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Appendix E
INFORMAL CHECKLIST
HOSPITAL NAME
.
NUMBER
INFORMAL CHECKLIST OF ITEMS TO DESCRIBE THE FLOW OF CLAIMS INFORMATION FROM
THE MEDICAL RECORD DEPARTMENT TO THE BILLING DEPARTlENT TO THE FISCAL INTER-
MEDIARY (~11 responses should refer to calendar year 1974)
1. On the average how many days after discharge was information con diagnosis
transmitted to the billing office for insertion on the Medicare claim form
during 1974?
2. How many days after discharge was the medical record completed and a final
diagnos ~ s determined ?
When more definitive dsagnos tic ~nfc'~matson became available which dif-
fered from that previously submitted to the bills ng office, was that $n-
formation forwarded to the billing office?
4. Did the bill, ng office forward up-dated diagnostic informal' on to the
fiscal intermediary?_
S. In what physical form was information on diagnoses and procedures trans-
mitted to the billy ng office?
Admit ~ sag shee t
Xerox of face sheet
Ent ire record
Discharge list: hand-wrst ten
computerized
Other
typed
6. If portions of the medical record were transmitted, what was the training
of the person in the billy ng 'office who determ: ned the diagnoses that should
be entered on the Medicare claim form?
7. If a discharge list or some ether summary of abstracted information was for-
warded to the billing office, by whom was the diagnostic information ob-
tasnet and from what source?
8. Did the diagnostic information forwarded to the billing office contain codes
narratives, car both?
9.
If the reformat son was coded, how was it translated back to a narrative
form for submission to fiscal intermediary?
10. What definition cuff principal diagnosis was used by the hospital in com
Deleting Medicare claims forms during 1976?
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11. What definition of principal procedure was used by the hospital In complet
sng Medicare claims forms? (Please note whether physical therapy or other
non-surg~cal procedures were secluded on the Medicare claims form. )
12. Did the billing office provide the intermediary with more than one diagnosis?
13. Did the belling of fice provide the intermediary we th more than one procedure?
14. Total number of Medicare discharges from this hospital ~ n 1974.
Representative terms from entire chapter:
diagnostic information
