Which of the following BEST defines the Drug Enforcement Agency?
A. The federal law enforcement agency responsible for the identification and control of drug use, abuse, and smuggling in the United States
B. Developed in 1996, a set of guidelines intended to reduce incorrect coding and improper overpayments or underpayments through the identification of codes that may or may not be utilized together or that are medically unlikely
C. The official standardized claim form that must be completed and utilized when submitting any Medicare or Medicaid claim
D. A unique number required by Medicare to identify each individual qualified healthcare provider and each individual healthcare organization; must be used when reporting any healthcare service that has been performed by the individual provider and/or healthcare organization
A
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Use of a gait belt:
a. ensures patient safety. b. is mandated by federal law. c. provides a secure point to control the patient. d. relieves clinician from liability should a patient fall.
When a patient undergoes surgery in the hospital's outpatient surgery department and is subsequently admitted for continuing inpatient care at the same hospital, __________
a. always assign the reason for performing the hospital outpatient surgery as the principal diagnosis b. deny the inpatient hospital admission because outpatient surgery never results in an admission c. if the admitting diagnosis is unrelated to surgery, the principal diagnosis is the reason for surgery d. when the reason for admission is a complication, assign the complication as the principal diagnosis