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Health Insurance

Subject : industries
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1. Series of fixed length records submitted to payers to bill for health care services.






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






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






4. 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






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






6. The insurance claim form used to report professional services






7. 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.






8. 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;






9. 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.






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. One that has not been paid within a certain time frame; also called delinquent account






15. Organization that accredits clearinghouses






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






17. Form used to report institutional - facility services.






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






19. Computer to computer data exchange between payer and provider






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






33. 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






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






35. 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;






36. 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.






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






38. Person responsible for paying healthcare fees






39. A correctly completed standardized claim






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Contract out