Payment Cycle Playbook
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Who Pays & How Much?
Mish-Mash
100

This is the main purpose of weekly payment cycles in Medicaid.

What is ensuring compliance with timeliness requirements and maintain provider participation?

100

The number of providers listed on the RA report.

What is 1?

100

Agents can search and view vendor payments and provider records from this system/ screen.


What is the Finance Tile in VUE360?

100

This is an overpayment or reversed claim resulting in excess funds received by the provider.


What is a credit balance?

100

The Finance Department does not perform this function. (Choose one.) What is:

  • Manages Medicaid funds and provider payments?
  • Reviews and corrects claim errors?
  • Tracks and reports financial transactions?

What is "Reviews and corrects claim errors?"

200

This is the day of the week that the Payment Cycle for health care claims begins.

What is Friday?

200

This is the function of the Remittance Advice (RA) in Medicaid claims processing.

What is “explaining payment decisions and adjustments to providers”?

200

This is a Provider or organization who receives payment from the District.

What is a Vendor?

200

This is the legal obligation of third parties (such as private health insurance, Medicare, or other liable entities) to pay for medical services before Medicaid does.

What is Third Party Liability (TPL)?

200

This is used to send escalations to Finance.

What is a notification in Verint?

300

Providers must submit health care claims by this day and time.  

What is by 3pm on Friday?

300

BONUS! Are these statements TRUE or FALSE?

  • DHCF, official state Medicaid agency for D.C., covers over 40% of D.C. Residents.

  • More Than Just Medicaid, DHCF also manages programs like CHIP and Medical Charities.

Both are TRUE!

300

These are the two categories of provider repayments for the District.

-Monthly Payment Plan

-Standard Payment Plan

300

Identify the primary, secondary and last payer if a Medicaid Beneficiary is hospitalized after a car accident and has Employer-sponsored health insurance, Auto insurance with medical coverage, and Medicaid coverage.

Who are

  • Primary: Auto Insurance
  • Secondary: Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance.
  • Last: Medicaid.
300

This information is included in an escalation sent to Finance via Verint.

What is information such as claim number, amount in question, research steps, etc?

400

This report is run every Thursday to identify payments that have not yet had checks issued.

What is the Payment Reconciliation Report?

400

This is the information found on a Remittance Advice. (List as many items as you can.)

What are

  • List of all claims finalized during the payment cycle
  • All payments and adjustments, across medical services, made to a provider during a payment cycle.
  • Explanation of the RA remark codes and claim adjustment reason codes resulting in a denial.
400

This claim status means that the claim has to wait for the financial cycle to process.

What is WAITPAY or WAITDENY?

400

One reason Medicaid would pay since Medicaid is the payer of last resort.


What is:

"the other insurers deny the claim or their coverage is insufficient?"

400

These are common areas of focus for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicaid audits. (Select all that apply)

A. Eligibility verification
B. Claims accuracy
C. Financial integrity
D. Marketing strategies

What are:

A. Eligibility verification
B. Claims accuracy
C. Financial integrity

500

This is the correct next step when a payment has been pending for 15 days without a check issued.

What is “Escalate to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OFCO)”?

500

This is when an RA generates. (Choose one.)

  • when the provider has claims included in the payment cycle
  • when the provider has a payout without a claim
  • for Provider Incentive Payments (PIP)

What is “when the provider has claims included in the payment cycle”?

500

This is generated when the Claim moves to PAY or DENY, and notifies the provider of payments and adjustments.

What is the Remittance Advice (RA) 835/820?

500

The number of days Providers have to dispute Medicare disallowance.

What is 30?

(If the provider does not appeal within 30 days, it is unlocked and reversed.)

500

When there is a credit balance, an automated Accounts (a)_______ invoice fixes the credit balance and an Accounts (b)___________ invoice gets the money back from the Provider.


What are:

(a) Payable?

(b) Receivable?

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