Admitting & Registration
Guarantor
Who is the person that is ultimately responsible for paying the patient’s bill?
$1556
What is the Medicare Part A deductible?
All Medicare beneficiaries admitted as in patients.
Who receives the
Important Message from Medicare?
An x-ray of the breast in a device that compresses and flattens it.
What is a mammogram?
RICC
What are Iredell Health System’s Core Values?
A type of Medicare health plan offered by contracting private companies, give all Part A and Part B benefits.
What is a Medicare Advantage plan?
The physician who supervises a patient’s care during an inpatient stay.
Who is the Attending Physician?
$233
What is the Medicare Part B deductible?
Failing to answer MSP questions, requesting insurance information from an Emergency or Birthplace patient at check in, and failing to provide a Good Faith Estimate within the specified time frame.
What are compliance issues?
A non-invasive test that is used to reflect underlying heart conditions by measuring the electrical activity of the heart.
Electrocardiogram
A simple acronym that represents a powerful way to communicate with our patients to reduce anxiety, improve communication and improve their overall satisfaction with the care they receive.
What AIDET?
A physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
Who is an Oncologist?
Full name and date of birth.
What are Iredell's primary search identifiers?
A fixed sum that a beneficiary must contribute towards the cost of their health care before insurance benefits begin.
What is a Deductible?
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
HIPAA
A blood draw.
What is venipuncture?
ABN
What is the Advance Beneficiary Notice?
Policy that ensures that patients and visitors needs are met in a timely manner by requiring ALL staff answering ALL call lights ALL the time.
What is No Pass Zone?
Tab used to provide patients access to their electronic medical record (patient portal).
What is Healthlife Enrollment?
The individual who carries the insurance coverage.
Who is the subscriber?
What is the
Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act?
EMTALA
Partial or complete loss of consciousness.
What is syncope?
GHP
What is Group Health Plan?
Treatment received by a patient in a hospital or clinic. The patient does not require hospitalization.
What is Outpatient Care?
To inform the patient that Medicare may not consider the health services being provided as medically necessary and that there is a good possibility that Medicare will not pay for the service provided and the patient may be billed for the service.
What is the purpose of the
Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN)?
A fixed amount the beneficiary pays for health care services, regardless of the actual charge; the amount is designated as the patient’s responsibility.
What is a co-pay?
To inform the patient that Medicare may not consider the health services being provided as medically necessary and that there is a good possibility that Medicare will not pay for the service provided and the patient may be billed for the service.
What is the purpose of the
Advance Beneficiary Notice?
High, excessive, beyond normal.
What is hyper?
CFW
What is the Common Working File?
Validating with third party payors that a given plan is active and ascertaining the patient’s deductible, co-pay, limitations and estimated cost.
What is Benefit Verification?