Insurance
Covered Mostly accidents recieved from travelling by steamboat or train.
What is the first insurance policies in the US?
PPACA stands for _____.
What is Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?
When everyone pays a little and the sick get the benefits.
What is Pooling the Risk?
This is a program available to individuals Age 65 or older, Disabled no matter their income, and those with End-Stage Renal Disease.
What is Medicare?
What must you be credentialled as to receive any type payment when billing for surgical services under BCBS?
What is an "Assistant-at-Surgery"?
Companies could not compete for employees by paying a higher salary so they began offering this.
What is Employer offered Heath Insurance?
The program the Affordable Care Act expanded to cover all adults with income below 138% of the Federal Poverty Line.
What is Medicaid?
These groups usually have insurance: those that the Employer provides insurance for, those eligible and able to afford insurance from the Marketplace, and ____.
What is the members of the military?
This is the section of Medicare that covers inpatient care recieved in a hospital or skilled nursing facility.
What is Medicare Part A?
This is the medicare reimbursement rate for a Physician assistant when they see a patient that the physician is not also involed in the encounter.
What is 85% of the physician fee schedule?
What is Blue Cross?
The president who introduced the Affordable Care Act.
Who is President Obama?
This is who you have to have purchasing insurance plans for your state's Insurance Marketplace not to struggle.
What is healthy people?
The group that manages Medicare.
What is CMS? (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
This liberalized Medicare coverage of Physician Assistant services by removing limits based on setting and place of service.
What is the Balanced Budget Act (BBA)?
A physician provided you a service, and you were charged a fee. Providing ANY care, at ANY cost.
What is "Fee for Service"?
Who is the Patient?
This is the percentage of the cost of care that insurance will cover.
What is the Actuarial Value?
This is part of Medicare Coverage that offers prescription drug benefits.
What is Part D?
The way you can bill to recieve 100% of the physician fee schedule. This can occure only if certain conditions are met such as the physician MUST have saw the patient initially and dictated the first encounter.
What is "Incident to" billing?
As healthcare grew in popularity, no one wanted to cover either of these groups.
What is the elderly or the poor?
The year the comprehensive health care reform law known as the Affordable Care Act enacted.
What is March 2010?
The actuary value of a plan is 90%, then the patient is responsible for the remaining ____% of the cost of all covered benefits.
What is 10%?
This program differs from state to state.
What is Medicaid?
What is the Direct Payment bill?