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Patient Registration Form

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The insurance claim begins when the patient makes the call to a health care provider's office and requests an appointment. moreover, the administrative staff must determine if the person is a new patient requesting an initial appointment or an established patient returning for additional services. The preclinical interview and check-in of a new patient is more extensive than that for an established patient. There are three parts to the development of a claim: The preclinical interview and check-in Step 1 perform a new patient intake interview - This allows the office staff to gather preliminary data to ensure that the patient has called the appropriate office for an appointment and to check on the patient's insurance eligibility and benefit …show more content…

Schedule the patient's appointment.Managed care patients making appointments with a specialist must obtain preauthorization from their PCP. Step 4. Patient fills out Registration Form.Each new patient must fill out a Patient Registration Form at the time of the first visit to the practice. The completed Patient Registration Form is used to open the patient's medical, account, and insurance billing records. Step 5. Make a photocopy of the front and back of all the patient's insurance identification cards Step 6. All patients with insurance must sign the Authorization for Release of Medical Information Form. Step 7. Establish a new patient's chart and enter patient demographics into the practice's patient data base. Step 8. Create patient's encounter form.The encounter form is the financial record source document used by health care providers and other personnel to record the patient's treated diagnoses and the services rendered to the patient during the current encounter. The post clinical patient check out Step 1. Code, if necessary, all procedures and diagnoses Step 2. Enter the charges for procedures and/or services performed and total the charges Step 3.Post all charges to the patient record either manually or through the

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