Match the letters and the numbers:
1. What is homebound status?
2. What is a physician referral?
3. What is non-billable time?
4. What is a clarifying order?
5. What are skilled services?
6. What is skilled care?
A. Time spent preparing materials for carriers and intermediaries or on denial appeals.
B. Services that are medically reasonable and necessary to the treatment of a patient and which must be provided by a qualified professional.
C. The type of care that must be demonstrated in Medicare documentation.
D. This is defined as when a person is unable to leave home or cannot do so without considerable and taxing effort.
E. Medicare requires one of these prior to furnishing speech-language pathology services to a beneficiary.
F. A document required when a significant change is made to the patient's plan of treatment.
Answers to Medicare quiz:
1-d; 2-e; 3-a; 4-f; 5-b; 6-c