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Medical
Question | Answer |
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Bundling | one CPT is used to group more than one component (procedure) |
Medicare part A | hospuital benefits of a nationwide health insurance for 65 years and older |
Benign | not cancer |
malignant | cancerous, can metastasize(grow)can be lifwe threatening |
Work Compensation insurance | Insurance available for on the job injuries |
Medicare | insurance offered to all people over the age of 65 years of age |
Capitation | reimbursement to a healcare provider as a fixed amount per number in a given time period |
Clean claim | insurance claim from with no mistakes |
Fiscal agent | an insurer which is under contract to administer an insurance program (process and pay claims) |
Gatekeeper | Primary physcian or health care profesional assigned by the insurer to review the medical managment tp plan enrolles |
Network | a health care profesional who has contracted with an insurance plan the patient has |
Out of network | A health care profeional who has not contraced with an insurance plan the patient has |
Participating Provider | a physcian who accepts assignments under insurance contract |
Provider | A physcian, supplier or provider of medical care |
Subscriber | person named as principal in an insurance contract |
Dependents | family members of the insured who are covered under the insurance plan |
Effective date | the date the coverage starts |
Lapse | termination of a coverage sue to failure to pay |
Mandated | rquired by law |
New patient | a person who has never been een by the provider |