2024 CRCR Terms | New Full Questions and Answers ( Included ) 100% Correct
1. AAR
Answer: After Hours Activity Report
2. ABN
Answer: Advance Beneficiary Notice
3. ACC
Answer: Ambulatory care center
- Access
Answer: Ability to receive hospital, physician or other medical services without regard to an individual's ability to pay
- Accounts receivable (A/R)
Answer: Money owed to an organization for goods or ser- vices furnished
- Accreditation
Answer: Formal process by which an agency or organization evaluates and
recognizes a program as meeting certain predetermined criteria or standards. A formal process for certifying that providers and health plans meet predetermined standards.
- Accredited Standards Committee X12 (ASC X12)
Answer: Group of industry members that creates electronic data interchange
standards for submission to the American National Standards Institute for subsequent approval and dissemination.
8. ACS
Answer: Ambulatory care services
- Acute care
Answer: Hospital care given to patients who generally require a stay up to seven days and that focuses on a physical or mental condition requiring immediate intervention and constant medical attention, equipment, and personnel
10. AD
Answer: Admitting diagnosis 1 / 4
11. ADC
Answer: Average daily census
- Administrative services only (ASO)
Answer: Contract between an insurance company or claims administrator and a self- funded plan where the insurance company claims administrator performs certain services but does not assume any risk; services usually include claims processing but may also include such services as group billing, actuarial analysis, utilization review, and provider network development
- Admission
Answer: Formal registration of a patient who is to be provided with medical care by the provider
- Admitting diagnosis
Answer: Diagnosis provided on admission, explaining the reason for admission and coded according to current diagnosis coding conventions
15. ADP
Answer: Automated data processing
16. ADR
Answer: Average daily revenue
17. ADRG
Answer: Adjacent diagnosis-related group; alternative diagnosis related group
18. ADS
Answer: Alternative delivery system
19. ADSC
Answer: Average daily service charge
20. ADT
Answer: Admission / discharge / transfer
- Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN)
Answer: The mandated form required to be used for Medicare beneficiaries related to non-covered services. Waiver that a provider has a patient sign confirming the patient's understanding that certain provided 2 / 4
services may not be reimbursable under Medicare and therefore are the patient's responsibility.
22. AFDC
Answer: Aid to Families with Dependent Children
23. AFDS
Answer: Alternative financing and delivery systems
- Affiliation
Answer: Arrangement between organizations by which the named organizations
remain independent but have influence on each other; affiliations may or may not be permanent and may not result in common ownership or control of the affiliates.
- After care
Answer: Services following hospitalization or rehabilitation
- Aging
Answer: Process wherein accounts receivable or accounts payable are scheduled,
listed, or arranged based on elapsed time from date of service or transaction
27. AHA
Answer: American Hospital Association
28. AHP
Answer: Allied health professional
29. AHRQ
Answer: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
Answer: State-based federal cash assistance program for low-income families
- AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAP)
Answer: Joint federal-state sponsored pro- grams that assist eligible HIV-positive patients in obtaining HIV medications
32. ALC
Answer: Alternate level of care
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- All inclusive rate
Answer: Charge rate established by a healthcare provider that covers all services a beneficiary may receive or be entitled to receive over a designated period of time
- Allied health personnel
Answer: Specially trained and licensed health workers other than physicians,
dentists, optometrists, chiropractors, podiatrists, and nurses
- Allowable costs
Answer: Costs incurred by a provider in the course of providing ser- vices that are recognized as eligible for reimbursement by a third-party payer
- Allowance for bad debts
Answer: An estimate of the amount of accounts receivable that a healthcare
provider will be unable to collect; it reduces the value of accounts receivable.
- Allowed amount
Answer: Maximum amount Medicare will pay in a given area for a covered service
38. ALOS
Answer: Average length of stay
- Ambulatory care
Answer: Health services rendered outside the inpatient setting
- Ambulatory patient group (APG), Ambulatory payment classification (APC)
Answer: Institutional outpatient reimbursement system based on the methodology
developed by CMS; APCs/APGs are to outpatient visits/services what DRGs are to inpatient hospital admissions; the payments are based on categories or groupings of like or similar services requiring like or similar professional services and supply utilization.
- Ambulatory setting
Answer: Institution-based healthcare in which services are provided in the
outpatient setting.
42. AMCC
Answer: Automated multi-channel chemistry
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
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Answer: Parent organization of the ASC X12 and the recognized coordinator and