Your patient, a known alcoholic, has developed a cardiac arrhythmia that you intend to treat with synchronized cardioversion. Because he is awake, you decide to administer diazepam to ease this experience. However, you find that to induce the desired state you must administer more than twice the normal dose of diazepam. This condition is known as:

An accident causes loss of part of the nail and shearing of the nail bed of the great toe on the left foot. Repair of this nail bed is necessary to save the toe. This procedure would be coded to which code?

A) 86.75 B) 86.67 C) 86.86 D) 86.65

All of the following are ways to avoid malpractice litigation EXCEPT:

A. regularly participating in continuing education programs. B. obtaining consent for the collection of blood specimens. C. disposing of laboratory tests in the regular trash. D. properly handling all HIPAA communications without violation.