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Health Insurance

Subject : industries
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1. The transmission of claims data (electronical or manually) to payers or clearinghouses for processing.






2. 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.






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






8. Medical report substantiating a medical condition






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






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






11. The provider receives reimbursement directly from the payer.






12. Theperson eligible to receive healthcare benefits.






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






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






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






16. Computer to computer data exchange between payer and provider






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






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






19. 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;






20. The insurance claim form used to report professional services






21. 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;






22. Form used to report institutional - facility services.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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






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






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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






48. Person responsible for paying healthcare fees






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






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