Part 1 – Participating providers
Discuss participating provider contracts, including contracted fee schedules as shown in Kinn’s, The Administrative Medical Assistant, 15th ed., pages 325-330.
In your submission be sure to identify why it is important for the Medical Administrative Assistant to know which insurance companies the provider is contracted with.
What is the difference between contracted and non contracted providers? What is the impact to the patient if the provider is non contracted with their insurance company?
Make sure the first part is minimum of 150 words
Part two — The Affordable Care Act changed the way healthcare was managed in the early 2000s, as discussed on page 331 of Kinn’s, The Administrative Medical Assistant, 15th ed.
Define the impacts of this Act, list at list the (3) changes and how they impact the role of the Administrative Medical Assistant’s role in the office.
Part 3 – List and discuss three (3) examples of governmental health insurance plans as discussed in Chapter 15, of Kinn’s The Administrative Medical Assistant, 15th ed., Chapter 15, Pages 320-334.