Healthcare Regulation
This act, passed in 1996, protects the privacy and security of patient health information.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
This process involves converting the diagnoses, procedures, and services provided into a standardized numerical format for insurance billing
What is medical coding?
This imaging technique uses high-frequency sound waves to create images of the internal organs.
What is an ultrasound?
UC San Diego’s mascot named after the son of Poseidon
What is a Triton?
Loyola University Chicago
Who is Muskaan?
This act, passed in 2010, aims to reduce healthcare costs and expand coverage while regulating health insurance companies.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
CPT Codes 99201-99205
What are the E&M codes for a new patient visit?
This test involves using electrodes to measure the electrical activity of the heart and detect abnormalities.
What is an electrocardiogram (EKG)?
UC San Diego is home to this renowned center for oceanography, which is one of the most influential marine research institutions globally.
What is the Scripps Institution of Oceanography?
University of Iowa
Who is Ryshawn
This regulatory body sets standards for the licensure and certification of healthcare facilities, ensuring they meet certain criteria.
What is the Joint Commission?
This payment system reimburses healthcare providers based on the quantity of services rendered, rather than outcomes.
What is fee-for-service?
This life-saving procedure is performed to open an airway and restore breathing to someone who is choking.
What is the Heimlich maneuver?
This actor, known for his role as Walter White on the TV series “Breaking Bad,” is a UC San Diego alumnus.
Who is Bryan Cranston?
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Who is Felicia?
Also known as the Physician Self-Referral Law, it is a federal civil law that prevents physicians from referring patients to certain entities if they have a financial relationship with those entities.
What is Stark law?
This term refers to the process of identifying, appealing, and resolving claims that have been rejected by insurance companies.
What is denial management?
This procedure involves inserting a flexible tube with a camera into the body through the mouth to examine internal organs, often used in the digestive tract.
What is an endoscopy?
This annual UC San Diego event, held each May, features a mix of music, food, and student activities that also has a statue with same name.
What is Sun God Festival?
University of Pittsburgh
Who is Chelsie?
This federal agency is responsible for enforcing healthcare laws, including those related to fraud, abuse, and patient privacy.
What is the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)?
The current US coding system that is used to classify and code diagnoses, symptoms, and procedures in healthcare settings.
What is ICD-10?
This procedure involves inserting a tube through the mouth or nose into the windpipe to maintain an open airway.
What is (endotracheal) intubation?
UC San Diego is recognized as a major research institution, receiving significant funding from this U.S. federal agency, which supports science and technology initiatives.
What is the National Institutes of Health (NIH)?
Baruch College
Who is Maryia?