Week 2 Flashcards
(20 cards)
Patients are scheduled during the first 30 minutes of each hour, leaving the last 30 minutes for same-day appointments
Wave scheduling
Appointments are scheduled for a particular amount of time based on patient need. This type of scheduling is designed to keep a continuous flow of patients coming through the office.
Stream scheduling
Sending a patient to a provider of a different specialty for treatment beyond he scope of practice for the initial practitoner
Referral
Term used to describe a visit in which a patient fails to present for examination without giving the provider advance notice.
No-Shows
No scheduled appointment. Patients sign in upon arrival and are seen by the provider in that order
Open Hours (scheduling)
Scheduled the same wave but with the exception of scheduling patients in the last 30 minutes at 10-20 minutes intervals.
Modified wave scheduling
A format for establishing a time schedule for appointments.
Matrix
The same appointment time was given to two or more patients.
Double booking
Scheduling patients for specific type of visits or procedures at specific times
Clustering
Also called superbills; a record of information obtained during a health care visit, usually a printed out document, that designates what services and/or procedures are preformed and at what level of acuity those services should be billed. Also called a charge slip.
Encounter form
Patient medical record from a single medical practice, hospital, or pharmacy.
Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
One of the most widely used methods of charting, to collect patient visit information, appropriate for most types of patient encounters.
Subjective Objective Assessment Plan (SOAP)
Subjective Objective Assessment Plan (SOAP)
Relating to the person who is thinking, saying, or doing something; personal; of a disease symptom, felt by the individual but not perceptible to others.
Subjective
Record of the continuing progress and treatment of a patient.
Progress note
The person designated by a health care organization, whether hospital system or private practice, who handles and oversees the maintenance of protected health information.
Privacy Officer
(Formally known as meaningful use) under MIPS the focus shifted from meaningful use to interoperability and improving patient access to health information.
Medicare Promoting Interoperability (PI) Program
A system of cross-referencing information contained in office files so that the data may be searched using different characteristics as the query term; the second step in filling.
Indexing
Demographic term that indicates what societal group a patient identifies with.
Ethnicity
The arrangement of events, dates, and so on in order of occurrence.
Chronologic
