The acronym hcpcs originally stood for hcfa common procedure coding system, a medical billing process used by the centers for medicare and medicaid services (cms) However, some file signatures can be recognizable when. Prior to 2001, cms was known as the health care financing administration (hcfa)
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Hcpcs was established in 1978 to provide a standardized coding system for describing the specific items and services provided in the delivery of health.
The cpt code set describes medical, surgical, and diagnostic services and is designed to communicate uniform information about medical services and procedures among physicians, coders, patients, accreditation organizations, and payers for administrative, financial, and analytical purposes.
A clinical coder —also known as clinical coding officer, diagnostic coder, medical coder, or nosologist —is a health information professional whose main duties are to analyse clinical statements and assign standardized codes using a classification system. Balance billing, sometimes called surprise billing, is a medical bill from a healthcare provider billing a patient for the difference between the total cost of services being charged and the amount the insurance pays A cheat sheet (also cheatsheet) or crib sheet or job aid is a concise set of notes used for quick reference Cheat sheets were historically used by students without an instructor or teacher's knowledge to cheat on a test or exam
A file signature is data used to identify or verify the content of a file Such signatures are also known as magic numbers or magic bytes and are usually inserted at the beginning of the file Many file formats are not intended to be read as text If such a file is accidentally viewed as a text file, its contents will be unintelligible
