Understanding Hospital Coding and Billing: A Worktext, Second Edition, is your complete guide to the world of hospital billing from patient intake through the entire billing process, covering inpatient and outpatient coding and billing. This resource presents concepts in an outline format, with room in the margins to take notes, and practice exercises and case studies to test your knowledge. An appendix of inpatient and outpatient case scenarios is available for use with SimClaim UB-04 practice software for electronic claims completion.