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Health Insurance

Subject : industries
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A routing slip - charge slip - encounter form - or suberbill from which the insurance claim was generated.






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






7. Theperson eligible to receive healthcare benefits.






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






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






10. Organization that accredits clearinghouses






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






12. Computer to computer data exchange between payer and provider






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






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






15. 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






16. The insurance claim form used to report professional services






17. 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






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






19. Form used to report institutional - facility services.






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






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






22. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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;






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. Person responsible for paying healthcare fees






37. 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.






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






39. 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;






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






41. 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.






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






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






44. Contract out






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






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






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






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






49. 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.






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