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Medical Billing
Midterm
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Medical
Undergraduate 1
05/16/2012

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Insurance information should be collected on
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the first visit
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the person responsible for paying a medical bill and is not always the patient
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the guarantor
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a uniform, national identification number providers will use; it is the identifying number that prompted revision of the CMS-1500 form.
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NPI
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the process done before claims submission to examine claims for accuracy and completeness
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audit
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claims that have errors or omissions which must be corrected and resubmitted to receive reimbursement
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dirty claims
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when the physicians determine how much to charge for a procedure takes in consideration the
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time, knowledge, decision making, and type of procedure
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when working under a managed care plan, physicians agree to accept fees that are
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predetermined by the plan
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type of signatures that are scanned and accepted as proof of approval for the content of an electronic document
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electronic or digital signatures
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transferring data back and forth between two or more entities
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electronic data interchange
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the best way to work with patients regarding financial matters is to explain the office financial policis when___
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they make the appointment
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the medical assistants responsibility is to ___patients about the fees, ____ payments from patients, and _____ for long-term payments.
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inform, collect, make payment plans
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should include billing, insurance and collection procedures; write fairly detailed guidelines to follow, and fully disclose these policies to patients
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Medical office credit policies
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giving patients _______ for treatment may help simplify collection by preventing misunderstandings, may help to avoid forgetting that a fee was quoted and eliminate the possibility of later misquoting the fee
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estimates
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a credit balance occurs when a patient__
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overpays
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advantages of internet banking
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convenience, time, safety
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one disadvantage of e-banking is
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learning software
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something legally transferable to another party is considered
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negotiable
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the following would make an instrument negotiable
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written and signed by maker, contain a promise to pay, be payable on demand, by payable to order or bearer
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a maker is any individual, corporation, or legal party who
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signs the check
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a bank or facility on which a check is drawn or written
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a drawee
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A order that can protect the depositor from loss resulting from stolen, lost, or incorrectly drawn checks
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a stop-payment order
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A bank's own check drawn on itself and signed by an authorized official
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cashier check
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the depositor's own check that has been certified to be valid by an authorized official of the bank
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certified check
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can have limitations such as the amount or the number of days for which it can be cashed
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limited check
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a paper document that is purchased with cash and often used to mail money
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money order
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used for traveling so that individuals do not have to carry large amounts of cash
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travelers check
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has a detachable form that is used to itemize or specify the purpose for which the check is drawn
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voucher check
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to maximize money, bills should be paid
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close to the due date
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should be checked immediately on receipt and scanned carefully for errors
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bank statements
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the three most common types of bank accounts
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checking, savings, and money market savings
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the purpose of a ____ is to provide an itemized billing statement on which the physician notes charges
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charge slip
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the advantage of a cycle billing system
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continuous cash flow
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advantage of using small claims court to collect delinquent accounts
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cheaper
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when you use a pegboard system you enter payments received for medical services rendered in the
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credit column.
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on the ____ column you can enter any professional discounts, write-offs, or disallowances
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adjustment
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what not to do when using telephone collection method
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call between 9pm and 8am, no repeated calls, do not call work, no hostility
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when using the telephone to collect accounts, the medical assistant should try to get a _____ on a date that payment will be made
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definite commitment
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sends statemtns at given times of the month, such as one quarter of the accounts receivable the first week, and so on through the month
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cycle billing
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transferring or carrying from a book of original entry to a ledger
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post
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most medical offices accept___
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credit cards, debit cards, or checks
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if you make a mistake when writing a check, the best practice is to
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VOID it
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You should deposit checks received__
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as soon as possible
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generally not accepted because you cannot verify the reliability of the maker
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third-party checks
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the first thing the medical assistant should do when a check is returned unpaid by the bank is to
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contact the maker
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if a bank cashes a check that is later returned for insufficient funds, the person who____ will be charged to recover the amount lost
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wrote the check
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you can request the bank to issue a _____order on a check that you wrote in payment for a medical supply if the check was accidentally written for more than was owed, the payment did not reach the payee within a reasonable amount of time, or the vendor to whom you wrote the check refuses to deliver your order
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stop payment
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types of endorsements
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restrictive, blank, and special
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blanket-position bonding covers
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everyone
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personal bonding covers
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specific individual
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the country is divided into___ federal reserve districts
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12
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an insured account requiring a minimum balance that draws interest at a higher percentage than a regular savings account
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money market savings account
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a plan in which payments are transferred, usually electronically, by a paying agency directly to the account of a recipient
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direct deposit
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the part of the ABA number following the dash on top in the fraction designates__
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the bank within that region
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