CCA Exam Prep from AHIMA| 339 QUESTIONS| 78 PAGES| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

Mary Smith, RHIA, has been charged with the responsibility of designing a data collection form to be used on admission of a patient to the acute-care hospital in which she works. The first resource that she should use is: UHDDS UACDS MDS ORYX Correct Answer: a When the CCI editor flags that a comprehensive code and a component code are billed together for the same beneficiary on the same date of service, Medicare will pay for: The component code but not the comprehensive code The comprehensive but not the component code The comprehensive and the component codes Neither the comprehensive nor the component codes Correct Answer: b When clean claims are submitted, they can be adjudicated in many ways through computer software automatically. Which statement is not one of the outcomes that can occur as part of auto-adjudication? Auto-pay Auto-suspend Auto-calculate Auto-deny Correct Answer: c Which of the following is not a way that ICD-10-CM improves coding accuracy? Reduces sequencing problems by combining conditions into one code Provides laterality options Captures more details for injuries, diabetes, and postoperative complications Increases cross-referencing Correct Answer: d