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Medical Billing/Code
Question | Answer |
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How many steps are in the Revenue Cycle? | - 10 |
What are the first 3 main steps in the Revenue Cycle? | - Preregister Patients, Establish financial responsibility, Check in patients. |
- AP | - Accounts Payable |
- AR | - Accounts Receivable |
- CDHP | - Consumer Driven Health Plan |
- EHR | - Electronic Health Record |
- HIT | - Health Information Technology |
- HMO | - Health Maintenance Organization |
- MCO | - Managed Care Organization |
- PMPM | - Per Member Per Month |
- PMP | - Practice Management Program |
- PPO | - Preferred Provider Organization |
- PCP | - Primary care Physician |
What are the 3 main knowledge requirements MA's should know? | - Knowledge medical insurance, reimbursement options, and EHR systems |
Who is reliable on handling the CASH FLOW through the financial success | - The revenue Cycle |
_____ _____ specialist help ensure financial success. | - Medical Insurance Specialist |
_____ _____ is a written policy stating the terms of an agreement between ________ (a individual) and a ______ ______ (an insurance company). | 1. Medical Insurance 2. Policyholder 3. Health Plan |
Health plans provide _________ (payments for medical services). | - Benefits |
Health plans are often referred to as _________. | - payers |
- Describe this term... (Third-Party Payer) | 1. is a government agency or private organization insuring or paying for healthcare on behalf of beneficiaries |
Medical coder does four thing? What are they? | Billing, Coding, Reimbursement, and Data Inserts |
What is CPT? | Current Procedure Terminology |
What is ICD-10-PCS? | This type of coding is for Inpatient coding |
CDT? | Current Dental Terminology |
AAPC? | American Academy of Professional Coders |
Where can Medical Coders work? | Provider offices, Hospitals, Private companies, Home, Insurance companies, vendors, Law Specters, etc |
Professional Coding? | is coding for provider specialists - Provider based services. |
Inpatient Coding? | like coding for inpatient coding such as hospitals |
Where does the icd-10-cms start? | |
What is office of inspector general? | has the task of detecting healthcare fraud and abuse for enforcing all laws relating to them |
What is Fraud? | intentional deceptive act to obtain a benefit: Financial gain. |
What is abuse? | Action that improperly uses another persons resources |
Encryption? | A method of scrambling transmitted data so they cannot be deciphered without the use of a confidential process or key. |
PHI cannot be released without? | authorization for treatment, payment and healthcare operations. |