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HIT218 CH18

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What did Medicare do in the mid 1960's?   It encouraged hospitals to provide services without regard to cost because most costs were reimbursed under the medicare reimbursement program.  
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HCFA   Health Care Finance Administration  
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CMS   Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services  
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prospective payment system (PPS)   attempted to balance the payments made for the same services rendered by different providers and pay the providers on the basis of the diagnosis at a fixed rate  
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DRG's   diagnosis related groups  
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third party payer   the insurance company - pays for services provided by health care organizations or practitioners to the "insured"  
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RBRVS   resource based relative value scale  
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HMO   health maintenance organizations  
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PPO   preferred provider organizations  
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GAAP   generally accepted accounting principles  
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HCPCS   health care procedure coding system  
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participating proveder   a provider that has come to terms with a payer an dis under an approved contractual agreement  
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NCQA   national committee for quality assurance  
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CLIA   clinical laboratory improvement amendment  
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CLIA mandates what?   the completeion of a certification process before obtaining billing privileges  
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IRS   internal revenue service  
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HIPAA   health insurance portability and accountability act  
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NPI   national provider identifier  
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master charge list, charge master, charge description master (CDM) or fee schedule   this list reflects the charge for each item that may be used in the treatment of a patient and the charge for most services  
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the revenue cycle is composed of   an interwoven system with multiple participants and systems  
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PHI   personal health information  
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claim edits include   correct patient or subscriber info, CCI edits, LMRP edits...  
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EDI   electronic data interchange  
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ANSI   American National Standards Institute  
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COB   coordination of benefit  
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RA   remittance advice  
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EOB   explanation of benefits  
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ERA   electronic remittance advice  
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payments are deposited by?   hardcopy check or EFT  
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EFT   electronic funds transfer  
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DRG's are an example of?   a per case or fixed payment system  
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when a patient balance is referred to collection and written off as a bad debt what is it's status?   it is no longer an active accounts receivable.  
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A/R days   average time to receive payment  
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A/R aging   distribution of accounts receivable by aging days  
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collection rate   effectiveness of collecting  
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payer mix   distribution of revenue by payers  
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denial rate   number or dollars of denied clains  
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bad debt rate   write-offs due to bad debt  
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charity rate   write-offs due to charity  
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capitation   used in HMO's  
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case mis index for the period =   total value of service/total number of cases  
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total value of service =   case mix value x number of cases in the period  
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PCAOB   public company accounting oversight board  
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CMS   centers for medicare and medicaid services  
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medicare fraud is defined as   making false statement or representation sof material facts to obtain a benefit or payment for which no entitlement would otherwise exist. Fraud is committed knowingly  
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medicare abuse is defined as   using practices that are insonsistent with accepted medical practice and directly or indirectly result in unnecessary costs to the medicare program. it is not required that the acts were committed knowingly  
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AHIMA   American health information management association  
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HIM professionals responsibility   refuse to participate in or conceal unethical practices or procedures  
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AICPA   American institute of certified public accountants  
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ONCHIT   office of the national coordinator for health information technology  
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managerial accounting   provides economic informatiojn and an dinternal framework to enable health care leaders to make effective decisions concerning the activities and overall performance within an organization  
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mission   a statement of the organizations purpose in broad terms  
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goal   a statement of what the organization wants to do  
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objectives   are more specific statments that define the expectations of outcomes given the goal direction  
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action steps   define the dates when certain activities are to be completed, how much labor or funding will be required, how resources will be used, and the expected outcomes or results  
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budgets   detailed numerical documents that translate the goals, objectives and actions steps into forecasts of volume and monetary resources needed  
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statistics budget   the first of several budgets developed from the planning process  
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operating budgets   predict the labor, supply and other expenses required to support the work volume predicted  
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fixed expenses   those that are not related to the volume of business  
