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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Evaluating Compliance in Coding By: Terry Valencia Axia College of University of Phoenix Billing and Coding compliance strategies protect physicians from financial risk and potential loss of revenues. Physicians must document fully the service they provide and put in force a plan that prevent or reduce coding errors. According to‚ “The Journal of the National Medical Association‚” there are 10 top billing concerns for physicians: Medicare billing (Part A and Part B) Mental health billing
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Question 2 From the given information‚ Jamil Chin is a single‚ 24 year old‚ Singaporean citizen‚ who has a 6 months contract to play football in Australia. He has leased an apartment in Australia for six months and leased out his own furnished apartment in Singapore. He should not be considered as a resident in Australia and therefore his income should not be assessable due to the following reasons. Residency status is the main issue in the above case as this will determine Jamil’s liability
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The coding of DM can be difficult Learn to look for: Various manifestations Types—type 1 or type 2 Controlled or uncontrolled Default is type 2 DM if Type of diabetes mellitus not documented Use Z code for long-term use of insulin--Z79.4 Do not use Z code if insulin is temporarily given to control blood sugar In ICD-10-CM there are 5 category codes for diabetes mellitus: E08 Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition (code underlying condition first) E09 Drug or chemical induced
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LOCATION: Outpatient‚ Hospital PATIENT: Stan Hope SURGEON: Mohamad Almaz‚ MD PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Left shoulder pain and numbness‚ past shoulder injury POSTOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Normal shoulder PROCEDURE PERFORMED: Diagnostic arthroscopy‚ left shoulder CLINICAL HISTORY: This is a 57-year-old with a l0-year-old rotator cuff tear injury to his left shoulder. The patient does heavy lifting for a living. For the past 6 months the patient has been experiencing pain in this shoulder with
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The steadfast rule when it comes to sports and rights fees is that it’s the business of entertainment. The dollars are going to go where the value is. With Rights fees‚ networks pay fees to have the rights to a particular broadcast‚ for example march madness‚ the NFL or the Olympics. Rights fees are determined by the value a certain property holds‚ this is determined by the ratings. The most important ratings market world wide is undisputedly the North American‚ and in particular the US market
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ACA should adopt a “single payer’ system? What is it meant by a single payer system? What is my opinion? The ACA stands for the affordable care act and with this act it’s designed to increase affordable healthcare. I feel as if the ACA should adopt the single payer system. A single payer system is “a national health insurance (Medicare for all) that covers all residents in the U.S.” (Physicians for a National Health Program) My opinion on the ACA adopting the single payer system is that it would be
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The Trouble of Ambulance Fees Based on the financial issues that people have‚ they should not have to pay for a ride in an ambulance. Others may not have any other way to get to a hospital as fast as they would like to‚ because they might be car free at that moment in time. Or‚ they just might not have the amount of money to pay for the bill. The struggle is real in the world‚ and that bill might be taking away money from a savings account just to pay for a fee on a ride. People should have a right
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| Evaluating Compliance Strategies | [Type the document subtitle] | | This is about the evaluating compliance strategies on billing and coding and how if following the guidelines of the insurance companies. Also that the payer will paid the bill if it is correct. | | By: Bonnie S. Jarosiewicz | 1/15/2012 | | It is a very long process for billing to prepare the bill that is required to submit for payment. There also have been a lot of mistakes when billing because some did
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How HIPAA Violations Affect The Medical Billing Process HCR/220 September 23. 2012 How HIPAA Violations Affect The Medical Billing Process HIV and AIDS are two very serious diseases which first came known and reported in the U.S. in 1981. Today it is estimated that 1.7 million people in the U.S. have been infected with HIV since that date 619‚000 people have already died from it. The CDC‚ (Center For Disease Control) estimates that every one in five people living with HIV‚ are unaware that
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