Health Insurance Today - Text and Workbook Package: A Practical Approach
This money saving package includes the 3rd edition of Health Insurance Today Textbook and Workbook.
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Improving Healthcare Using Toyota Lean Production Methods: 46 Steps for Improvement, Second Edition
What differentiates this book from other healthcare improvement books is that it is the only currently available book that presents a simple recipe of 46 lean steps for healthcare providers to reduce cost and improve quality. By taking these straightforward steps, healthcare providers can adopt the same lean methods which have enabled companies like Toyota to become so successful. The first part of the book explains cost and quality issues facing U.S. healthcare. From that understanding, the second part then teaches healthcare providers a 46-step recipe to reduce costs and improve quality by using Toyota Lean Production methods. With industry experts citing that as much as 40% of the total cost of healthcare production is attributed to wasteful processes, it is logical that reducing waste will lower costs. This is the basis of this book. Although other books have presented Toyota’s lean methods, this book goes further by showing how to directly apply those successful methods to healthcare, where they are sorely needed. This book is intended to be a practical manual for healthcare providers to use to improve quality and reduce costs. It can be a multi-year strategic plan for healthcare providers to adopt. This second edition includes additional improvement steps and five new appendices of practical examples authored by renowned lean experts.
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Right of Center America describes where America’s federal budget and national debt are today and details how they can be brought under control. This book is not about ideological battles. It is not about the Right vs. Left. It does not rehash the same tired arguments about spending reductions versus tax increases. Instead it provides simple, detailed solutions to reduce the federal budget and national debt. These solutions involve both decreasing some and increasing other federal department’s budgets and cutting some and increasing other taxes. Some recommendations you might have heard before, but most are new ideas, especially when dealing with America’s biggest challenges. In addition to addressing the federal budget and national debt, Right of Center America also solves the biggest challenges facing America. 1) An energy plan that drastically reduces America’s dependency on foreign oil AND idles all coal, petroleum, and gas fueled power plants over the next 45 years. 2) An education plan ensures EVERY American has access to the best possible education. 3) Health Care reform that actually decreases the COST of Health Care by more than 20 percent and provides insurance coverage for those Americans that cannot afford it. 4) Economic and tax policy that will spur long-term investment in AMERICAN companies. 5) Entitlement reform that GUARANTEES safety-net programs, Social Security, and Medicare benefits. 6) A reigning in of defense and foreign policy spending. 7) Common sense immigration reform with a secure border and work-to-citizenship visas. 
Election and judicial reform that increase government transparency and turnover. Product Description: How can the U.S. decrease its national debt by 60 percent over the next twenty years while solving the most pressing challenges of today? Many books explain the problems presented by the current U.S. fiscal federal budget crisis, but none provide a comprehensive proposal to correct it. Right of Center America not only details the federal budget, it provides a specific plan that eliminates the federal deficit and reduces the national debt. The book details a strategy of how federal programs should be evaluated and the resulting analysis of this review. Right of Center America shows what America can do when it is fiscally responsible. Detailed, innovative plans are presented that would fix America’s biggest challenges. Entitlements are made solvent. Health care costs are reduced and insurance coverage is provided for the poor. Every American is guaranteed the best public education by empowering both the teacher and the parent. Illegal immigration is curtailed. An energy plan is detailed that drastically reduces the use of petroleum and coal over the next 30 years. A fiscally responsible foreign policy is introduced. Common sense economic, tax, election, and judicial reforms are presented. These challenges are solved while reducing the deficit and without massive tax increases. Nowhere else will you find such creative, simple, and feasible solutions. Right of Center America is written for those Americans who are not ideologically tied to a political party. This book focuses on fiscal matters and does not delve into social issues. This biggest problems facing America today, the problems that will cripple the next generation of Americans, are fiscal issues. With a national debt exceeding $13 trillion, an annual federal budget deficit close to $500 billion, and interest payments approaching $500 billion per year, this book is a must read. If you only read one chapter of my book, please read chapter seven. I provide detailed examples on how to reduce the cost of health care by a conservative 21% without the need for federally managed health care system. In fact, my plan would actually result in a reduction of health care costs by more than a third, but I only use worst-case scenarios in my figures. More importantly, I believe this could be a bipartisan plan that both parties could support.
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Intended to demystify the payment of insurance claims, Outcomes in Coding Practice: A Roadmap from Provider to Payer provides insight into coding from the payer perspective. By understanding the rules, laws and contracts HMO, PPOs or Medicare must consider when payment decision are made, you will be able to make the correct coding choices and improve the claim to payment ratio for your medical office. Coverage includes the Correct Coding Initiative, HMO and PPO contracts, Medicare and Medicaid, CPT Modifiers, how to improve compliance and manage provider disputes
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Presimetrics: What the Facts Tell Us About How the Presidents Measure Up On the Issues We Care About
The authors cut through party bias to present the quantifiable facts about how modern presidents have performed on critical national issues
Politicians and the media spend a lot of time telling Americans how the presidents and their administrations are performing, but this analysis always skews along party lines. In Presimetrics, Kimel and Kanell take a fresh look at modern politics by gathering data from numerous government sources in order to compare and rank presidential performance on critical issues, from employment and health care to taxes and family values. The results frequently defy expectations:
• Reagan, godfather of neoconservatives, increased the federal workforce more than any president since LBJ
• Clinton, a hero to Democrats, cut funding for the NEA by a larger percentage than any other president
• Nixon/Ford outperformed all administrations on Democratic issues like Federal spending on social programs
The lively text clearly explains how various policies of each administration affect the data, and fascinating information graphics lend even greater depth to the discussion, showing at a glance how multiple administrations stack up.
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