week 4 for Introduction to Healthcare Insurance Coding, Billing and Reimbursement
week 4 for Introduction to Healthcare Insurance Coding, Billing and Reimbursement
Instructions Supporting Lectures: Review the following lecture: • Medicare and Medicaid Introduction: Medicare and Medicaid are federal programs that cover a large proportion of the US population with healthcare. The two have similar objectives in the area of providing care, but there are significant differences in them that concern reimbursement. Tasks: • Describe each program, Medicare and Medicaid. • Provide the major features of each program. • Discuss how these programs differ from each other. • Briefly describe the process of how to bill for each program. Submission Details: • Submit this topic as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document. Use APA standards for citations and references. • Cite a minimum of three outside peer-reviewed sources to support your assertions and save it as SU_HCM1201_W4_Project_LastName_FirstInitial.doc. Submit the report to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned. • Cite any sources using correct APA format on a separate page.