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variable expenses   those that fluctuate as a result of changes in volume  
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master budget   consolidation of all departments operating budgets, catergories of expenses and revenues  
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rolling budget method   requires management to prepare a budget for a period of time and add to the end of tha period another month when a month is consumed  
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flexible budget   predicated on volume, all supplies labor and other variable expenses are bugdgeted in proportion to the anticipated volume  
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zero based budget   management must complete a program assessment and define consequences if specific programs are terminated or reduced  
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controlling   activities that management typically pursues when what was planned does not occur financially  
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variance report   reflects the budget that was prepared and approved and shows that actual results on at least a monthly basis  
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business plan   a formal written document that evolves from the input of others, listing objectives that support the organizational goals  
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productive time   the time a worker is present and working  
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the four m's   manpower machinery materials money  
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cost allocation system   determines the approximate costs to provide services  
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step down method   a common method that is supported by Medicare in its cost reporting req's, the indirect department that receives the least amount of service from other indirect departments and provides the most service to other departments has its costs allocated first  
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double distribution method   assumes that the allocation of costs cannot be linear and the at some indirect departments need to be allocated to less commonly dispersed departments before the costs of these departments are fully allocated  
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simultaneous equations method ( aka algebraic or multiple apportionment method)   permits multiple allocation to occur through sophisticated mathematical software and teh use of simultaneous mathematical equations  
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financial accounting   recording and reporting the financial transactions of the organization for both internal management and users outside of the organization  
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FASB   financial standards accounting board  
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GASB   government accounting standards board  
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entity   the business unit or activity for which accountingrecords are maintained  
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going concern   assumes that the owners of a business entity will continue operating indefinitely to fulfill the business plans of the organization  
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stable monetary unit   in the US it is the US dollar  
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matching concept   recognizes that any associated expenses such as labor, supplies, and travel would be recorded in the same accounting period and matched with the revenue for that accounting period  
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objectivity   states that historical cost is a more objective measure than current value  
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disclosure   an entity's financial statements provide a mechanism to communicate the economic activities of an organization  
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financial accountant, managerial accountant, and managerial finance officer   all cover different aspects of financial management  
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cash basis accounting   each transaction is recorded when cash is exchanged as with one's personal finances  
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accrual basis accounting   uses the matching concept, enabling revenues to be matched with the actual expenses incurred to produce the revenue  
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profit   the amount of money actually received from the payer less the actual cost to do the service  
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AHA   American hospital association  
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balance sheet displays   the organization's assets, liabilities, and fund balance or equity at a fixed point in time  
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assets - liabilities =   fund balance (equity)  
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statement of revenues and expenses   revenue - expense = net income  
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financial analysis or ratio analysis   the management process of formulation judgements and decisions from the relation between the numbers represented on two reports: the balance sheet and the statment of revenues and expenses  
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current ratio   current assets with current liabilities  
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turnover ratio   divides patient accounts receivable by the average daily patient revenues  
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net days of revenue in patient accounts receivable =   net patient accounts receivalbe / average daily net patient service revenue  
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average net daily patient service revenue =   net patient service revenue for the period / days in the period  
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performance ratio   evaluates that use of resources to achieve a goal  
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operating margin ratio   displays the relation between the net revenues received and the expenses required to supply the revenues  
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net operating revenue   the amount of revenue expected to be received or total charges less the deductions expected by third party payers resulting in revenues net of deductions or net operating revenue  
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long term debt / total assets ratio   compares the amount of long term debt the organization has with the amount of assets it has to pay those debts  
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CFO   chief financial officer  
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capital expenditure committee   evaluates all capital requests so that cash resources are sued to purchase the high cost items that will yield the most benefit to the organization  
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opportunity costs   benefits that would be received from the next best alternative use of the investment funds  
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time value of money   a person who invests money should be entitled to a return or interest  
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depreciation   calculated by dividing the capital cost by the years of life  
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payback method   the payback period determines the number of years it will take for the cash inflows from each project to pay back the initial investment (cash outflow)  
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