Completing the 1500 Health Insurance Claim Form

This course explains the purpose of the 1500 Health Insurance Claim Form and describes how the form should be completed.

Estimated course completion time: 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Credit Contact Hours:2.25

Tag(s) (CL) - Student, (CL) - Early Careerist, Billing and Collections, (ST) - Claims Adjudication, (ST) - Revenue Cycle, (ST) - Coding, (ST) - Medicaid Payment and Reimbursement, (ST) - Medicare Payment and Reimbursement, (ST) - Payment Reimbursement and Managed Care, (ST) - Physician Payment and Reimbursement, (PL) - Basic, (RF) - Claims, (RF) - Revenue Cycle, (RF) - Billing, (RF) - Reimbursement, (AD) - Hospitals and Other Providers, (AD) - Physicians and Other Practitioners

Description

Identify the purpose of the 1500 billing form.
Recognize the history of the 1500 billing form.
Define assignment of benefits.
Identify the relationship of assignment of benefits to the insured's signature.
Complete the first 13 items of the form.
Recognize how patient conditions are described on the 1500 Health Insurance Claim Form.
Complete items 14-22 of the form that focus on physician and supplier information.
Define the National Provider Identifier (NPI).
Identify and define Place of Service codes.
Define the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS).