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Health Insurance

Subject : industries
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1. Claims for which all processing - including appeals - has been completed.






2. 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;






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






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






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






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






7. Person responsible for paying healthcare fees






8. Organization that accredits clearinghouses






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






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






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






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






13. 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






14. 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;






15. Form used to report institutional - facility services.






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






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






18. A correctly completed standardized claim






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






20. 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






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






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






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






24. Theperson eligible to receive healthcare benefits.






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






30. Health plans - healthcare clearinghouses - government health plans - and any health providers that choose to submit or receive transactions electronically.






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Computer to computer data exchange between payer and provider






46. 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






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






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






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






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