, illustrations, thumb-tabs, and references to the CPT Assistant newsletter and CPT Changes text..."

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