Module 4 ( Billing & Reimbursement Of 3rd Party) Flashcards
Generally referred to as Obama care – it is the landmark health reform registration passed by the 111th Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in March 2010
 Affordable Care Act (ACA)
It is a benchmark that has been used over 40 years  for pricing and reimbursement a prescription drug for both government and private payers. He has often been compared to the ‘ list price ‘ or ‘ stickerprice ’Meaning it is an elevated drug price that is really what it is actually paid.
 Average wholesale price (AWP)
The batch and claims give father information about a claim then what it is seeing on the initial screen
Batch/claim (BNC)
Insure an agency this is the person that help you to find your insurance. They are the ones that are negotiating the best price/coverage for you or your company.
 Broker
Define narrowly refers to the third tier health insurance plan that allows member to the health saving account (HSA), or
Health Reinbursement Account (HRA)or similar medical, payment,product to pay routing healthcare expensive directly .
Consumer Driven Health plan CDC)
Code that are an integral part of a accurate, billing, and provide us with the reason why a specific brand or generic, is dispense based on the prescriber instruction.
Dispense As Written (DAW)
Employee benefits include various types of non-wage compensation, provided to employees in addition to their normal wages or salaries
Employer Benefits (EEB)
No one person meet more than the individual maximum amount. Once they have met it, they move on to the next tier in the process (co-pay or no co-pay); it is then up to the rest of the member (all of the co-pay added together) to meet the family maximum amount, it means everything get it together
Embedded
a saving account used in conjunction with a high deductible, health insurance policy that allows users to save money, tax free against medical expenses
Health Saving Account (HSA)
A plan with a higher deductible than a traditional insurance plan. The IRS defines a high deductible health plan, as any plan with a deductible of at least $1,350 for an individual or $2700 for a family
High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP)
A healthcare common procedure coding system (HCPCS) level II alpha - numberic code issued by CMS to identify and describe a drug product. And describe a procedure that was happened. alpha numeric code. It was issued by the CMS and get paid for that, but that J- code needs to be written on that prescription so that way when it is audited, we could see it exactly what it is very important to the diagnosis that we are treating with a specific drug product.want to know exactly FDA approval and do u needed h this expensive? Drug product specific and specific diagnosis, exactly reason why do u need for aFDA or really needed,,
Medical Exclusion (J-Code)
When a doctor requires a member to have a brand-name prescription that has a generic available in the market place, and letter of medical necessity should be attached with the PA.
Letter of Medical Necessity (LOMN)
Generally refers to a payer or PBM generated list of products. That includes the upper limit or maximum amount that a plan will pay for generic drugs or brand-name.
Maximum Allowable Cost (MAC)
The PBM practice of negotiating, a lower cost with the pharmacy and building a higher cost to the patient. The PBM keeps the difference or ‘ spread.’
Mac Spread
The whole family deductible/OOP must be met before anyone can move to the next step. No one is left behind. They all move together or no one moves. Even if one member meets , the individual amount, they will not move until the family amount is Met. There’s only apply to the non-embedded plants that have one or more members.
Non-Embedded