Billings Books

This is a great resource for those wanting to learn more about billing. It is more of a high level resource than detail on exactly how to bill. It worked great for me!

inside this book give me a lot of information about how to build a good some water garden.

THIS IS A SOOOOOOOOOOO AWSOME BOOK! It helps with tons of things like Social Studies and is fun to just read around! I borowed one from my teacher and now I have one for myself!
RECOMENDED FOR ANY1! INCLUDING PEOPLE OVER 12!

Great book - should be required reading for all high school students (everyone for that matter) as far as I'm concerned.

"The Ultimate Gift" is an absolute MUST READ book. It is filled with life events that are changed to obtain the ultimate gift.

Success is a journey and nothing demonstrates this concept better than this book. Inheriting all the money in the world doesn't do anything for you if you haven't earned or achieved something yourself.

I am a special education teacher in a junior high school. I use the audio version of popular and classic literature in my classroom. This allows my students to experience stories that they otherwise would miss out on. The Ultimate Gift was the first book that we read this year and my students loved it. This heart warming story brings to life the transition of one young man from a spoiled brat to a caring, compassionate young adult. It is a must read for adults and students alike.

This is a great book for the whole family. Good values detailed in an easy read story.

I have not taken the nclex as of yet, but it has helped out in taking tests in the courses I am in now. I am able to go directly to a subject I would like to study and answer practice questions. I also love being able to do this on the go with my pda/phone.

this is a good book, it help me pass my test in school. recommended for nclex.

You have to do more and more Questions to build you confidance... and remember you should be feeling happy to make more mistakes and have more wrong answers while reviewing, Cause that give you a new information that you will need during the real test. practice more and more

I ordered this book on Monday and had it by Thursday. I haven't used it much yet, but it's full of information and questions. There's also a cd that has like 1,000 more questions on it.

I bought this book halfway through nursing school, and I wish I'd bought it sooner. This book is very helpful and broken down into adult med-surg, adult psych, pediatrics, and maternal nursing categories. Then it's broken down further into more specific topics, like certain conditions or disorders. This was great for me because I could review the questions for topics we covered and could skip the ones we didn't. It also comes with a CD with around 500 practice questions with review and test mode. The answers are given after the section instead of one big index at the back, which I also found convenient. The format is very organized and effective. I highly recommend this book.

The book was a quick and easy read. I am a physical therapist operating 5 privately owned clinics. I was hoping to find a resource to improve the efficiency of our billing and collections processes, but this was not it. This book provides a basic description of what technology can and should do to assist a practice operate more effectively, but there are no real world answers. I read it, but then was happy to resell it. Not a resource worth keeping.

I got the feeling that all the reviews here are 'I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine'. This book is a Software Requirements for EHR/EMR. It is overpriced and is a blatant marketing material for a software system that the author endorses. Its name appears at least once on a page. The book has some merits but it should be half the price.

Providers face complex billing problems in the stacked marketplace
that payers have created with their leading edge into large-scale
systems. In this cogent work, the author has integrated many
distributed systems concepts (e.g., Straight Through Processing,
Business Process Interoperability, Software as a Service, Network
effects, etc.) in ways that offer a practical process innovation to
address the cumbersome and risk-prone billing processes inherent in
the field of medical practice management. This book not only describes
an elegant software solution - the author also brings to life the
nature of these underlying problems from the multiple perspectives
that help readers to understand as if they were given a tour through
the system by a resident expert.

Most billing services stall because the founders start a business without the necessary skills, methodology, or technology to run a scalable business. They quickly discover that managing a growing business requires different skills than familiarity of billing or great fun at coding. Medical billing business is especially difficult because it must succeed in an adversarial business environment, where providers may overcharge the payers and payers may underpay the providers.

Practicing Profitability is a pragmatic look at the complex medical billing process from entrepreneurial perspective. It is also a first-hand personal account of a pioneering development of a powerful system to run a solid and scalable medical billing business, including professionally managed processes, leading-edge technology, and outsourced and off-shored personnel. If you plan to build a medical billing business or if you have already built one but you don't know how to improve its profitability or scale it up - buy this book and keep it close for frequent reference.

Maureen Ennis, Certified Facilitator and Business Coach
The Alternative Board
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I love books that take me beyond theoretical discussions about complex problems and show real life solutions! Dr. Lirov has not only developed a powerful approach to an amazingly complex problem but also explained it in simple and straightforward terms.

Practicing Profitability is a great book about an awesome system that packs in plenty of practical ideas for many medical billing problems. A must read.

Nissim Daunov
REMIKA LLC
Management Consulting

I would recommmend this book to all future and current educators. It enlightens the reader with both knowledge and compassion. The author goes deep into the heart of education and gives examples that are actually useful in the classroom. This book has also earned a spot of my personal "good education" book list because it was written by a teacher who knows the system, the students, and the career.

I recommend this book to any individual entering the field of education. No, other book gives such brilliant ideas for reform in the area of public education. The book is full of ideas allowing for every teacher to become more involved with their students, communities, and school corporations. A definite necessity needed for the classroom for all beginning teachers.

The author does an excellent job of explaining "how to" methods of teaching. Explaining how to build relationships and raise standards through methods beyond testing. Any perspective or current teacher looking for ways to reach their students by bridging the gap between the role of teacher and student should read this book.

This book is one that each and every teacher should read. It is valuable not only because of the content (which is exceptional), it is also very easy to read. I would recommend this book to any teacher.

