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MED 115
Revenue Cycle Steps
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Step 1 | Preregister patients. |
| Step 2 | Establish financial responsibility. |
| Step 3 | Check in patients. |
| Step 4 | Review coding compliance. |
| Step 5 | Review billing compliance |
| Step 6 | Check out patients |
| Step 7 | Prepare and transmit claims |
| Step 8 | Monitor payer adjudication |
| Step 9 | Generate patient statements |
| Step 10 | Follow up payments and collections |
| Preregister patients. | Schedule and update Appointments, Collect Preregistration demographic and insurance information. Reason for visit |
| Establish financial responsibility. | What service are/aren't covered, Medical conditions establish medical necessity for these services, billing rules of plan, patient responsible for paying |
| Check in patients. | New patient to complete demographic and medical information and have returning patient review and confirm the information |
| Review coding compliance. | To bill for the visit the medical diagnoses and procedures must be assigned medical codes. |
| Review billing compliance | Each charge, or fee, for a visit is related to a specific procedure code |
| Check out patients | previous balances, Copayments or coinsurance, Noncovered Services, Charges of nonparticipating providers, Charges for self-pay patients, Deductibles |
| Prepare and transmit claims | Prepare claims for their patients and send them to the paye electronically |
| PMP include | Diagnosis, Procedures, and charges to payer |
| Monitor payer adjudication | Payer review claims using adjudication process, What the payer decides to pay amount of payment depends on the practice's contract with the payer |
| Adjudication | Process followed by health plans to examine claims and determine benefits |
| Generate patient statements | Appling payers payments to the appropriate patients accounts |
| Follow up payments and collections | Analyze for overdue bills (Collections Process) |
| Compliance | Satisfy official requirements |
| HIT Skills | (MIS) need to know how to use computers to handle bills and process claims, Keep Patient records, Perform Data Entry, and use the internet |
| Honesty and Integrity | (MIS) Must maintain patient confidentiality |
| Ability to Work as a team Member | (MIS) must work well with physicians and other staff in the healthcare practice |