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Health Insurance

Subject : industries
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1. Organization that accredits clearinghouses






2. The percentage the patient pays for covered services after the deductible has been met and the copayment has been paid.






3. Determines coverage by primary and secondary policies when each parent subscribes to a different health insurance plan.






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






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






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






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






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






9. A routing slip - charge slip - encounter form - or suberbill from which the insurance claim was generated.






10. The insurance claim form used to report professional services






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Person responsible for paying healthcare fees






19. 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;






20. Also called manual daily accounts receivable journal; cronological summary of all transactions posted to individual patient legers/accounts on a specific day.






21. Contract out






22. Computer to computer data exchange between payer and provider






23. 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.






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






25. 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.






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






27. Accounts receivable that cannot be collected by the provider or a collect agency.






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






29. 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






30. Theperson eligible to receive healthcare benefits.






31. 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






32. Protects information collected by consumers reporting agencies such as credit bureaus - medical information companies and tenant screening services; organizations that provide information to consumer reporting agencies also have specific legal obliga






33. Federal law passed in 1975 that helps consumers resolve billing issues with card issuers; protects important credit rights - including rights to dispute billing errors - unauthorized use of account - and charges for unsatisfactory goods and services;






34. Medical report substantiating a medical condition






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






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






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






38. Sending data in a standardized machine readable format to an insurance company via disk - telephone or cable.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Uses a variable-length file format to process transactions for institutional - professional - dental - and drug claims.






49. 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






50. Comparing a claim to payer edits and the patient's health plan benefits to verify that the required information is available to process the claim; the claim is not a duplicated; payer rules and procedures have been followed; and procedures performed