Why is it important for the purposes of inpatient billing to properly code the primary and secondary diagnoses for a patient?
A) These codes protect the facility from liability in the event of misdiagnosis.
B) These codes are an internationally recognized system of codifying patient conditions.
C) These codes can be used in statistical studies of causes of death, disease, and injury.
D) These codes determine the Medical Severity Diagnostic Related Group.
D
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Which of the following is true of gestational surrogacy?
A) An egg is removed from a donor mother and fertilized with the sperm from a donor father. B) The child is genetically not related to the surrogate mother. C) A surrogate mother is artificially inseminated and carries the baby to term. D) The child is genetically related to the surrogate mother as well as the donor father.
Maternal infections during the first ________ weeks of pregnancy may cause visual abnormalities, such as strabismus, as well as sensorineural deafness and other congenital ear problems in the developing child
a. one or two b. three or four c. five or six d. seven or eight