Health Insurance & the Revenue Cycle
The start of the revenue cycle.
What is WHEN PATIENT MAKES AN APPOINTMENT?
The ability of computer systems or software to exchange and make use of information.
What is INTEROPERABILITY?
An account meant to hold a large amount of money accessed infrequently.
What is a MONEY MARKET account?
The method of preventative health involved in managing a disease after diagnosis is made.
What is TERTIARY PREVENTION?
The series of events that leads to a microbe to cause an infection.
What is the CHAIN of INFECTION?
The DR. office formally requests payment from the Insurance company.
What is a CLAIM?
Digital communication to provide medical care remotely.
What is TELE-HEALTH?
Accounting method reporting transactions when money physically moves
What is CASH BASIS accounting?
Method of prevention before a health effect occurs, Immunizations for example.
What is PRIMARY PREVENTION?
A pressure cooker that uses steam and pressure to to destroy microorganisms.
What is an AUTOCLAVE?
The people covered by Medicare.
Who are PEOPLE 65 and OLDER or with certain disabilities?
The core purpose the the patient medical record.
What is COMMUNICATION?
The change in value of fixed assets overtime.
What is depreciation?
The amount of energy needed to raise 1 g of water by 1 degree C.
What is a CALORIE?
A term meaning the absence of any disease causing microbes.
What is ASEPSIS?
Strings of alpha numeric characters translating diagnosis and treatment plans.
What is MEDICAL CODING?
Term for the quality of the provision of healthcare given over time, sometimes from multiple providers.
What is CONTINUITY OF CARE?
The formula for calculating net worth
What is NET WORTH = ASSETS - LIABILITIES?
A disease from which the patient is not expected to recover.
What is a TERMINAL ILLNESS?
An infectious disease transmissible from animals to humans.
What is ZOONOSIS?