Question | Answer |
Encounter Form | A form that contains the medical offices most common procedures and dianosis codes including the patient name, address and and billing information. |
Guarantor | the person indenifted as responsble for payment of the bill |
Medical Pratice Management software | software used to schedule patients, submit electronic claims to the insurance company and preform simplied accounting procedures. |
Medisoft | a medical pratice management software system fpr use in medical offices |
Provider | a general term referring to phycians, phyican asst. and nurse practitioners |
Sidebar | a feature in medisoft the allows to acess many features quickly. |
Superbill | aka Encounter form |
Cases | a group of tranactions of a picticular patients contidtion. |
Heatlth Insurance | Providers protection for Patients against the finanial consequense of illiness, accidets, injuries and disabillties |
Managed Care | Prepaid health plans that provide health care services at a low cost |
Third party payer | someone other than the patient who is responsible for paying the medical bills, typiclly the insurance company |
Appointment book | a book that lists all providers in the practice and their scheduled appointments |
Cluster Scheduling | scheduling that groups simuilar procedures together at the same time of the week |
Consultation Appointment | appointment in which the patient seeks the advice of another provider |
Double booking | scheduleing two appointments at the same time, |
Emergency Appointment | appointments that require quick response that could be life threating |
Individual scheduling | each patient is given a predetermined time slot |
Modified Wave Schedling | patient are schedled every 15 mins. |
New Patient Appointments | A new patients arrival at the medical office. |
Physical Appointments | examanation for checking growth |
Preopertive Appointment | scheduled appoitments for patients having surgery |
Resourses | a source of supply of support |
Routine Appointments | follow up visits and acute dianostic visits |
Scheduling Matrix | a pattern of working and nonworking hours for the medical office. |