ANSWERS GRADE A+ SOLUTIONS
Each month the staff of the clinic with the lowest overall waiting
time is awarded a free dessert in the Gulfside healthcare center
cafeteria. take a look at the information listed above. the winner
will be selected based on
a. demonstrative clinical data
b. comparative aggregate data
c. objective individual data
d. duplicate thematic data
b. comparative aggregate data
a union campaign is being conducted at your facility. as a department
manager, it is appropriate for you to tell employees that
a. a strike is inevitable if the union wins
b. wages will increase if the union is defeated
c. you need the names of those involved in union activities
d. you are opposed to the union
d. you are opposed to the union
as the coding supervisor, your job description includes working with
agents who have been charged with detecting and correcting over
payments made to your hospital in the Medicare Fee for Service
program. you will need to develop a professional relationship with
a. the OIG
b. MEDPAR representatives
c. QIO physicians
d. recovery audit contractors
d. recovery audit contractors
employing the SOAP style of progress notes, choose the "assessment"
statement from the following
a. patient states low back pain with sciatica is as severe as it was
on admission
b. patient moving about very cautiously appears to be in pain
c. adjust pain medication; begin physical therapy tomorrow.
d. sciatica unimproved with hot pack therapy
d. sciatica unimproved with hot pack therapy
in preparation for an EHR, you are conducting a total facility
inventory of all forms currently used. you must name each for for bar
coding and indexing. the unnamed document in front of you includes a
checklist for assessing an obstetric patient's lochia, fundus, and
,perineum. the document type you give to this form is.
a. prenatal record
b. labor record
c. delivery room record
d. postpartum record
d. postpartum record.
based on the MS-DRG report above, what is the case-mix index for this
facility?
a. 0.204193
b. 2.965807
c. 11.639
d. 57
b. 2.965807
the special form or view that plays the central role in planning and
providing care at skilled nursing, psychiatric, and rehabilitation
facilities is the
a. interdisciplinary patient care plan
b. medical history and review of systems
c. interval summary
d. problem list
a. interdisciplinary patient care plan
Four patients were discharged from crestview hospital yesterday. a
final progress note is an appropriate discharge summary for
a. howard, who died within 24 hours after his admission for a second
heart attack in 2 weeks.
b. jackson, who had no comorbidities or complications during this
admission for replacement of a pacemaker battery
c. fieldstone, who was admitted just 15 days following a heart attack
for the acute onset of chest pain.
d. babson, who delivered a healthy 8-pound boy without complications
for either mother or child, and was discharged within 36 hours of
admission.
d. babson, who delivered a healthy 8-pound boy without complications
for either mother or child, and was discharged within 36 hours of
admission.
Make Me Better Clinic (MMBC) provides well child visits and childhood
immunizations for four insurance companies. data on the services they
provided and the reimbursement they received from the four companies
are listed in the two tables below.
MMBC receives the best reimbursement for well child visits from
a. lifecare
b. getwell
c. surehealth
d. behealthy
,b. getwell
Make Me Better Clinic (MMBC) provides well child visits and childhood
immunizations for four insurance companies. data on the services they
provided and the reimbursement they received from the four companies
are listed in the two tables below.
Most of the children who are seen at MMBC will have a well child
visit and two immunizations. If you add the reimbursement for two
immunizations to the reimbursement for each well child visit, which
insurance company benefits MMBC most?
a. lifecare
b. getwell
c. surehealth
d. behealthy
b. getwell
You are calculating the fee schedule payment amount for physician
services covered under Medicare Part B. you already have the relative
value unit figure. the only other information you need is
a. the facility's case-mix index
b. a national conversion factor
c. the facility's base rate
d. ms-drg relative weights
b. a national conversion factor
Key west hospital collected the data displaye above concerning its
four highest volume MS-DRGs. which MS-DRG generated the most revenue
for the hospital?
a. MS-DRG A
b. MS-DRG B
c. MS-DRG C
d. MS-DRG D
c. MS-DRG C
In reviewing a health record for coding purposes, the coder notes
that the patient was put on Keflex post-surgery. there is no mention
of a postoperative complication in the attending physician's
discharge summary. before querying the doctor, the coder will seek to
confirm the infection by reviewing the
a. lab report
b. nurses' notes
c. operative report
d. pathology report
a. lab report
stan works in an acute care general hospital, fran works for a
skilled nursing facility, ann is employed at an assisted living
facility, and dan works for a home care provider. which people are
employed in facilities that may seek Joint commission accreditation?
, a. only stan and fran
b. only stan and dan
c. only fran and dan
d. dan, stan, and fran
d. dan, stan, and fran
sunset beach clinic allows patients to communicate by e-mail to ask
questions regarding their treatment and request appointment changes.
e-mails and text messages are
a. considered health care business records and are subject to the
same regulations as records created in face-to-face patient
encounters.
b. considered proof of patient contact and should be summarized in a
progress note in the patient record
c. generally maintained in a facility's electronic mail system until
the next face-to-face patient encounter
d. not typically maintained or documented as patient encounters.
a. considered health care business records and are subject to the
same regulations as records created in face-to-face patient
encounters
the proposed national healthcare information network (NHIN)
dimensions are graphically depicted in the diagram above. roman
numeral are added to allow for the identification of specific areas.
where would information concerning a patient's health insurance be
located on this chart?
a. I
b. II
c. III
d. V
b. II
The facility's policy for physician's verbal orders in accordance
with state law and regulations needs updating. the first area of
investigation is the qualifications of those individuals who have
been authorized to record verbal orders. for this information you
will consult the
a. policy and procedure manual
b. hospital's quality management plan.
c. data dictionary
d. hospital bylaws, rules, and regulations
d. hospital bylaws, rule, and regulations.
Parker has type 1 diabetes with hypertension taht is currently
controlled with medication. parker was admitted through the ED for an
emergency appendectomy. following surgery, the patient developed an
infection at the wound site that was treated with antibiotics. when
making decision about sequencing the codes for this case, the coder