Practice Management Books

I purchased this book in preparation for the AAPC's CPC certification exam. It is easy to use and a wonderful learning tool. There is a timed clock on the CDrom portion to help with building your coding speed (this is essential to getting finished with the exam in the alloted time). The tutorials give rationales for wrong answers. It was an excellent study guide.

I just took the exam about a month ago and passed with flying colors thanks to this book. The questions aren't a cakewalk and goes in depth with rationales on why those answers are and are not the right ones, unlike others that simply write in the correct letter on the back for the right answers. This one explains why that certain answer was incorrect so as not to leave you looking up in the ceiling for answers.

I've red the new one(2005) and quite frankly, they aren't very different. They changed a few questions and added a few things in the review section, then that's about it. You're not missing a big step if you get this instead of the 2005. They both include the CDROM.

By the way, the CDROM is nothing short of amazing. It has 150 Pre and Post Exam Questions(the questions are the same, only in different order) that you answer using the computer. So basically, this book has 150 questions in the CDROM then another 150 on the book making it 300 PRACTICE QUESTIONS!! That doesnt include the short 1-10 quizzes on each section of the review chapters(i.e. each body system, reimbursement, etc.)

Really great book for the bargain price. The AMA sells a review book about $10 more expensive with about 75 questions and no rationales on the right and wrong answers.

As someone who works in the field of pain psychology, I can tell you that Dr. Borkum's book, Chronic Headaches, is a remarkable accomplishment. He has managed to put into one volume very nearly everything there is to know about headache--from the various types of headache and their associated symptomatologies to the full spectrum of medical and psychological approaches to managing headache pain. Even more astonishing is his thoughtful and comprehensive review of the outcome literature in behavioral medicine treatment research. This is a work that will prove essential to medical and psychological professionals who treat patients with chronic headaches, as well as to motivated patients suffering from chronic headaches who wish to acquaint themselves with the full range of treatment options.

This book is written by a brilliant psychologist and scholar of headache literature, as well as pain literature in general, whose ability to synthesize research and to translate this knowledge into useful information is first rate. His integration and application of biopsychosocial information to headache treatment is state of the art, and obviously influenced by his experience and sensitivity to the needs of both practitioners and patients.

Madeleine Homan and Linda Miller have given us their best. This book is as critical to great organizational coaching as is Peter Block's Flawless Consulting to consulting. The 'Making It Real' sections woven thoughout provide thought-provoking questions which, if utilized, would absolutely impact the success factor. The application tools partnered with coaching theory = a definitive resource. I especially appreciated the 'measuring success' chapter, such a critical deliverable in the coaching profession. This excellent resource should be required for all organizational coaching curricula. Thank you for sharing your rich knowledge and resources!

I am in awe. I have read most coaching books as the topic ressonates with who I want to be: someone who unleashes the greatness in others. The author's deep wisdom about all aspects of coaching permeates Coaching in Organizations and will help individual coaches as well as organizational champions of coaching achieve the results and impact they are looking for. The stories woven throughout make this book readable and relevant. The plethora of inviting strategies and Best Coaching Practices invited me to put on my coaching hat and go unleash the potential and power of everyone in my organization. If you ever wanted to buy a book that has it all..truly, this is the one for you. What a gift.

This is a book you will go to again and again for all things coniferous.

I 'm a partner in specialized conifer nursery, always we are asking for the second volume for this extraordinary book. May be one of the best conifers manual.

David Schwerin has brought fresh, new insights into a business model primarily concerned with power and greed to one based on caring and ethics. His years of experience and his wisdom and understanding propose a timely new model which will provide healing to each individual touched by business procedures. His personal illustrations and documentations have added power to his ideas. The inspiration and dedication to these new principles is peppered with humorous subtitles and phrases. While proposing an ideal model, the book also gives practical illustrations and specific guidelines to effect change. It takes us from self-defeating practices to a winning archetype. A great inspiration!

In 'Conscious Capitalism' David Schwerin goes beyond what we normally consider business ethics. He gives his readers a deep spiritual foundation for values in business, something that we've rarely seen in the twentieth century but that will surely be crucial for the twenty-first century.

Author David Schwerin is that rare combination of successful businessman and esoteric scholar. And this combination makes for a fascinating book, both instructive and insightful, and with compelling examples and stories.

If any reader wants to know what spiritual and ethical business will look like in the future, this is the book to read. We can't recommend it highly enough!

This is an awesome book that describes everything new physicians need to know about managed care. A must read for any health care provider.

A great overview of the managed care world as it affects young physicians. Tells you what you're going into and how to best position yourself for success (and happiness) within it. It's about time someone wrote this book.

