Insurance Terminology
HIPAA
AR Follow UP
Abbreviations
Denials Management
100

Amount patient must pay before insurance coverage begins to pay the provider.

What is a deductible?
100

This was established in order to set national standards for: Electronic health care transactions, code sets, unique health identifiers, Security, the privacy of protected health information (PHI)

What is HIPAA?

100

This RA Code provides an additional explanation for a claim adjustment reason code.

What is the RARC?

100

EOB

What is Explanation of Benefits?

100

Prior authorization of services is one method of veryifing that a requested service is __________.

What is medically necessary?

200

Number assigned by insurance company to identify the group under which a patient is insured.

What is the Group Number?

200

A _________ ________ subject to HIPAA is an individual or facility that creates patients’ physical or mental health information and transmits PHI in any type of electronic form

What is a covered entity?

200

This RA Code tells why a claim or charge was paid differently than it was billed.

What is the CARC?

200

ICN

What is Internal Control Number?

200

When an insurance plan does not pay for treatment, an _______ is the process of objecting this decision.

What is an appeal?

300

This is a medical record in digital format of a patient’s hospital or provider treatment. This format is designed to be shared/ exported throughout the nation.

What is an EHR (Electronic Health Record)?

300

Established a set of standards to protect PHI that is electronically held or transmitted.

What is the Security Rule?

300

If you receive a denial for "other payor primary", this means that member hasn't updated their insurance information. Insurance payors may request from the patient that a Other Health Insurance form be filled out and sent back within a specific time frame. This is to determine what?

What is COB?

300

SAD

Self-Administration Drugs

300

CO96

What is non-covered charges?

400

Requirement of insurance plan for primary care doctor to notify the patient insurance carrier of certain medical procedures (such as outpatient surgery) for those procedures to be considered a covered expense.

What is Prior-Authorization?

400

_________ may be disclosed to the patient, facility-owned treatment entities including consultants and other providers, and payment and health care operations such as billing, business planning and quality review.

What is PHI (Protected Health Information)?

400

Claim is that has errors sent back to the provider.

What is a rejected claim?

400

DX

What is diagnosis?

400

CO50

What is payer deemed not medically necessary?

500

Once the claim is sent to the insurance company, the insurance company processes the claim, this process is called ___________.

What is the adjudication process?

500

Any _________ ________ who deal with personal information must specify the contract with the health care organization how they will safeguard PHI.

What is business associate?

500

Claim with an ICN returned back to the provider is known as a ____________.

What is a denied claim?

500

ABN

What is Advanced Beneficiary Notice?

500

CO29

What is the time limit for filing has expired?