THE CLAIM GAME
Insurance claim form used for professional billing
What is a HCFA 1500?
CLIA waived test is billed by the physician
What is QW?
PPO
What is preferred provider organization?
Medical term for fingers
What is phalanges?
What is Rebels?
Box 23 on the HCFA 1500 contains this information
What is the authorization number?
Patient has an office visit to follow up on his diabetes, and complains of right shoulder pain. The provider performs an xray of the right shoulder.
What is 25?
CPT
What is current procedural terminology?
Cutting out or off, without replacement, a portion of a body part
What is excision?
This Las Vegas legend died on August 16, 1977 in Memphis
Who is Elvis Presley?
Box 1a on the HCFA 1500 contains this information
What is the insurance ID#?
A physician is acting as an assistance surgeon during a surgery
What is 80?
NDC
What is national drug classification?
The position in which you are lying flat on your back, face upward
What is supine?
The Hoover Dam, constructed in 1931, was originally named this
What is Boulder Dam?
Box 21 on the HCFA 1500 contains this information
What is the diagnosis code?
Two surgeons are performing 2 parts of the same procedure in the same operative session
What is 62?
CMS
What is Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services?
Prefix meaning "without"
What is a-?
Tourists love to take photos in front of this famous sign
What is welcome to FABULOUS Las Vegas?
Box 17 on the HCFA 1500 contains this information
What is the referring provider name?
When a patient returns to the OR within the global period of a previous procedure for a staged procedure
What is 58?
HIPAA
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
Suffix meaning "cutting out" or "removal"
What is -ectomy?
This hotel holds the Guinness World Record for largest chocolate fountain
What is the Bellagio?