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"Follow the Money! Medical insurance plays an important role in the financial well-being of every healthcare business. The regulatory environment of medical insurance is now evolving faster than ever. Changes due to healthcare reform require medical office professionals to acquire and maintain an in-depth understanding of compliance, electronic health records, medical coding, and more. The eighth edition of Medical Insurance: A Revenue Cycle Process Approach emphasizes the revenue cycle steps that clearly identify all the components needed to successfully manage the medical insurance claims process. The cycle shows how administrative medical professionals "follow the money."

"Designed for undergraduate, graduate, and executive business ethics courses, Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader demonstrates that business ethics is primarily about the ethics of individuals. With a unique focus on the personal dimension of ethics, it challenges students to consider the relationship between the ways in which people do business and the kind of lives they want to live. It features 105 brief articles and 70 real-life case studies and poses study questions at the end of each reading and chapter. In addition, a chapter on leadership explores the relationship between leadership and ethical behavior in business"--

"This book explores various contemporary aspects of the growing field of housing, land and property (HLP) rights. HLP rights have undergone a major transformation in recent decades, but much remains to be done to bring their promise to the billions of people who have yet to access them. This work presents several innovative ways by which the entire field of HLP rights can be strengthened in support of those to whom they are promised by human rights laws. It outlines the author's suggestions for creating a new World Restitution Agency, expanding our understanding of the term 'internationally wrongful act' to HLP crimes, the links between mine action and HLP rights in post-conflict societies and the need to include HLP issues in peace agreements. The book concludes with several chapters that outline suggestions for better addressing climate displacement, including the need for national climate land banks, the role of the courts and how to re-distribute global wealth towards rehousing the millions set to be displaced from their homes and lands due to the effects of climate change. The volume will be essential reading for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of International Human Rights Law, Housing, Land and Property issues, Humanitarian issues and Climate Change"--

"Introduction to Global Health provides a comprehensive examination of the key global health issues today, and unlike other global health texts on the market, aligns with key global health frameworks such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in this fourth edition, the newly approved CUGH learning objectives"--

"In Empire of Commerce, Susan Gaunt Stearns takes readers back to a time when there was nothing inevitable about the United States' untrammeled westward expansion. Her work demonstrates the centrality of trade on and along the Mississippi River to the complex development of the political and economic structures that shaped the nascent American republic. Stearns's perspective-shifting book reconfigures our understanding of key postrevolutionary moments-the writing of the Constitution, the outbreak of the Whiskey Rebellion, and the Louisiana Purchase-and demonstrates how the transatlantic cotton trade finally set the stage for transforming an imagined west into something real."

"Law and Ethics: For Health Professions explains how to navigate the numerous legal and ethical issues that health care professionals face every day. Topics are based upon real-world scenarios and dilemmas from a variety of health care practitioners. Through the presentation of Learning outcomes, key terms, from the perspective of . . ., ethics issues, chapter reviews, case studies, internet activities, court cases, and videos, students learn about current legal and ethical problems and situations. In the ninth edition, material has been revised to reflect the current health care environment. As students progress through the text, they will get the opportunity to use critical thinking skills to learn how to resolve real-life situations and theoretical scenarios and to decide how legal and ethical issues are relevant to the health care profession in which they will practice"--

"Nicaragua Must Survive tells the story of the Sandinistas' innovative diplomatic campaign, which captured the imaginations of people around the globe and transformed Nicaraguan history at the tail end of the Cold War. The Sandinistas' diplomacy went far beyond elite politics, as thousands of musicians, politicians, teachers, activists, priests, feminists, and journalists flocked to the country to experience the revolution firsthand. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, Eline van Ommen reveals the role that Western Europe played in Nicaragua's revolutionary diplomacy. Blending grassroots organizing and formal foreign policy, pragmatic guerrillas, creative diplomats, and ambitious activists from Europe and the Americas were able to create an international environment in which the Sandinista Revolution could survive despite the odds. Nicaragua Must Survive argues that this diplomacy was remarkably effective, propelling Nicaragua into the global limelight and allowing the revolutionaries to successfully challenge the United States' role in Central America"--

"Deutschland und sein Sozialstaat" ist das abschließende Werk einer Trilogie, die 2020 ihren Anfang nahm und sich in ihren beiden vorausgegangenen Bänden mit den Themen Föderalismus und Finanzen beschäftigte. In der Auseinandersetzung mit diesen Aspekten unseres Staatswesens kristallisierte sich eine Erkenntnis heraus: Vielen Menschen in Deutschland ist der Überblick verloren gegangen, wie unser Land in diesen grundsätzlichen Fragen eigentlich funktioniert. Dieser fehlende Überblick führt bei manchen bis hin zur Ablehnung unseres demokratisch verfassten Staats. Vieles ist gegenwärtig ungewiss: Aufgrund der Coronapandemie und des russischen Angriffskriegs auf die Ukraine wurde in den vergangenen Jahren so viel über die Themen Föderalismus, Finanzen und Sozialstaat diskutiert wie selten zuvor. Bei vielen Bürgerinnen und Bürgern macht sich derweil die Sorge bemerkbar, wie viel Sozialstaat wir uns noch leisten können. Immerhin: Nicht viele andere Länder verfügen über ein so gut ausgebautes soziales Sicherungssystem oder über so ergiebige finanzielle Mittel wie wir. Die oftmals verstrüppt erscheinenden Finanzverflechtungen und Organisationsstrukturen, welche die stark bürokratisierte Verwaltung in unserem Land durchziehen, gelten auch für den deutschen Sozialstaat. Vielen Bürgerinnen und Bürgern ist oftmals nicht bewusst, auf welche Leistungen sie Anspruch haben oder auch nicht - und wer für deren Finanzierung überhaupt verantwortlich ist. Hier besteht Handlungsbedarf! Bevölkerungsentwicklung, Gesundheitswesen, Rente, Pflege, Bildung - das sind nur einige der gravierenden und drängenden Themen, für die Deutschland über den Tag hinaus tragfähige und finanzierbare Lösungen finden muss. Vieles wird derzeit diskutiert, aber nicht grundlegend entschieden. Denn Ziel muss ja sein, weiterhin in Deutschland einen zukunftsfähigen Sozialstaat zu entwickeln, der gerade individuelle Entfaltungsperspektiven ermöglicht. Unser Band "Deutschland und sein Sozialstaat" soll zur Diskussion und Beitragsfindung einladen.

"Taking a strategic imperative perspective, this book introduces business leaders to a key differentiator that contributes to competitive advantage and financial sustainability: cultural competence. In a fast changing and globalized world where organizations are being forced to rethink their strategies, understanding present and future environmental, social, and economic challenges is fundamental to creating a resilient and value-creating business. Combining experience and reflection, this book addresses concepts of organizational cultural competence as an internal differentiator and source of competitive advantage. Most organizations approach differentiation as an external feature of product and/or service delivery. Whereas these are open to imitation, cultural competence, as the internal DNA of an organization, is much more difficult, if not impossible, to imitate. The authors bring to bear their years of experience in corporate roles and as entrepreneurs and academics, sharing views and experiences based on research but also on primary examples, meta-insights, and real-world case studies. Senior leaders and consultants across industries, as well as students of strategy and leadership development, will value this serious and comprehensive guide that explains the importance of cultural competence as a strategic advantage in a global market"--