Cornerstones of Strong Schools: Practices for Purposeful Leadership lives up to its title with its recommendations and experiences-tested practices for school principals, as well as specific leadership strategies ideal for fostering an optimum learning environment. Chapters discuss how to affirm success and acknowledge failure (including teacher underperformance), the value of being a visible principal, building positive relationships with teachers and handling the teacher evaluation process, the importance of requiring behavior adjustments before belief adjustments when instituting a new change, and much more. "Involving parents in their child's learning is another critical way we affirm the performance of our students. One of the most successful ways we have accomplished this is through our student-led conferences. In these conferences students, rather than teachers, take the lead in showing and telling their parents what they have learned by a given point in the school year... The number one benefit we have discovered from student-led conferences is the extent to which students become accountable for their own education." Highly recommended especially for public and private school leaders.

Jeffrey Zoul and Laura Link have crafted a very readable and practical primer for school leadership that is long overdue. The business community is replete with multitudinous volumes describing sound leadership practices. By contrast, the education profession has lagged in telling its own story of the characteristics of the successful leader for that profession.

Cornerstones of Strong Schools identifies nine essential responsibilties necessary for the successful school leader. Examples and strategies for each is detailed in the respective chapter describing the particular quality of leadership. The authors weave personal experience with valued research to provide the reader with information that will enhance and augment leadership styles.

Quality schools and their attendant results begin at the top. Zoul and Link have given the school leader a valuable tool with which to achieve such success!

Sciulli uncovers basic legal principles in the ongoing effort to monitor corporate governance. In its sophistication, this book reminded me of Habermas' Between Fact and Norms and Bourdieu's Pascallian Meditations, but Sciulli's book is more accessible. It revolves around concrete cases that nonspecialists can follow. In fact, I wonder whether his approach to law and corporations begins to establish his social theory as a rival to Habermas and Bourdieu more generally. Plus, it's about time some social theorist engaged the law and economics crowd on their own turf.

Finally, a positive accounting of corporate law "tradition" as aggressive as the criticisms by Easterbrook and Fischel, Romano and Roe. This is probably the best book on corporate law for interested outsiders, and it certainly puts corporate law in broader social context than "progressive" or stakeholder-centered approaches. By showing specifically when, where and how corporate law bears on society, the author pinpoints why law and economics is partial at best. More than even Eisenberg or Brudney, he demonstrates in clear, positive terms why certain court-enforced fiduciary duties remain important whereas others can safely be replaced with contracts or laissez-faire. And the book proceeds sans legalese. One heads up, however: though ideal for non-lawyers (and essential for academics), this book is hardly a casual, shore-side read. (The same goes for the author's earlier book on corporations. His chapter there on equity law is one of the best brief discussions I have seen of this important legal tradition).

The collaboration work of Kenneth R. Gray (eminent Scholar Chair Professor of International Management, School of Business and Industry, Florida A&M University-Tallahassee), Larry A. Frieder (Eminent Scholar Chair Professor of Financial Services, School of Business and Industry, Florida A&M University-Tallahassee), and George W. Clark, Jr. (Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Ethics, School of Business & Industry, Florida A&M University), Corporate Scandals: The Many Faces Of Greed focuses on the nature of corporate scandals, offering the reader a brief history of business scandals, addressing issues of corporate malfeasance including fraud, regulatory laxity, and theft; governmental attempts to address corporate crime, the pervasive extent of executive impropriety and vice, recommendations for dealing with corporate illegalities in the future, and reflections on the nature and impact of corporate scandals on the business community and the general American public. Corporate Scandals should be on the reading list of corporate CEO and mandatory reading for every student in a "Business Ethics" class in every college and university Business School in the country.

I am a business school graduate and have owned my own business for 12 years. I am also a former investor in mutual funds and equities. In the year 2000, my wife and I lost confidence in those investments in part due to the trickle of corporate scandals that had already begun to surface. Soon after, the trickle became a flood and I think we have still only seen the tip of the proverbial iceberg. In Corporate Scandals: The Many Faces of Greed, the authors explore the root causes of this breakdown in ethics and trust and put our current crisis in perspective by documenting and analyzing similar scandals in history. The book reads easily and yet is well researched, footnoted & indexed, making it an excellent textbook for university ethics courses. I feel that if every business school in America would incorporate this work (or a similar one) into their required ethics courses, it could help to restore integrity in American business persons and confidence in American business.

I found this book innovative and helpful. It provides informative examples best practices, case studies and the latest strategies & techniques that companies can use to control costs and maximize profitability. In a tough fiscal year, I will be reading this book over and over again to find more new ways to save money.

In a highly competitive operating environment in which we live, it is often difficult for a company to raise prices, unless it can differentiate its products and services in such a way that customers are prepared to pay a premium price. Even then it is necessary to produce the best value at optimal costs.

Most companies are price takers and the only area that they have control may be their costs. This is where this book is very handy and it provides managers with effective techniques and tools that they can employ to control and manage costs. The book shows that all departments can adopt best practices to ensure that their costs structures are optimal. Other areas to target for cost control include outsourcing, rightsizing organisations, the use of consultants and elsewhere.

This is an excellent book that is essential reading for all managers who need to learn the techniques, strategies and best practices in reducing costs for organisations. The author reinforces their well presented arguments, proposals and solutions with case studies and real examples that should assist managers in implementing the tips that they would have learnt.