Medisoft chapter 2 terms
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- a computer logic system that compares information on a claim for consistency
- walkout statement
- a document listing charges and payments that is given to a patient after an office visit
- database
- a collection of related facts
- electronic data interchange
- the exchange of routine business transactions from one computer to another using publicly available communications protocals
- electronic medical record
- electronic collection and management of health data
- HIPAA security rule
- regulations outlining the minimum administrative, technical, and physical safeguards required to prevent unauthorized access to protected health care information
- information technology
- development, management, and support of computer-based hardware and software systems
- business associate
- an organization providing services to a health care provider that involve processing protected health information
- audit/edit report
- a report from a clearinghouse that lists errors to be corrected before a claim can be submitted to the payer
- clearinghouse
- a service company that recieves electronic or paper claims from the provider, checks and prepares them for processing, and transmits them in HIPAA-complaint format to the correct carriers
- HIPAA transaction and code sets standards
- regulations requiring electronic transactions such as claim transmission to use standardized formats
- electronic funds transfer
- a system that transfers money electronically
- X12-837 health care claim
- HIPAA standard format for electronic transmission of a professional claim from a provider to a helath plan