Easy way to remember that inpatients receive services while outpatients receive locations
What is the SI/LO rule?
100
This dictionary houses all charge procedures
What is the Charge Description Master (CDM)?
100
This user is responsible for collecting copays from patients
What is a cashier?
100
This document is sent to a patient/guarantor to request payment
What is a statement?
100
This application cuts refund checks
What is Accounts Payable (AP)?
200
This date is assigned to a recurring patient upon completing their services.
What is a Discharge (DIS) date?
200
(CRP,”.”,GDP,”.”,AT,PI)
What is the GL formula used for CHARGE transactions?
200
This user reviews their tasks worklist daily to follow up on accounts
What is a Collector?
200
Transferring an account to this will change the account status to BD
What is a Collection Agency?
200
This is the next activity that occurs in the billing office once close day has completed
What is the Billing Process?
300
In the case of multi facility hospitals, this allows all patient data from each facility to be accessed via one central number
What is an EMR number?
300
Date
Number
Journal
What are the 3 pieces of identifying criteria for a batch?
300
This term is used to refer to the average number of days that it takes a hospital to collect money that has been billed
What are AR Days?
300
These appear on a worklist for a collector to help them follow up on unpaid balances
What is a task?
300
This application sends their information off to the Encoder
What is Abstracting (ABS)?
400
This is assigned to an inpatient upon registration and tracks why they have been admitted to the hospital while this is the date assigned to an outpatient upon registration
What is a service and what is a SVC date?
400
LAB, PHA, and RAD are examples of these types of applications
What are Ancillary applications?
400
This user is responsible for following up on failed Account checks
What is a Biller?
400
Once a patient has been set up with one of these, only then can a user transfer the account to Bad Debt manually.
What is a contract?
400
These receivables are sent to this application at close day
What are UR/AR/BD/AL and what is GL?
500
This value (dictionary) in BAR allows for hospitals to group similar patients together for ease of processing
What is the Account Type?
500
This is where a user can see all of the automated batches that were pulled over to PA
What is the Daily System Management Desktop (DSMD)?
500
The billing staff usually waits for this application to code accounts for billing and collections purposes
What is Abstracting (ABS)?
500
Fields can be used to help customize the text for these documents
What are Letters?
500
If this background job doesn't run in the Clinicals/Ancillary applications, it will prevent these from flowing to PA and subsequently prevent this from occurring.