MBC

documents health care services provided to a patient and includes patient demographic (or identification) data, documentation to support diagnoses and justify treatment provided, and the results of treatment provided.

• FECA federal employee compensation act
• HIPAA health information portability and accountability act

A pt paid in adv & the 3rd-party payer paid above the est. amt. Should you apply the payment?

• credit
• debit

Which coding system is used for reporting procedures and services in physician offices?

• ICD
• CPT

Diagnoses are coded according to

• ICD-
• CPT

AdjudicationHealth insurance specialists play an important role in the ----------- of denied or unpaid claims.

• Correction
• Adjudication

A standardized, machine -readable formatElectronic data interchange is achieved by using

• OCR
• standardized machine readable format

The notice received by a provider from a payer that contains payment information for a claim is the

• remittance advice
• ABN

A coding consultant who is paid by a practice to assist the coding and billing staff would most likely be classified as an

• independent contractor
• dependent contractor

Physician offices should bond employees who have which responsibility?

• clerical
• financial

another term for stealing money

• embezelling
• smuggling