Electronically Processing Claim Forms to Insurance Carriers

question 54

Multiple Choice

Electronically processing claim forms to insurance carriers:

• A) lengthens the turnaround time
• B) reduces the amount of preparation time for the claims processor
• C) is discouraged because of the danger of violating HIPAA
• D) is more expensive than traditional manual claims processing

Interpret two-way tables and perform chi-square tests for association between two categorical variables.

Understand the application and interpretation of the Poisson distribution.

Distinguish between observed and expected counts in chi-square goodness-of-fit tests.

Calculate expected cell counts in two-way tables.

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