RAD400 REVIEW | TEST EXAM | 100% ACCURACY.
What is the facility structure hierarchy? - Answer: Facility
Service Area
Revenue Location or Location
Department
What is a Facility? - Answer: A record that represents the entire organization. There is
one facility record.
Settings in more specific levels will override settings in the facility record.
What is a Service Area? - Answer: Separate business entities within the organization.
Exists mainly for Epic's billing applications.
Can also prohibit staff in individual locations from accessing other locations' confident
information, such as revenue data.
What is a Location? - Answer: AKA revenue location, this represents clinics and
hospitals. Each revenue location is linked to a service area.
If patient can go in and be billed, this is a revenue location.
What is a Department? - Answer: Represents places where users log in or where
patients receive care at your organization.
How does department influence a Radiant build? - Answer: Departments determine
where procedures are scheduled and performed
Providers and resources are only schedulable in specific departments.
Schedules of availability are specific to both a provider/resource and a department.
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,T/F: You build out a separate department record for each type of modality at your
location. - Answer: True
What is an HOD? - Answer: Hospital Outpatient Department, where clinicians in these
departments see both inpatients and outpatients, requiring the use of both inpatient and
outpatient tools.
What is an HOV? - Answer: Hospital Outpatient Visit. Special type of encounter for
HODs, they are hospital encounters that are scheduled like outpatient encounters,
which allow clinicians to use inpatient tools in an outpatient setting.
What happens when a clinician accesses an appointment in an HOD? - Answer:
Conversion: opens new HOV. Appropriate for outpatients.
OR
Redirection: Opens existing hospital chart. Unique to HODs and typically for admitted
patients.
What are key imaging-related settings in the Department master file? - Answer: External
Name
Specialty
Center
Rev Location
EpicCare Department Information: Default Profile for Workstations in Department Field
Context-based Charging: Technical, Professional, Global
HOD Settings: Parent hospital/clinic area, Is this department an HOD?
Radiology/Cardiology Settings: Default Charge Source
Radiology/Cardiology Reading Roles: Provider Reading Roles
What is the function of External Name? - Answer: This will appear on patient-facing
correspondence, such as appointment reminder letters.
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, What is the function of Specialty? - Answer: Used to ensure that only users with
appropriate login context can schedule radiology exams
What is the function of Center? - Answer: HAS NO REVENUE IMPLICATIONS. Used to
group departments geographically to make scheduling more efficient.
What is the function of Rev Location? - Answer: Linking a department to a revenue
location in the facility structure.
Once it is done, you cannot modify the field since this field affects revenue stream, and
changing that link causes major issues with charge routing.
IF IT IS WRONG, YOU MUST CREATE A NEW DEPARTMENT RECORD.
What is the function of Default Profile for Workstations in Department Field (EpicCare)?
- Answer: Attach a profile record with clinical settings specific to users who log in to this
department.
What is the function of Technical, Professional, Global charges? - Answer: Technical:
charges that cover the cost of using equipment, facilities,non-physician medical staff,
supplies, etc.
Professional: charges that cover the cost of the physician's professional services.
Global: charges that covers both technical and professional services.
What is the function of Parent hospital/clinic area (HOD settings)? - Answer: This
settings links department to revenue location for ADT purposes
What is the function of Is this department an HOD (HOD settings)? - Answer: If yes, this
will apply the standard HOD settings, which tell the system to either convert the
appointment for outpatients, or redirect to the current admission for inpatients.
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What is the facility structure hierarchy? - Answer: Facility
Service Area
Revenue Location or Location
Department
What is a Facility? - Answer: A record that represents the entire organization. There is
one facility record.
Settings in more specific levels will override settings in the facility record.
What is a Service Area? - Answer: Separate business entities within the organization.
Exists mainly for Epic's billing applications.
Can also prohibit staff in individual locations from accessing other locations' confident
information, such as revenue data.
What is a Location? - Answer: AKA revenue location, this represents clinics and
hospitals. Each revenue location is linked to a service area.
If patient can go in and be billed, this is a revenue location.
What is a Department? - Answer: Represents places where users log in or where
patients receive care at your organization.
How does department influence a Radiant build? - Answer: Departments determine
where procedures are scheduled and performed
Providers and resources are only schedulable in specific departments.
Schedules of availability are specific to both a provider/resource and a department.
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,T/F: You build out a separate department record for each type of modality at your
location. - Answer: True
What is an HOD? - Answer: Hospital Outpatient Department, where clinicians in these
departments see both inpatients and outpatients, requiring the use of both inpatient and
outpatient tools.
What is an HOV? - Answer: Hospital Outpatient Visit. Special type of encounter for
HODs, they are hospital encounters that are scheduled like outpatient encounters,
which allow clinicians to use inpatient tools in an outpatient setting.
What happens when a clinician accesses an appointment in an HOD? - Answer:
Conversion: opens new HOV. Appropriate for outpatients.
OR
Redirection: Opens existing hospital chart. Unique to HODs and typically for admitted
patients.
What are key imaging-related settings in the Department master file? - Answer: External
Name
Specialty
Center
Rev Location
EpicCare Department Information: Default Profile for Workstations in Department Field
Context-based Charging: Technical, Professional, Global
HOD Settings: Parent hospital/clinic area, Is this department an HOD?
Radiology/Cardiology Settings: Default Charge Source
Radiology/Cardiology Reading Roles: Provider Reading Roles
What is the function of External Name? - Answer: This will appear on patient-facing
correspondence, such as appointment reminder letters.
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, What is the function of Specialty? - Answer: Used to ensure that only users with
appropriate login context can schedule radiology exams
What is the function of Center? - Answer: HAS NO REVENUE IMPLICATIONS. Used to
group departments geographically to make scheduling more efficient.
What is the function of Rev Location? - Answer: Linking a department to a revenue
location in the facility structure.
Once it is done, you cannot modify the field since this field affects revenue stream, and
changing that link causes major issues with charge routing.
IF IT IS WRONG, YOU MUST CREATE A NEW DEPARTMENT RECORD.
What is the function of Default Profile for Workstations in Department Field (EpicCare)?
- Answer: Attach a profile record with clinical settings specific to users who log in to this
department.
What is the function of Technical, Professional, Global charges? - Answer: Technical:
charges that cover the cost of using equipment, facilities,non-physician medical staff,
supplies, etc.
Professional: charges that cover the cost of the physician's professional services.
Global: charges that covers both technical and professional services.
What is the function of Parent hospital/clinic area (HOD settings)? - Answer: This
settings links department to revenue location for ADT purposes
What is the function of Is this department an HOD (HOD settings)? - Answer: If yes, this
will apply the standard HOD settings, which tell the system to either convert the
appointment for outpatients, or redirect to the current admission for inpatients.
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