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Question | Answer |
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Encounter form | a form that contains most common procedures and diagnosis including patient name, address, and billing information. |
Guarantor | person responsible for paying the bill |
Medical Practice Management Software | software used to schedule patients, sumit electronic claims to the insurance company and perform simlified accounting procedure |
Medisoft | a medical practice management software system for use in medical office |
Provider | a general term referring to physician, physician assistant, and nurse practitioner |
Sidebar | a feature in medisoft that allows you to access many features quickly |
Superbill | another name for encounter form |
Cases | a group of transactins for a particular patient's condition |
Health Insurance | provide protection for patients againist the financial consequences of illness, accident, injuries, and disablities |
Managed Care | prepaid health plans that provide healthcare services at a low cost |
Third Party Payers | someone other than the patient who is responsible for paying the medical bill.Typically the insurance company |
Appointment Books | books that list all providers in the practice and their scheduled appointments |
Cluster SCheduling | scheduling groups similar procedures together at the same time of the week |
Consultatiom Appointments | appointmentsin which the patient seeks the advice of another provider |
Double Booking | scheduling two appointments at the same time |
Emergency Appointments | appointments that require a quick response, these can be life threatening |
Individual Scheduling | each patient is given a predetermined time slot |
Modified Wave Scheduling | patients are schduled every 15 mins. |
New Patient Appointment | a new patients first arrival at the medical office |
Physical Appointments | examinations for checking growth |
Preoperative Appointments | scheduled appointments for patients having surgery |
Resource | a provider, room, nurse, technician, or machine that can be created in medisoft hours |
Routine Appointments | follow up visits and acute diagnostic visits |
Scheduling Matrix | a pattern of working and non working hours, for thr medical office |