Technical Jargon
Medical Billing
Healthcare Laws
Northwell Numbers
EHR
100

A technology that uses software robots to automate repetitive, rules-based tasks, mimicking human actions on computers

What is RPA - Robotic Processing Automation?

100

The Bill Type = 111

What is the Initial Inpatient Bill?

100

The year the HIPAA Act was established into law.

What is 1996?

100

105,000

What is the number of employees?

100

I am the founder of the new EHR system that will go live on November 1, 2025


Who is Judy Faulkner?

200

It's a software development practice that automates the process of building, testing, and deploying code changes

What is CI/CD - Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment?

200

The Bill Type = 137

What is an Outpatient Replacement Bill?

200

PHI (Protected Health Information) is part of what Healthcare Law.

What is HIPAA?

200

There are 54 of these in the greater New York region

What is the number of Northwell GoHealth Urgent Care locations?

200

I am at 600+ Ambulatory sites and 2 hospitals

What is Soarian?

300

The processes and procedures used to ensure that software and other tech products meet established quality standards.

What is Quality Assurance?

300

The 3rd digit of the Bill Type is called

What is the Bill Frequency?
300

Comprehensive health reform law focused on expanding access to affordable health insurance, improving the quality of care, and controlling healthcare costs.

What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?

300

There are over 900 of these

What are Northwell owned and operated Ambulatory sites?

300

I am used at Valley Stream previous known as Franklin Hospital

What is Optimum aka Keene?

400

What is the acronym for a web address

What is URL? 

Uniform Resource Locator

400

The electronic 837 file is used to submit claims to insurance companies, also known as Payers. Its counterpart file is used to communicate payment details from payer to providers.

What is the 835 file, also known as Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA) file

400

Addresses fraud against government healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid

What is the False Claims Act?

400

There are 27 of these

What is the number of Northwell owned hosptials?


400

EHR has a comprehensive view of a patients Medical History. I focus on medical records from a single provider.

What is an EMR: Electronic Medical Record?

500

What is the name of the first internet search engine

What is Archie?

500

This classification is used for hospital payment and reimbursement purposes particular, Medicare

What is the DRG?

Diagnosis Related Group

500

Mandates that hospitals provide emergency medical care to anyone who needs it, regardless of insurance status or ability to pay. 

What is EMTALA?

Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act

500

There are 7 different versions running at Northwell.

What is Invision?

500

An electronic health record (EHR) that is shared across different health systems. 

What is a SHR = Shared Health Record aka an Interoperable EHR