Medical Billing Terms#2-Winter Term
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| Fee Schedule | A physician's listng of all reimbursement fees for all procedues performed in the practice
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| Fiscal Agent | An insurance company that processes and pays claims on behalf of a state Medicare carrier
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| HICN-Health Insurance Claim Number | A ten to eleven digit number assigned by Medicate to its beneficiarie.
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| Limiting Charge | the highest amount a beneficiarycan be charged for a covered service by non-participating providers
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| Medicaid | Provides health coverage for the categorically needy
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| Medicare | primarily for people oldr than 65 and othrs eligible for Social Security; federal insurance program established in 1965 under the Social Security Act.
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| Medicare Managed Care Plans | These are health care choices such as HMO's. Part C of the Medicare program
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| Medigap | Health insurance policies sold by private companies, designed to supplement or fill in the gaps between Medicare and the patient.
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| Non-assigned claim | a claim form which directs payment to the beneficiary.
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| Non-participating Physician | a physician who has not enterted into a written agreement wit an insurance company to accept the plan's fee for services rendered
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| Participating Physician | A physician who has entered into a written agreement with an insurance company to acceptthe plan's fee for service rendered as payment in full
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| Premium | a dollar amount the insured person pays for insurance coverage
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| Relative Value Studies (RVS) | relative values listed by health care procedure codes:allows comparison of reimbursement for different codes.
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| Relative Value Unit | The time that is multiplied by a monetarty conversion factor to establish physician payment for the resource based relative value system or scale
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| Remittance Notice | paper summarized statement for providers including payments/rejections for one or more beneficiaries
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| Resourced-Based Relative Value System/Scale (RBRVS) | a system that calculates physician reimbursement for services using relative value units
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| Usual, Customary, and Reasonable (UCR) | a method used by insurance carriers to establish provider payments based on a compendium of other like provider fee.
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