inpatien coding (penn foster exam)
Kristi Kalman
14606 Paul Revere Ln.
Plainfield, IL 60544
Student number: 21999254
Exam # 38179300
1. The three goals of the Physician Payment Reform is to decrease medicare expenditures by promoting preventative care and preventing unnecessary hospital stays. The next goal is to Re-distribute physicians payments more equitably by ensuring that physicians receive a fair payment for services rendered. The last goal is to ensure quality health care at a reasonable rate.
2. Modifier -25 would be the appropriate choice, it is a separately indentifiable service that was provided by the same physician on the same day.
3. Medicare pays physicians for services based on three basic compnents called relative value units. The first is Physician work which is the time, skill, and training it takes to provide a particular service. The next is practice expense which is everything that goes into running a practice, like equipment, rent, supplies, etc. The last of these is malpractice, which covers the cost of professional liability expenses.
4. The three types of persons eligible for medicare are the elderly who are age 65 and older. The second are people who are disabled and drawing by social security disability The third are people who are in the stage of renal failure (ESRD).
5. The six basic location methods to find main terms in the index of CPT are; procedure/service, synonym, eponymous, anatomic site, condition of disease, and abbreviations.
6. 99253 is the appropriate E/M code of the initial impatient consultation. The consultation was with a detailed history, a detailed exam, and MDM of low complexity
7. The four elements of history are the chief complaint, the second is the history of present illness. The third is the review of systems, and the final is past, family, and/or social history.
8. The complexity of medical decision making is based off of the number of diagnoses, risk or morbidity (complication or death), and the amount of data (complexity).
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14606 Paul Revere Ln.
Plainfield, IL 60544
Student number: 21999254
Exam # 38179300
1. The three goals of the Physician Payment Reform is to decrease medicare expenditures by promoting preventative care and preventing unnecessary hospital stays. The next goal is to Re-distribute physicians payments more equitably by ensuring that physicians receive a fair payment for services rendered. The last goal is to ensure quality health care at a reasonable rate.
2. Modifier -25 would be the appropriate choice, it is a separately indentifiable service that was provided by the same physician on the same day.
3. Medicare pays physicians for services based on three basic compnents called relative value units. The first is Physician work which is the time, skill, and training it takes to provide a particular service. The next is practice expense which is everything that goes into running a practice, like equipment, rent, supplies, etc. The last of these is malpractice, which covers the cost of professional liability expenses.
4. The three types of persons eligible for medicare are the elderly who are age 65 and older. The second are people who are disabled and drawing by social security disability The third are people who are in the stage of renal failure (ESRD).
5. The six basic location methods to find main terms in the index of CPT are; procedure/service, synonym, eponymous, anatomic site, condition of disease, and abbreviations.
6. 99253 is the appropriate E/M code of the initial impatient consultation. The consultation was with a detailed history, a detailed exam, and MDM of low complexity
7. The four elements of history are the chief complaint, the second is the history of present illness. The third is the review of systems, and the final is past, family, and/or social history.
8. The complexity of medical decision making is based off of the number of diagnoses, risk or morbidity (complication or death), and the amount of data (complexity).
9.