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Health Insurance

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Rates established in advanced but based on reported health care costs (charges) from which a predetermined per diem rate is determined   Prospective cost-based rates  
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Rates associated with a particular category of patient(inpatient) and established by the payer prior to the provision of health care services.   Prospective price-based rates  
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any patient with a diagnosis from 1 of 10 CMS determined DRG's who is discharged to a post acute provider, is treated as a transfer case: this means hospitals are paid a graduated per diem rate for each day   IPPS (inpatient prospective payment system) transfer rule  
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Payment system that reimburses providers for services and procedure by classifying services according to RVU's   MPFS-Medicare physician fee schedual  
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issues predetermined payment for services   PPS-Prospective payment system  
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Payment system for ambulance service for Medicare beneficiaries   Ambulance fee schedule  
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Medicare has reimbursed hospitals for inpatient hospital services according to a predetermined rate for each discharge   IPPS-inpatient prospective payment system  
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Medicare reimburses DMEPOS either 80% of the actual charge for the item or the fee schedule amt. whichever is less   DMEPOS-durable medical equipment, prosthetics/orthotics, and suplies fee schedule  
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What bundles ESRD drugs and related lab tests with the composite rate payment,resulting in one reimbursement amount paid for ESRD services provided to patients?   ESRD composite payment rate system  
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uses a classification system called home health resource group to establish prospective reimbursement rates for 60 day episode of home health care   HH PPS- home health prospective payment system  
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data entry software is then used to collect OASIS assessment data for transmission to state database   HAVEN-home assessment validation and entry  
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Medicare payments for hospital inpatient care were based on a ------ which meant hospitals received 80% of reasonable charges   retrospective reasonable cost system  
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Extent of physiological decompensation or organ system loss of function   SOI-severity of illness  
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Likelyhood of dying   ROM-risk of mortality  
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Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services formerly HCFA   CMS  
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third-party payer that contracts Medicare to carry out the operational functions of the Medicare program   MAC-Medicare administrative contractor  
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uses ambulatory payment classification (APC) to calculate reimbursement: was implemented for billing of hospital-based Medicare outpatient claims   OPPS -Outpatient Prospective Payment System  
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Adjusts payments to account for geographic variations in hospitals labor costs   wage index  
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Software is the computerized data entry system used by inpatient rehab facilities to creat a file in a standard format   IRVEN- Inpatient Rehabilitation Validation and Entry  
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LTCHPPS- Long-term(acute) care hospital Prospective Payment System   This prospective system replaces the reasonable cost-based pmt. system under which long-term (acute)care were previously paid  
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SNF PPS-Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System   SNF's were no longer paid on a reasonable cost basis but rather on the basis of PPS  
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Data entry system used to enter MDS data about SNF patients and transmit those assessments to individual state databases   RAVEN- Resident Assessment Validation and Entry  
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reimburses providers according to predetermined rates assigned to services (revised every year)   MPFS-Medicare Physician Fee Schedule  
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dollar multiplier that converts relative value units (RVU's) into payments   conversion factor  
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Does not accept assignment from Medicare-subject to a 5% reduction of Medicare Physician fee schedule(MPFS)   non-PAR- nonparticipating provider  
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[MPFS-(MPFSx5%)]x115%=MPFS-Medicare Physician fee schedule   limiting charge  
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Notifies Medicare Beneficiaries of actions taken on claims   MSN- Medicare Summary Notice  
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MSP- Medicare Secondary Payer   ie.auto ins, workers comp, EGHP (employer group health plan)  
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