Chapter 3 Crossword Puzzle

3. a payment method
4. a payment method
6. the ideal tool for calculating charges at the time of service is the transaction called real-time claims ________
8. Step 1 of the billing cycle for patients
12. a returning patient is often called this
13. a physician who sends a patient to another physician
15. a payment method
16. patients who do not have insurance
17. abbreviation for software that performs income and expense accounting
18. The rule that determines which of two parents with medical coverage has the primary insurance for a child; the parent whose day of birth is earlier in the calendar year is considered primary.
19. policyholders are assigned
20. primary care physicians

1. the front and back of the insurance card are this
2. Payers may require this before a patient sees a specialist.
5. abbrev. for payments collected up front
7. number of steps in the billing cycle
8. the plan that pays first when more than one policy is in effect.
9. A form listing of the diagnoses, procedures, and charges for a patient's visit; also called the superbill.
10. a number that is part of the basic information gathered when a new patient calls for an appointment
11. An amount (positive or negative) entered in a patient billing program to change a patient's account balance.
13. after payment, a patient is issued this
14. a person responsible for payments