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Mod 150 Unit 1
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08/26/2011

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Term
Uniform Bill (UB-04)
Definition
A Uniform Bill insurance claim developed by the National Uniform Billing committee for hospital inpatient billing and payment transactions.
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CDM
Definition
A computer program that is linked to carious hospital departments and includes procedures codes, procedure descriptions, service descriptions, fees, and revenue codes.
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Principal Diagnosis
Definition
A condition that is chiefly responsible for admission.
Term
DRG's
Definition
A patient classification system that categorized patients who are medically related with respect to diagnosis and treatment and statistically similar in length of hospital stay.
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Outpatient
Definition
A patient who receives services in a health care facility, such as a physician's office, clinic, urgent care center, emergency department, or ambulatory surgical center and goes home the same day.
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Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Program
Definition
A program that replaces the peer review organization program and it designed to monitor and improve the usage and quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries.
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Admission Review
Definition
A review for appropriations and necessity of admissions.
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Procedure Review
Definition
A review of diagnosis & procedure to determine appropriateness.
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Readmission Review
Definition
A review of patients readmitted to a hospital within 7 days with problems related to the first admission, to determine whether the first discharge was premature or the second admission is medically necessary.
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Day Outlier Review
Definition
A review of potential day outliers to determine the necessity of admission and number of days before the day outlier threshold is reached as well as the number of days beyond the threshold.
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Per Diem
Definition
A single charge for a day in the hospital regardless of any actual charges or costs incurred.
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Elective Surgery
Definition
A surgical procedure that may be scheduled in advance, is not an emergency, and is discretionary on the part of the physician and the patient.
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APC's
Definition
A system of outpatient hospital reimbursement based on procedures rather than diagnoses.
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Capitation
Definition
A system of payment used by managed care plans in which physicians and hospitals are paid a fixed per capita amount for each patient enrolled over a stated period of time, regardless of the type and number of services provided.
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Inpatient
Definition
A term used when a patient is admitted to the hospital for oversight stay.
Term
Cost Outlier
Definition
A typical case that has an extraordinary high cost when compared with most discharges classified to the same DRG.
Term
Lumbar Puncture
Definition
AKA spinal tap; obtains cerebrospinal fluid into subarachnoid space in the lumbar region.
Term
AMIA
Definition
American Health Information Management Association
Term
AHA
Definition
American Hospital Association
Term
Stop Loss
Definition
An agreement between a managed care company and a reinsure in which absorption of prepaid patient expenses is limited.
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Case Rate
Definition
An average after a flat rate is given to certain categories and procedures.
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Comorbidity
Definition
An ongoing condition that exists along with the condition for which the patient is receiving treatment.
Term
Autologous Bone Marrow
Definition
Bone marrow collected from the patient, processed & later transplanted back into the patient.
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Bone Marrow Aspiration
Definition
Bone marrow sample taken with a needle inserted into marrow cavity and pulled into a syringe.
Term
Clinical Outliers
Definition
Cases that cannot adequately be assigned to an appropriate DRG owing to unique combination of diagnoses and surgeries, very rare conditions or other unique clinical reasons.
Term
DRG Creep
Definition
Coding that is inappropriately altered to obtain a higher payment rate.
Term
Global Components
Definition
Describes the combination of the professional and technical components.
Term
Professional Component
Definition
Describes the services of a physician, including supervision & interpretation of the report.
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Technical Component
Definition
Describes the services of the technological as well as the use of the equipment, film & other supplies.
Term
DDE
Definition
Direct Data Entry
Term
EDI
Definition
Electronic Data Interchange
Term
FL
Definition
Fiscal intermediary, field locator
Term
GAO
Definition
General Accounting Officer
Term
LOS
Definition
Length of Stay
Term
Approach Procedure
Definition
Method used to obtain exposure of a lesion; an anatomical location.
Term
AEP's
Definition
Nineteen criteria for admission under the prospective payment system, separated into two categories, severity and intensity of illness.
Term
NF
Definition
Nursing Facility
Term
OPPS
Definition
Outpatient Prospective Payment System
Term
RHIA
Definition
Registered Health Information Administrator
Term
RHIT
Definition
Registered Health Information Technician
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Transfer Review
Definition
Review of transfers to different areas of the same hospital that are exempted from prospective payments.
Term
TEFRA
Definition
Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act
Term
Looping
Definition
The automated grouper process of searching all listed diagnoses for the presence of any comorbid condition or complication or searching all procedures for operating room procedure or other specific procedures.
Term
Grouper
Definition
The computer software program that assigns DRGs of discharge patients using the following information, patient's age, sex, principal diagnosis, complications, co morbid conditions, principal procedure, and discharge status.
Term
Code Sequence
Definition
The correct order of diagnostic codes when submitting an insurance claim that affects maximum reimbursement.
Term
Charges
Definition
The dollar amount a hospital bills an outlier case on the itemized bill.
Term
Percentage of Revenue
Definition
The fixed percentage of the collected Premium rate that is paid to the hospital to cover services.
Term
Scrubbing
Definition
The process in which computer software checks for errors before a claim is submitted to an insurance carrier for payments.
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DRG Validation
Definition
To find out whether the diagnostic and procedural information affection DRG assignment is substantiated by the clinical information in the patient's chart.
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Preadmission Testing (PAT)
Definition
Treatment and tests done 72 hours before admission.
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