Commonly Used Terms and Definitions

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Across
  1. 3. 11-digit number that identifies the labeler, product, and trade package size.
  2. 5. Prescription drug benefit available to everyone with Medicare.
  3. 8. a flat rate.
  4. 9. Number that tells the pharmacy database which PBM is to receive the claim for a particular prescription.
  5. 11. Organization that provides administrative services in processing and analyzing prescription claims for pharmacy benefit and coverage programs.
  6. 12. Directions of the prescription.
  7. 13. Federal law that outlines requirements that employer-sponsored group insurance plans, insurance companies, and managed care organizations must satisfy in order to provide health insurance coverage in the individual and group healthcare markets.
  8. 14. trying other medications first before “stepping up” to drugs that cost more.
  9. 15. Amount patient must pay before the prescription drug plan or other insurance begins to pay.
Down
  1. 1. Amount patient may be required to pay as a means to share the cost of services. It is a percentage.
  2. 2. Process used by health care providers to determine if they will cover a prescribed procedure, service or medication.
  3. 4. process of determining which of two or more insurance policies will have primary responsibility of processing/paying a claim and the extent to which the other policies will contribute.
  4. 6. Medication administered directly into the veins.
  5. 7. the act of processing a pharmacy claim.
  6. 10. Unique 10-digit code issued to health care providers in the U.S.