Insurance
Medical Terminology
PCP
100

If a patient presents a non participating insurance card, you set the account with this 

What is Patient Bill/ Pbill?

100

The sensation that tiny insects are crawling on or under the skin, often associated with withdrawal, neuropathy, or psychiatric conditions.

What is formication?

100

A new resident provider at DOCS

Who is Brooke Terkovich?

200

CO-45, contractual obligation, should not be applied to patients with this type of insurance

what is a non par insurance?

200

Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia- caused by rapid cooling and rewarming of the capillaries in the sinuses.

What is brain freeze? 

200

The facility that reads radiology films for PCP

What is Western Colorado Mountain Radiology?

300

A third-party service that processes and transmits claims between healthcare providers and payers, ensuring they meet formatting and compliance standards

What is Payer Path( a clearinghouse)? 

300

A medical condition characterized by the sensation that you or your surroundings are spinning or moving, even when you're perfectly still

What is vertigo?

300

Timeframe patient's are eligible for cash pay discount

What is four weeks from the first statement?

400

A unique 10-digit identification number for healthcare providers in the U.S.



What is an NPI?

400

an ovarian cyst filled with old, dark blood, associated with endometriosis

What is a Chocolate Cyst?

400

This provider is retiring July 1st 2025

Who is Dr. Glen Madrid?

500

The most common denial

What is eligibility?

500

A term for a surgeon who signs off on a procedure but doesn’t actually perform it—ethically and legally problematic

What is a Surgical Ghost?

500

The provider who took over Geriatrics

Dr. Christine Tardif


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