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Comparing quality data from a facility against data provided by external agencies or an internal || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
goal is called what? - ✔✔Benchmarking
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When an EHR specialist reviewed hospital data, she found that when one provider admits patients
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the facility's revenue's increased, and when another provider admits patients, revenues declined.
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After figuring out both providers practice internal medicine and admit the same type of patients
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the EHR specialist should look at which of the following data first? - ✔✔Average length of stay
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Accounts receivable is...? - ✔✔The amount due to the hospital for goods and services already
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provided.
If an EHR specialist works in a provider's office, he may need to provide data in response to
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what? - ✔✔National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS): a national survey that collects
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data on ambulatory medical care
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A patient is covered by commercial insurance, while her neighbor has no insurance. When the
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patient's neighbor went to the provider's office for a chest cold, she was billed $137.50 for the
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visit and a strep test. The insured patient wonders why her explanation of benefits only shows a
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payment of $42 for her office visit, even though they saw the same provider. What explains this
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cost difference? - ✔✔Insurance companies negotiate discounted rates that are generally lower tan
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the actual price set by the providers office.
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What results in a hospital financial inquiry on patients who receive treatment for the same illness
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or injury? - ✔✔Higher length of stay then average
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PPS helps control costs through what? - ✔✔predefining the payment for services based on
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