I really appreciated this book. Ayers is very passionate about a teacher's responsibility to help their students become complete human beings. Reading this book, and Grant Wiggins Understanding by Design, in a graduate class renewed my passion for teaching, which is really a passion for learning. Education should be about the big questions of life, not just the details and basic skills that are tested and required by the state and federal government.

Ayers is committed to developing whole and complete human beings, not automatons.

My only issue is with his emphasis on social justice as the focus of education. While I agree that a concern for social justice will emerge in people who think for themselves, it seems as if his recommendations force this concern on kids a little too heavyhandedly. If we are to be independent, complete people, then naturally what concerns us will not always be the same. Nevertheless, his emphasis is better than many who want us to just teach kids to read words and add and subtract, but don't really care if they can think for themselves.

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"The Christmas Menorahs" witnesses an event that
reveals how an ordinarily silent majority can address
a hate-mongering minority effectively. It can be done!
Story is beautifully told and illustrated. Good for
children as well as adults.

This is a very important book - written for children yet making the story accessible to many adults too. Would that all adults could set the example of the adults in this story.

Our kids have turned this into a play, which they have enacted the past three years at Chanukah. It's an important about tolerance fighting hate.

This is an important story for Jewish and non-Jewish children.

This is one of the best books for kids during the holidays (or year round for that matter). It's great for adults too, I look forward to reading it every Hanukah.

I remember that night in December 1993. As Christians, we displayed the full paged Menorah from the Billings Gazette in our window. It was a message to the skinhead(s) that hatred and bigotry have NO place in Billings, Montana or anywhere else.

I just read Charles Evered's book----and MAN, is it amazing---This guy can write. One minute I was laughing, the next I was crying---and I NEVER cry at anything. Buy this book, put on these plays and savor the talent, man---really.

I really liked this book. It was fun and fast to read

I really for the most part enjoyed this book. It seems like they would play very well on stage. Good stuff and thoughtful too.

These plays are super. They would appeal to everyone. The only criticism I have is that some of them are pretty dark at times, but good writing none the less.

I'm not much for reading plays, but as they go--these were fun and easy to read. They are sad and funny at the same time. A good read.

I always was thinking in buy or not this book becasue of some other customer opinions, so i took the risk and bought it.
Great book, a lot of information regrading tips for inductor, transformer, softstart, step-down and flyback, it has many pages about everything abouth SMPS and Linear Supply.
If you want a book for reference on SMPS, buy this one, it has many examples, calculations, etc, and is a pleasure read this book.
You will receive what you pay.
Saludos...

I bought this book as a complement to Abraham I. Pressman's Switching Power Supply Design.

These two books are very similar, but do not overlap all that much. I am glad to have them both.

This book can be used as a textbook or as a reference. It is so well organised you can find what you need very fast through the table of contents. Concepts are supported by schematics and graphs.

I am using this book to learn analog design and to learn to build my own switching power supplies.

I recently purchased both this book, and Switching Power Supply Design by Abraham I. Pressman. I had cursory knowledge of SMPS from datasheets and appnotes from National Semiconductors and IRF.

Overall, i like the other book better. The chapter layouts speak to the intended purpose of the books. In this book, the progression is from the start of an off-line power supply to then end. instead of starting with what the switching power supply is, and such, this book starts with input circuitry and startup methods. some suitable off-line topolgies are detailed. It is only later in the book that the basic switching power supplies, like the buck converter are detailed. It makes sense -- these supplies are billed for regulation in the book.

I found some of this book annoying. for instance, the author often refers to bifilar windings. there is no glossary entry for this. the index refers to multiple pages where "bifilar" is mentioned, but it is never defined. Similarly, "flyback" is not defined.

if you want to learn power supplies, i reccomend the book by Abraham I. Pressman over this one.

This book does an excelent job of providing facts and information needed to design switchmode supplies. It gives numerical examples and shows the underlying theories.

I did the right thing - I ordered this AND the venerable Abrahamson book.

Up until that time I had only discerned the subject in hints and veiled inter departmental discussions - and it was the start of a wonderful two months period in which so much was revealed - I have rarely enjoyed a book so much! Now look, I don't work for Mr Amazon.com, but I would urge you to get both. This book (the one by Keith Billings) has lots of detail which the Abrahamson book skips a wee bit. They dovetail together beautifully - and the Abrahamson book includes a bit more breadth on the possible topologies. One of my favorite chapters in THIS book is the excellent exposition on biploar and FET drive circuits. Its made very clear - this man is a BORN teacher...

This book even tells you how to select fuses, filter capacitors (the point being that the values you chose last month might well be right, but after this text you will know with far greater confidence, as it were)

I must say that the one thing that both books are a little light on is the subject of CUK convertors, which I will have to get wisdom on from elsewhere I guess. The other thing that NEITHER books mention, which in fact is hard to find, is the design of planar transformers. This is a complex area involving quite a lot of maths, so I've been told. You can find some material in IEEE transactions on power electronics, and similar journals, but you may have to hunt a bit. Philips / Ferroxcube are good for this, too.

The Abrahamson book covers current fed convertors. This includes a section on flyback current fed convertors - in which I think he forgot to elaborate on the case where the input transformer returns to the input, rather than the output, which appears to reduce input ripple and improves the power factor. But this case is handled quite well in the references given at the end of the chapter, so no matter. Its a very exciting chapter - but the Billings book doesn't cover them at all, which is a pity, since there's quite a lot of utility for these very stable topologies, involving quite light voltage and current strain on the switching transistors.

I wish the books could go on even further, but all I can be is grateful...

I must say also that the safety aspect of design is covered well in both books, both European and American.