Overview
With this easy-to-follow, hands-on guide, you will be completely prepared for your first medical assisting job. Computerized Medical Office Procedures, a Worktext Using Medisoft Version 14 covers the most common administrative and financial functions that a medical assistant performs. Step-by-step procedures walk you through basic tasks - everything from how to input patient information to appointment scheduling to billing insurance companies to accounting procedures - and more. Concepts are presented in small, easy-to-digest segments, and a two-week simulation lets you apply the skills you have learned. Written by educator William D. Larsen, this book helps you develop the front-office competencies you need!
• Easy-to-read, conversational writing style makes it easy to follow and understand even difficult concepts.
• Step-by-step procedures with accompanying computer screens guide you through each administrative task.
• Learning objectives emphasize the most important points to help you get the most out of each chapter.
• Checking Your Understanding helps you review the key points of each chapter.
• Putting It into Practice activities make it easy to apply software concepts.
• Day-by-Day Simulations provide you with experience similar to working in a real-world medical office.
• Medisoft software offers hands-on practice with a real-world practice management system. Sold separately.
• Collections in the Medical Office chapter covers the use of Medisoft to perform such tasks as creating collection letters, entering a tickler item, and printing collection trace reports.
• The Elsevier Clinic may be used in performing Medisoft tasks.
• Reminders at the end of each chapter help you develop the useful habit of backing up your data.
• New HOW TO document on the Evolve website explains how to save printed assignments as PDF files so you can e-mail assignments to instructors.
Synopsis
This innovative new worktext with CD-ROM familiarizes readers with both general computer applications and medical office management software, giving them the confidence and skills to succeed as a medical office assistant. The companion CD-ROM features an easy-to-use, scaled-down version of Lytec Medical 2001 software, already populated with fictional medical office data for practice that mimics an actual medical office environment. All aspects of computerized administrative and financial functions in the medical office are addressed - from new patient entry to scheduling, billing, and insurance claims processing. As each concept builds on material from earlier chapters, the reader's knowledge is solidified through chapter-opening objectives and vocabulary, step-by-step procedures, in-text exercises, special hints, chapter summaries, and several assessment exercises at the end of each chapter.
• A scaled-down version of Lytec Medical 2001 software on CD-ROM is packaged with the text, populated with fictional medical office data that enables readers to manipulate the program exactly as they would in an actual medical office environment.
• A week-long simulation, in which the reader must "create" a fictional medical practice from the ground up, incorporates many common situations and tasks from an actual medical office.
• Step-by-step procedures break skills and information into easily manageable segments so the reader can proceed at his or her own pace and review material as needed.
• Exercises are interspersed through chapter discussions, often directly following procedures, providing immediate reinforcement of skills and theories.
• Incomplete information in the exercises forces the reader to obtain missing material from source documents (included in the appendix), reinforcing strategies for dealing with gaps in information.
• Several self-assessment sections at the end of each chapter - Using Terminology, Checking Your Understanding, and Putting it into Practice - help the reader keep tabs on his or her own learning.
• Hints in the text alert readers to common mistakes and/or problems often encountered when using the Lytec software.
• Over 200 computer screen shots provide visual, step-by-step examples that guide the user through complicated procedures.