abbreviations
RHIT
Registered Health Information Technician
a government national health insurance program in the United States, for people over age 65, younger people with disabilities, or people with permanent kidney failure
medicare
Current Procedural Terminology, a uniform language for coding medical services and procedures. For example, code 90387, is Individual Psychotherapy. 60 minutes.
CPT codes
Financial help in times of illness, retirement, or unemployment
Benefit
RHIA
Registered Health Information Administrator
Pays for medical assistance for children, parents, caretakers, pregnant women, disabled people, 65 years or older, etc.
Medicaid
CHAMPUS (abreviation)
Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uninformed Services
CEO
Chief Executive Officer
collection of written materials relating to the health care of a patient
chart
The process of transcribing voice-recorded medical reports of healthcare workers.
transcription
CFO
Chief Financial Officer
management; performance of executive responsibilities and duties
administration
International Classifications of Diseases, Tenth Revision, a system used by healthcare providers to classify and code all diagnoses, symptoms, and procedures recorded in conjunction with hospital care in the United States
ICD-10 codes
URC
Usual, Reasonable, Customary
payment by contract by one party to another in which the second party guarantees the first party against financial loss from a specific event
insurance
speaking words to be written by another person that may be recorded
dictation