TAILIEUCHUNG - Lecture Medical assisting: Administrative and clinical competencies (2/e) - Chapter 17

Chapter 17 - Patient billing and collections. After completing chapter 17, you will be able to: Discuss the importance of accounts receivable to a medical practice, explain how to accept and account for payment from patients, prepare an invoice, manage a billing cycle efficiently,. | Chapter 17 PowerPoint® to accompany Second Edition Ramutkowski Booth Pugh Thompson Whicker Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. Medical Assisting Chapter 17 Objectives: 17-1 Discuss the importance of accounts receivable to a medical practice. 17-2 Explain how to accept and account for payment from patients. 17-3 Prepare an invoice. 17-4 Manage a billing cycle efficiently Patient Billing and Collections Objectives (cont.) 17-5 Describe standard collection techniques. 17-6 Explain how to perform a credit check. 17-7 Identify credit arrangements. 17-8 Recognize common collection problems. Patient Billing and Collections Introduction Medical Assistants will take on duties that are administrative in nature Customers have various payment options Third party payers (insurance carriers) Payment plans Some have large outstanding balances A proper understanding and administration of billing as well as payment collection

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• Medical assisting
• Lecture Medical assisting
• Clinical competencies
• Administrative competencies
• Patient billing
• Standard payment procedures
• Clinical procedures
• Administrative medical assisting
• Clinical medical assisting
• Medical assisting profession
• Medical assistant credentials
• Administrative practices
• Clinical practices
• Medical assisting practice
• Responsibilities of the medical assistant
• Medical assisting organizations
• Medical assisting externships
• Externship scenarios
• Assisting in geriatrics
• Geriatric patients
• Medical office
• Accounting for the medical office
• Assisting in pediatrics
• Pediatric patient care
• Medical coding
• Diagnosis codes
• Minor surgery
• Medical asepsis
• Medical specialties
• Nursing careers
• Medical law
• Physician rights
• Externship process
• Expectations of externship candidates
• Insurance terminology
• Managed care plans
• Accepting payment
• Body organization
• Anatomical terminology
• Integumentary system
• Structure of skin
• Skeletal system
• Bone structure
• Skeletal muscles
• Muscular system
• Cardiovascular system
• Structures of the heart
• respiratory system
• Paranasal sinuses
• Nervous system
• Neuron structure
• Urinary system
• Renal sinus
• Reproductive system
• Male reproductive system
• Female reproductive system