Gain realistic experience in a physician's office without leaving the classroom! Virtual Medical Office combines your Fordney: Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office, 12th Edition textbook, a study guide, and online software to help you develop the critical thinking and decision-making skills you'll need on the job. With 15 virtual patient encounters, Virtual Medical Office begins each study guide lesson with a reading assignment from the text, and then provides exercises offering practice in coding procedures and diagnoses, filing insurance claims, troubleshooting rejected claims, catching common coding errors, evaluating the office's compliance with HIPAA, keeping the policy manual up to date, and much more. Virtual Medical Office provides a safe environment in which you can practice what you are learning in the text!