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Health Insurance Chapter 9

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What is a state licensed, Medicare certified supplier of surgical healthcare services that must accept assignment on claims?   ambulatory surgical center (ASC)  
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In IPPS, this is an indicator to differentiate between conditions present upon admission and those that develop during the hospital stay   present on admission (POA)  
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Medicare reimburses laboratory services based on what?   submitted charge, national limitation amount, or local fee schedule amount, whichever is lowest  
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How does Medicare reimburse DMEPOS?   80% of the actual charge amount or the fee schedule amount, whichever is lowest  
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In the Home Health PPS, patient assessments are completed using what?   outcomes and assessments information set (oasis)  
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In the IPPS what rule requires outpaient preadmission services provided by a hospital up to 3 days prior to the patient's admission to be covered by IPPS payment:   IPPS 72-hour rule, or IPPS 3-day window rule  
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Medicare reimbursement for physician's services is based on Relative Value Units assigned to each service/procedure consisting of what?   physician work expense, practice expense, & malpractice expense  
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This a condition that arises during the hospitalization that can change the patient's outcome or may require additional treatment   complication  
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This is a pre-existing condition treated during the hospitalization, but may not be what required the hospitalization   co-morbidity  
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Medicare non-par physicians are held to a limiting charge amount. This is what percentage of the non-par medicare physician's fee schedule amount?   115%  
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NPPS can bill services provided to Medicare beneficiaries as what? It means that their services are billed underr a supervising physician   incident to  
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Home Health Services are reimbursed based on each______episode of care   60-day  
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DRG's are organized into what?   major diagnostic categories  
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IPPS adjustment available for hospitals that treat a high-percentage of low-income patients   disproportionate share hospital  
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IPPS adjustment for hospitals that treat unusually costly cases   outliers  
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IPPS adjustment for approved teaching hospitals   indirect medical education  
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What classification system is used for the Inpatient PPS?   MS-DRG  
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What does MS-DRG's stand for?   medical severity diagnosis-related groups  
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What classification system is used for the Physician Fee Schedule payment system?   Resource Based Relative ValueSystem (RBRVS)  
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What classification system is used for the Outpatient PPS?   Ambulatory Payment Classifications (APC's)  
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What classification system is used for the Skilled Nursing PPS?   Resource Utilization Groups (RUGs)  
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What classification system is used for the Home Health PPS?   Home Health Resource Groups (HHRGs)  
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What is a measure of the types of patients treated, and reflects a patient utilization of varying levels of healthcare resources for a facility?   case mix  
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This determines the appropriate group (e.g. MS, DRG, HHRG and so on) to classify a patient after data about the patient is input   grouper software  
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Predetermined reimbursement methodology:   payment system  
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Extent of physiological decompensation or organ system loss of function:   severity of illness  
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Hospitals use this to describe their patient encounter form:   chargemaster  
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Date elements collected by long-term care facilities:   minimum data set (MDS)  
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What do institutional and other selected providers submit their claim data on to payers for reimbursement of patient services?   UB-04  
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What does the acronym NPP stand for?   nonphysician practitioner  
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Name three nonphysician practitioners:   nurse practitioner (NP), clinical nurse specialist (CNS), physician assistant (PA)  
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Which PPS provides a lump-sum payment that depends on the patient's principal diagnosis, comorbidities, complications, and principal and secondary procedures?   IPPS  
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Which is the abbreviation for the numeric codes reported on the CMS-1500 claim that indicate where services were provided to beneficiaries?   POS (place of service)  
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Resource utilization groups (RUGs) is a ____ reimbursement methodology used by skilled nursing facilities   cost-based  
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Which legislated implementation of the long-term (acute) care hospital inpatient prospective payment system?   BBRA  
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The resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) system is more commonly called the:   medicare physician fee schedule  
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The process by which health care facilities and payers determine anticipated care needs by reviewing tyupes and/or categories of patients treated by a facility is called_____ analysis   case mix  
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Diagnosis-related groups are organized into mutually exclusive categories called______, which are loosely based on body systems   major diagnostic categories  
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Physician work, practice expense, and malpractice expense are components in computing _______ for the resource-based relative value scale system   relative value units  
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Four-digit______ codes are preprinted on a facility's chargemaster to indicate the location or type of service provided to an institutional patient   revenue  
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Which is responsible for developing data elements reported on the UB-40?   NUBC (national uniform billing committee)  
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Which reimbursement system established rates in advance of services and is based on reported charges from which a per diem rate is determined?   prospective cost-based  
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A patient registered as an outpatient at a hospital presents with three encounters,what will the ambulatory patient classification reimbursement be based on?   assignment of multiple APCs that reflect all services provided, with discounting  
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Which type of hospital is excluded from the inpatient prospectice payment system?   cancer, or childrens hospitals  
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Which is the unit of payment for the inpatient prospective payment system?   hospital admission  
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Which is a relative value unit in the medicare physician fee schedule payment system?   practice expense  
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The intent of establishing a limiting charge for nonPARs is to:   offer financial protection for medicare enrollees  
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Which is classified as a nonphysician practitioner?   physician assistant, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists  
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Which publication communicates new or changed policies and procedures that are being incorporated into a specific CMS manual?   program transmittal  
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When an office-based service is performed in a health care facility, payment is affected by the use of:   a site of service differential  
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