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Week 1 Flashcards

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Mission statement

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Create value for organizations in healthcare industry thru innovative business solutions built on superior technology enhanced with excellent service

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3 adjectives to describe quadax

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Medical billing, technology, service

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4 values

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Dependability, integrity, respect, teamwork

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6 business units

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Managed a/r, administration, reimbursement support, itis, network services, edi

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Founding year

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1973

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First quadax client

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Ohio medicaid

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First quadax function

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Data entry with ibm punch cards

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3 benefits of being privately held

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Flexibility, agility, quick response to change

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7 office locations

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Strongsville, middleburg, columbus, norwalk, beachwood, youngstown, GA

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Harp stands for?

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Healthcare a/r processor

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2 harp models

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Partner (share work), manager (quadax does it all)

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Pas stands for?

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Patient advocacy software

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3 functions of pas

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Pre-billing, medical records and appeals

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Edi stands for?

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Electronic data interchange

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Who is xpeditors biggest client?

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Harp

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Define clearinghouse

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Facilitator of transactions between provider and payer, used for faster reimbursement and accuracy

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Csc

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Client support center; xpeditor

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Quick

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Quadax internal check; formatting claims

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ecm

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Enterprise content management; onbase

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Who developed onbase?

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Hyland

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How long does harp implementation take?

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90 days

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3 levels of harp database

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Software (shared by all), virtual (shared by some), client (individual)

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Purpose of medical billing

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Get claim to insurance as quickly and accurately as possible for max reimbursement

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12 Steps in the journey

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Encounter, superbill, coding, pre-billing, ticket, claim generation, xpeditor, payer edits, adjudication, remittance, insurance followup, statement

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2 parts of demographic information

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Patient info, insurance

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ELEL and RERE

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Electronic eligibility and review response; used in pas to make sure insurance will accept procedure

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What makes up a ticket?

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Demographics from drs and charge info from crs, united by common account number

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Cms1500

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Outpatient form

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Ub04

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Inpatient form

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837

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Electronic form created by xpeditor to send to insurance

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Emdeon

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Post office in the sky; clearinghouse for small payers

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Payer edits

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Insurance company checks patient id, codes, and eligibility

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Adjudication

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Decide what to pay - all, none, line item, or deductible required

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835

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Electronic remittance sending money back thru clearinghouse for payment

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Eft

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Electronic funds transfer

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Era

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Electronic remittance advice

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Lockbox

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Where money and other correspondences from insurance company goes before being posted in system

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Insurance follow up

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Investigation & resubmit of denied claims

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38
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Expected growth in healthcare industry in next 10 years

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10.8%

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39
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Leading cause of death in 1900s

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Gastrointestinal infection

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8 Causes of improved care/prolonged life

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Infection control, less invasive surgery, gene therapy, preventive testing, specialized equipment, robotics, telemedicine, electronic charting

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A/r

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Accounts receivable, money due to provider

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Accounts payable

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Money due from provider

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8 Modern medical challenges

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Controlling expenses, occupancy rates, coordinating with insurance, decreased income, hipaa, jcaho, avoiding duplication, staffing

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Quadaxs largest client base

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Labs and hospitals

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2 types of insurance

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Individual and group

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Traditional insurance plan

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Most flexible, choose any doctor, deductible & co-insurance

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Ppo

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Preferred provider organization, any provider but pay more out of network, no pcp

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Hmo

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Health maintenance organization, pcp required, in network only, authorizations required, no deductiblr

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Pos

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Point of service, combo of ppo and hmo, pcp oversees most care

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Capitation

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Provider paid a set amount per billing cycle to see x number of patients

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Dmg

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Delegated medical group, aka ipa, california plan based on capitation and preventive medicine

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Ipa

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Independent practice organization, aka dmg

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Hra

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Health reimbursement account, employer pays

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Hsa

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Health savings account, employee pays

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Medicare

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Federal plan for elderly, disabled & end stage renal

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Part a

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Part b

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Outpatient

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Part c

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Advantage replacement; commercial with no secondary allowed

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Part d

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Prescriptions

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Medigap

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Supplementary insurance for medicare, commercial

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Rrmc

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Railroad medicare

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Umw

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United mine workers

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Tricare

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Active and retired military

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Champva

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Relatives of permanently disabled veterans

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Medicaid

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Eligibility determined monthly based on income, can supplement medicare, state funded, patient not responsible for balance

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Workers comp

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Occupational illness and accidents, pre-auth required, patient not responsible for balance

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Self funded

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Employer pays third party admin, keeps premiums to pay claims, use stop loss insurance

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Assignment of benefits

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Patient agrees to let insurance pay provider directly

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Coordination of benefits

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Order of insurance (1st, 2nd, etc)

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Co-insurance

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Percentage required from patient

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Guarantor

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Person responsible for bill, can be dependent if they are over 18

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Pre-authorization

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Is service covered and medically necessary?

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Pre-certification

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Is treatment covered?

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Pre-determination

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Maximum allowable amt

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Ucr

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Usual customary rate, guideline for payment

76
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Blue card local vs home plan

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Local is where lab is located, home is listed on patient insurance card

77
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Where is blue card claim sent?

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State where specimen was collected

78
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Who maintains cpt and icd?

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World health organization

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5 uses of icd and cpt coding

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Analysis of diseases and therapies, reimbursement, decision support, outbreaks, fraud

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Icd

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International classification of diease

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2 volumes of icd

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Tabular by body system, alphabetical

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Steps in icd coding

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Determine reason for visit, use alphabetical index, use tabular index

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V code

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Visits without a procedure, primary or standalone

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E code

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External cause of injury or poisoning, cannot be primary or stanalone

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Cpt

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Current procedural technology, 5 digits with 2 possible modifiers

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6 sections of cpt manual

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Eval and mgmt, anesthesia, surgery, radiology, path/lab, medicine

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3steps in cpt coding

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Determine procedures, id codes, determine need for modifiers

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Cpt tiers

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Tier 1 is frequently used, tier 2 is infrequent

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Modifier 22

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Greater than listed

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Modifier 25

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Spearately identifiable procedures

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Modifier 26

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Professional component

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Modifier tc

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Technical component

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Modifier 50

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Modifier 52

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Reduced service

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Modifier 59

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Multiple times in a day

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Modifier 90

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Outside lab

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Modifier 91

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Repeat procedure

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Modifier ga

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Abn signed

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Abn

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Advanced beneficiary notice, patient notified they’ll be responsible for balance

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Pqrameter

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Determines rules for how data is handled in harp

101
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Roster

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Group of individuals from same facility with same charge grouped for easier billing

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