Course BC3030X: Billing and Coding Applications with Simulations (12-17-2012) Section 8 Test Week 2 - Coding Applications Test I • Question 1 Needs Grading LOCATION: Outpatient‚ Hospital PATIENT: Kim Fields PHYSICIAN: Gregory Dawson. MO ENTRANCE DIAGNOSIS: Dyspnea on ascending hills and stairs. Frequent wheezing and productive cough in a patient with a 0.75-pack-year smoking history; quit 1 year ago. Gave good consistent effort. INTERPRETATION: I. Baseline spirometry is normal
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Medical Billing and Coding in the Healthcare Industry Medical billing and coding is one of today’s topics. When services are billed for patients‚ they must be coded based on the documentation the physician has dictated in the patients chart to receive payment from the insurance company. As the physicians office and/or hospitals practice correct medical billing and coding‚ this will prevent audits being brought forth in their practice and/or hospital. Kenny‚ Christopher‚Correct Coding for Dialysis Billing
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chosen to write on the topic: Developing a coding and location system; a case study of St Michael’s Catholic Hospital. 1.2 Research Background In a typical store house‚ there is the need for pragmatic and strategic considerations to be taken with regards to the development of a coding and location system. These two functions play a very important role as far as stores operations are concerned. 1.2.1 Definition of Coding According to Carter‚ and Price (1993)‚ coding is a “system developed that can identify
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Medical Coding 1 1. Differentiate between the official coding guidelines for using V codes in an inpatient and outpatient setting. 2. You’ve started your first day at Venture Outpatient Surgery Center. Explain how you would code an operative report. 3. Discuss coding for obstetrics‚ including items covered by the global fee for antepartum and postpartum periods of normal pregnancy. Part B: Answer each of the following items in two to five sentences. Each answer is worth four points. 1. Explain
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Paivio was born in Thunder Bay‚ Ontario as the son of Aku Päiviö and Ida Hänninen. His father was a Finnish Canadian journalist‚ poet and socialist. Paivio has published approximately two hundred articles and is most known for his dual-coding theory. Dual-coding theory posits that nonverbal and verbal information are stored separately in long term memory. Allan Paivio earned three degrees from McGill University between 1949 and 1959. Paivio earned a Ph.D. in Psychology‚ and has spent over
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The Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) are codes that are for reporting professional services‚ procedures and supplies. Included in that is medical equipment ‚ ambulance services‚ orthotics‚ supplies‚ medication and dental procedures. The HCPCS was developed by the Health Care Financing Administration in 1983. As of 2001 the HCFA is now Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). HCPCS is divided into two subsystems‚ Level I and Level II. Level I is CPT (Current Procedural
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Space-Time Block Coding for Wireless Communications Space-time coding is a technique that promises greatly improved performance in wireless communication systems by using multiple antennas at the transmitter and receiver. Space-Time Block Coding for Wireless Communications is an introduction to the theory of this technology. The authors develop the subject using a unified framework and cover a variety of topics ranging from information theory to performance analysis and state-of-the-art space-time
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1. Discuss two differences between inpatient and outpatient coding. 2. You’ve started your first day at Venture Outpatient Surgery Center. Code the following operative report: Operative Report PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Left flank soft tissue mass POSTOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Left flank soft tissue mass SURGEON: John Doe‚ DO OPERATIONS: Excision of left flank soft tissue mass with layered closure measuring 4 cm‚ with margins‚ prior to excision ANESTHESIA: Sedation with 1% lidocaine with epinephrine
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following scenarios could be classified within code ranges 960–979? Patient has lethargy for unintentionally taking too much of her prescribed sleeping pill 10. A patient was admitted to the hospital with a deep burn to the dermis of the arm. For coding purposes‚ you would classify this condition as undeterminable until the physician clarified with more information Part B: 5.96. D. 933.1‚ 31577 5.97. E932.3‚ 43753 5.98. ICD-9-CM and CPT code(s): E015.2‚ 943.03‚ 948.1 5.99. ICD-9-CM and CPT code(s):
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1. A 54-year-old patient is seen by the physician in the outpatient clinic setting for CLL that is currently in remission. The patient’s WBC counts‚ particularly lymphocytes remain within normal limits 2. Susan Oster‚ 45‚ is admitted to the hospital with a temperature of 38.5º C‚ heart rate 102 beats/min‚ respiration 20/min with septicemia and SIRS. WBC 12‚500. Documentation states respiratory and acute hepatic failure are due to septicemia. 3. OPERATIVE REPORT PATIENT: Mara Bell Lee PHYSICIAN:
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