Following Healthcare Payment Systems: An Introduction, this second volume in a series by medical payment expert Duane Abbey provides an overview and discussion of various fee schedule payment systems used by healthcare providers and third party payers. Designed for hands-on use and illustrated with scenarios that cover a host of possibilities, emphasis is placed on basic elements of fee schedule payment systems used to collect for physician, nursing, hospice and other inpatient or home health services. Abbey gives special attention to the highly challenging Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.