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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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    Coding

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    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 some numbness and tingling traveling

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    War Medical History

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    Like Confederate doctor John Chilsolm‚ many surgeons and medical aids kept close records of surgeries to learn and expand from past mistakes and triumphs. The meticulous accounts of early and evolved surgeries show us the colossal progress surgeons made in their techniques over the course of the war and their hope that it would help future physicians. For example‚ the six-volume Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion published by the Surgeon General’s Office just

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    how clinical problem evolve in the context of the family over time” (McGoldrick‚ Gerson & Petry‚ 2007‚ p. 2). A genogram is a pictorial diagram which can show anything from family relationships to medical history” Also.‚ “complexity of a family’s complex‚ including family history‚ patterns‚ and events that may behave ongoing significance for patient care” (McGoldrick‚ Gerson & Petry‚ 2007‚ p. 4). Genograms allow individuals to identify patterns of behaviors and hereditary tendencies

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    History of Medical Drugs

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    Evolution of Medicinal Drugs | | 4/11/2011 | History of Medicinal Drugs People have been treating physical and mental ailments with medicines for thousands of years. More than 500 medicinal remedies were listed on clay tablets from Babylonia‚ from the eighteenth century B.C. In the earlier day humans believed the world was controlled by good and evil spirits. People who became sick were thought to be victims of evil forces or of a god’s anger. The early remedies were medicines

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    DB Billing

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    Week 6 DB Billing 2 Discuss why it is important for billers and coders to be familiar with software programs. Software programs like Epic‚ Centricity‚ AdvancedMD‚ Flash Code‚ Eclipse‚ and others have fields where coders can enter the correct procedure and diagnosis codes. These software programs may come with look-up tools that help coders find the correct code‚ but coders should always use their coding manuals to get the last word on which codes to use. The benefits of working with coding software

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    Coding Tips

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    determining the first-listed diagnosis per the coding conventions of ICD-9-CM‚ as well as the general and disease-specific guidelines within ICD-9-CM‚ will have precedence over the outpatient guidelines. •In the outpatient setting‚ code all documented conditions that coexist at the time of the encounter AND require or affect patient care treatment or management. Do NOT code conditions that were previously treated and no longer exist. However‚ history codes (V10-V19) may be used as additional codes

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    Medical Records Documentation and Billing Medical Records Documentation and Billing Compliance plans are put into place to find‚ correct‚ and prevent illegal medical office practices. In correlation with medical records documentation standards‚ these plans eliminate the possibility of errors by training staff members who work with medial records including front office staff along with billers and coders. Steps five and six of the medical billing process are related to compliance plans

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    Medical Field History

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    The medical field has changed drastically since the beginning of the American Revolution. Caring for casualties on the battlefield was a major problem in the recovery and care as this was the responsibility of the Quartermaster Sergeant and select Soldiers from the field‚ mainly Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs). Injured Soldiers could not call for the skilled medic as they did not exist yet. Regimental Surgeons performed initial treatment‚ but there was still a problem as the numbers of casualties

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    Billing Process

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    The Medical Billing Process is composed of ten different steps‚ each as equally important as the next. These ten steps are pre-register patients‚ establish financial responsibility‚ check in patients‚ review coding compliance‚ review billing compliance‚ check out patients‚ prepare and transmit claims‚ monitor payer adjudication‚ generate patient statements‚ and follow up payments and collections. When you bill a patient you want to be sure that you are not only doing it correctly but that you are

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