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Health Insurance

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






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






3. The insurance claim form used to report professional services






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






13. 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;






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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






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






28. Form used to report institutional - facility services.






29. 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.






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






35. Medical report substantiating a medical condition






36. 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






37. 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






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






39. 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






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






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






42. 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






43. A correctly completed standardized claim






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






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






46. 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.






47. Organization that accredits clearinghouses






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






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






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