Insurance in Business & Economics Books

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<p><i>"For anyone who needs to understand different types of life insurance, as well as considerations for purchasing and managing policies, this book should be on your nearby reference shelf. If you've frequently found yourself fumbling around with terminology, such as the differences between variable, universal, and variable universal life (VUL) policies, you'll finally see some light through the haze."</i> - MorningstarAdvisor.com</p> <p>Life insurance doesn't have to be complex or intimidating. Ben Baldwin's completely revised and updated guidebook makes it clear and logical, discussing how to analyze insurance products based on their investment merits and best overall financial returns. This clear, authoritative resource for consumer insurance information covers the pros and cons of Internet purchases, techniques to use capital within a policy, the fixed premium feature, insurance for different stages of life, and the new emergence of "immediate annuities."</p>

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Understanding Health Insurance: A Guide to Professional Billing, 7th edition, is a comprehensive guide for those learning about health insurance claims processing and reimbursement issues. The text utilizes a step-by-step approach to successful completion of health insurance claims. The objectives of this edition are to 1) introduce information about major third party payers, 2) provide up-to-date information about federal health care regulations, 3) clarify coding guidelines and provide application exercises for each coding system, 4) introduce reimbursement issues, 5) emphasize the importance of coding for medical necessity, and 6) help users develop the skill to complete claims accurately. Numerous examples help clarify key concepts. Case studies and review exercises provide users with numerous opportunities to apply knowledge and develop skills in completing CMS-1500 claims accurately. The textbook CD-ROM and accompanying workbook provide additional exercises and practice in completing CMS-1500 claims electronically. Current information is provided on CPT-5 and ICD-10-CM coding systems. The appendices include information about processing UB-92 (CMS-1450) claims and dental claims.

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<P><B></B>This current, accurate and detailed industry guide for financial service professionals examines life and health insurance <I>simultaneously from the viewpoints of the buyer, the advisor, and the insurer</I>-providing a comprehensive and unbiased treatise on individual and group life; a forthright appraisal of life and health insurance industry products with careful consideration of the environment; and a complete examination of life insurance company operations and regulation. <B></B> Bases financial treatment of life insured operations on modern financial theory, and devotes entire chapters to the economics of life and health insurance; individual life and health insurance policies; life and health insurance evaluation; the uses of life and health insurance in personal and business planning; government and employee benefit plans; and the management, operation, and regulation of life insurance companies. Offers a strong global orientation, supporting fundamental concepts with an extensive integration of economic and financial theory and international comparisons, and examines how today's health insurance products fit into a broad framework from a contractual, cost, and performance viewpoints. New chapters on the tax treatment of life and health insurance address such areas as estate planning, retirement planning, and the business uses of life and health insurance. <B></B> For financial planners, salesmen, actuaries, investment managers, attorneys, CPAs, and other financial service professionals. </P>

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<p>If you are studying for your life and health insurance licensing exam, we have the ultimate study tool for you. <i>Life and Health Insurance License Exam Cram</i> is a great resource to help you learn the concepts, laws, rate calculations and state and federal regulations that will be covered on the exam. You'll also receive a CD that includes a fully-customizable test engine, detailed score report and state-specific law supplement. No matter where you are taking your exam or which area you need to focus on during your studying, <i>Life and Health Insurance License Exam Cram</i> is your smartest way to get certified.</p>

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For many years, introductory insurance textbooks presented insurance as a subject based in contracts. Slowly, the course has moved toward a consumer orientation, providing students with a broad, descriptive survey of the insurance field, covering topics such as legal aspects, life and health, and property and liability. Over the past 10 years, textbooks began to promote, and to a limited degree, incorporate a stronger business risk management component while maintaining a consumer orientation. Harrington/Niehaus' Risk Management and Insurance 2e is written to take the next step offering the essential aspects of insurance contracts and the insurance industry while providing a substantially more conceptual analysis and attention to business risk management and public policy issues that exists in current texts.

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This text is structured to reflect a day in the life of an insurance codding and billing specialist. Using a "layered learning" concept, the student will move through the book in a logical progression, building upon each element learned at each stage of the reimbursement process. Students will learn to carefully glean pertinent data to code accurately from review and analysis of: a.) Superbills, b.) Provider's notes, c.) Referral authorization forms, and d.) New patient information forms.

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<p>If you are preparing for a career in property and casualty insurance, you need to pick up a copy of <i>Property and Casualty Insurance License Exam Cram</i>. You will quickly learn the concepts, laws, rate calculations and state and federal regulations that will be covered on the exam. You'll also receive a CD that includes a fully-customizable test engine, detailed score report and state-specific law supplement. No matter where you are taking your exam or which area you need to focus on in your studies, <i>Property and Casualty Insurance License Exam Cram</i> is your smartest way to get certified.</p>

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The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the Enron scandal both highlighted the importance of risk management and insurance. Giving particular attention to the market's increased sense of vulnerability and the newest technologies, Risk Management and Insurance provides a clear introduction to the complexities of this field. With chapters on topics such as e-risks and enterprise risk and a focus on connecting each chapter into the bigger picture, Baranoff's approach is to show students how the latest developments and the field's traditional approaches fit together.

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A comprehensive guide to health insurance claim processing that contains pertinent information on common health insurance plans, and coding systems, reimbursement issues, and step-by-step instructions for HCFA-1500 claim completion. CD-ROM in text and accompanying workbook provide additional opportunities to apply material and practice in completing HCFA-1500 forms. Contains new information regarding ICD-10-CM and HCFA reimbursement issues. (key words: health care insurance, HCFA-1500, Insurance claim form)

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This consumer-oriented text focuses on the policy holder as opposed to the insurer. "Consumer Applications" and expanded "Risk Management Case Problems" provide opportunities for students to apply what they have learned. New coverage in this edition includes integrated discussion of ethics and expanded coverage of business risk management as well as employee benefits.

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Introductory Stochastic Finance for Actuaries is an introductory level book on stochastic analysis for finance. It is specifically written for actuaries who would like to learn stochastic modeling techniques in a user-friendly and self-contained manner. The book introduces the basic theories of stochastic processes and stochastic calculus, and provides the necessary tool kits for modeling and pricing in finance and insurance. While rigorous concepts are presented when appropriate, the emphasis is on applications, intuition, and computation rather than on the theory.

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