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Health Insurance

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1. Shows the status (by date) of outstanding claims from each payer - as well as payments due from patients






2. Established by health insurance companies for a health insurance plan; usually has limits of $1000 or $2000; when the patient has reached the limit of an out-of-pocket payment (deductable) for the year - appropriate patient reimbursement to the provi






3. A claim that is usually more than 120 days past due; some practices establish time frames that are less than 120 days.






4. Are organized by year; generated for providers who do not accept assignment; includes all unassigned claims for which the provider is not obligated to perform any follow-up work.






5. The amount owed to a business for services or goods provided






6. A computerized permanent record of all financial transactions between the patient and the practice;also called patient account record.






7. Any medical condition that was diagnosed and or treated within a specified period of time immediately preceding the enrollee's effective date of coverage.






8. Abstract of all recent claims filed on each patient.






9. Amount for which the patient is financially responsible before an insurance company provides coverage.






10. Advances through various aging periods( 30 -60 -90 -120) with practices typically focusing internal recovery efforts on older delinquent accounts.






11. Also called a day sheet - a chronological summary of all transactions posted to individual patient ledgers/accounts on a specific day.






12. Any procedure or service reported on a claim that is not included on the payers master benefit list - resulting in denial of the claim; also called noncovered procedure or uncoverd benefit.






13. Clearinghouses that involves value-added vedors - such as banks - in the processing of claims; using a VAN is more efficient and less expensive for providers than managing their own systems to send and receive transactions directly from nummerous ent






14. Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race - color - religion - national origin - sex - martial status - age - reciept of public assistance - or good faith exercise of any rights under the Cunsumer Credit protection ACT.






15. The maximum amount a payer will reimburse for each procedure or service - according to the patient's policy.






16. Associated with how an insurance plan is billed-the insurance plan responsible for paying healthcare insurance claims first is considered primary.






17. The transmission of claims data (electronical or manually) to payers or clearinghouses for processing.






18. Legal action to recover a debt; usually a last resort for a medical practice.






19. Submitted to the payer - but processing is not complete






20. Series of fixed length records submitted to payers to bill for health care services.






21. A check made out to the patient and the provider.






22. The term hospitals use to describe the encounter form.






23. Contracts with a helath insurance plan and accepts whatever the plan pays for procedures or services performed.






24. Person responsible for paying healthcare fees






25. Is a public or private entity that processes of facilitates the processing of nonstandard data elements into standard data elements.






26. Form used to report institutional - facility services.






27. Establishes the rights. liabilites - and rsponsibilities of participants in electronic funds transfer systems.






28. Sorting claims upon submission to collect and verify information about a patient and provider.






29. Submitting multiple CPT codes when one code could of been submitted.






30. Does not contract with the insurance plan; patient who elects to recieve care from nonPARS will incur higher out-of-pocket expenses.






31. Term used for the encounter form in the physicians's office.






32. Specifies what a collection source may or may not do when pursuing payment on past due accounts.






33. Financial record source document used by providers and other personnel to record treated diagnoses and services rendered to the patient during the current encounter.






34. When the provider agrees to accept what the insurance company allows or aproves as payment in full for the claim






35. The provider receives reimbursement directly from the payer.






36. Contract out






37. Services that are provided to a patient without proper authorization or that are not covered by a current authorization.






38. Provision in group health insurance policies that prevents multiple insurers from paying benefits covered by other policies: also specifies that coverage will be provided in a specified sequence when more than one policy covers the claim.






39. Series of fixed length records submitted to payers to bill for health care services.






40. The landmark legislation because it launched truth in lending disclosures that reguired creditors to communicate the cost of borrrowing money in a common language so that consumers could figure out the charges - compare cost - and shop for the best c






41. Claims for which all processing - including appeals - has been completed.






42. System by which payers deposit funds to the providers account electronically.






43. Remittance advice that is submitted to the provider electronically and contains the same information as a paper-based remittance advice; providers receive ERA more quickly.






44. Assigning lower-level codes then documented in the record.






45. Assists providers in the collection of appropriate reimbursement for services rendered; includes functions such as insurance verfication/eligibility and preauthorization of services






46. Is a past due account; one that has not been paid within a certain time frame.






47. Computer to computer data exchange between payer and provider






48. Amended the Truth in Lending Act - requiring credit and charge card issuers to provide certain disclosures in direct mail - telephone - and any other application and solicitations for open-end credit and charge accounts and under other circumstances;






49. Remittance advice submitted by Medicare to providers that includes payment information about a claim.






50. A computerized permanent record of all financial transactions between the patient and the pratice - also called patient ledger.