What are the differences between diagnostic and procedural coding? What are some of the similarities? What is the name of the major coding system for each? Why is it important to use the correct codes when processing claims?
An important part of determining the level of evaluation and management services provided to a patient can be based on the key components and contributing factors. Explain each part of the key components and the contributing factors and give an example of a way to measure each. For example, history is one part of the key compon
What is CF? Basic history, background, etc.
You are a medical assistant in a family practice office. While working, you receive a call from a mother, whose 18-year-old daughter is a patient at your office. The woman said her daughter had not been feeling well and saw the doctor yesterday but did not share any of the information she received from the doctor. The woman h
You have set up a process for doing chart audits and discovered some areas in need of improvement, so now you need to focus on what to do with the results. Instructions What are some things to consider in regards to what action could be taken based on results from chart audits? Do the results need to be shared with accredi
A primary care physician and her partner, who have just opened their practice, newly employ you as a medical assistant. You have been asked by one of the physicians to set up a process for doing chart audits. You know that one component of chart audits is to determine what is to be audited and the criteria for that audit. Di
What are the techniques for storing and maintaining paper-based records when medical office transitions some of its paper-based medical records to a computer-based system? How would accessibility be affected to medical records during the transition?
Considering the definition of a system. Does anyone believe that the healthcare in the U.S. is a system or not? Any help would be appreciated.
Details: You worked for a number of years in the office of a family physician who has just retired. You have now taken a position on a busy surgical floor of a local, acute-care hospital. You frequently hear references to JCAHO requirements for documenting a patient's pain assessment and treatment, documenting medication ad
You work in the medical office of an OB/GYN. A new patient has made her first appointment stating that she believes she is about six weeks pregnant, and this will be her second child. She has recently moved to the area and says she has some medical records from her other obstetricianâ??s office with her. She mentioned she had s
Give a brief explanation as to what an Electronic Health Record is. What information is included in an Electronic Health Record? Briefly describe some advantages and disadvantages to using Electronic Health Records in a medical office. Research an example of a medical office incorporating Electronic Health Records. How
Describe your professional leadership development plan and describes your action plan for the next five years. It should become part of your professional portfolio.
What would be a value chain activity in a hospital or health care organization? Where would you need to ensure connection activities for your value chain to be successful? Explain.
Once you have read the article, visit the PBS website about Kennewick man, focusing on the scientists' claims (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/first/claim.html) and on the processes used to reconstruct a very lifelike model of Kennewick Man (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/first/kennewick.html). Then, do some research of your own into
Select a local medical service organization and describe how they have specifically improved their operating margins.
What issues need to be taken into consideration in determining which is the lowest cost alternative in capital budgeting?
Identify 4 requirements for documenting each of the following: a patient's pain assessment and treatment medication administration verbal telephone orders
You frequently hear references to JCAHO requirements for documenting a patient's pain assessment and treatment, documenting medication administration, or documenting verbal telephone orders. a patient's pain assessment and treatment medication administration verbal telephone orders What is your opinion on JCAHO's role rega
Discuss in detail, older adult patient education issues and the influence patient education has in health care using the experiences this patients following interview. 1. Did a patient education representative give you instructions on how to care for yourself after your illness or operation? Yes he did. After my total knee
What are the various indicators of neoplasm behavior? Which of these behaviors takes precedence and why? What example would you pose to demonstrate this?
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What are some possible student health and safety issues? What is the teachers role in identifying and assessing these issues?
Maternal smoking during pregnancy has been implicated in various problems with infant health. Based on what you learn, develop a research question on the health of babies born to smoking versus non-smoking mothers and devise a testable hypothesis related to this health issue. List as many problems as you can identify and anticip
I would like help in writing a paper on Development of Personal Value talk about personal values challenged and tie into pre-conventional and post conventional include when value changed and when change strengthen.
Why and how do tax laws influence alliances and partnership choices?
Describe where CCRCs and SNFs lie on a continuum of care that includes a local physician's office on one end and hospice on the other end. Use examples of facilities offered.
Can you discuss in detail about if you were a patient in a healthcare faciliy how reasonable is it to expect everyone working in that facility to show "radical loving care"? Would it make the healthcare system in general better or worse?
Hello, I need some help with some Pharmacy Math Calculations: 1. A physician orders an IV of Cefazolin (Ancef) 1g/50mL, IVPB q6h. The infusion can be given in 20 minutes. What rate will you set on the IV pump (mL/min)?_____________________ 2. An IV infusion order is written for 0.3 L of D5W/0.45% NS to run over 12 hours.
You are taking part in a World AIDS Day Federal Conference Call for Federal Grantees and Staff. This is your chance to ask questions about global and domestic Federal HIV/AIDS programs, and a chance to ask representatives from (HHS, Office of HIV/AIDS Policy, CDC, NIH/HRSA, SAMHSA, and others about Federal HIV/AIDS programs:
There is considerable discussion of whether or not legal and legislative processes have had a positive or negative impact on health care delivery at local, state, and national levels. What do you think?