Discuss the linkage between certain revenue codes and either HCPCS codes or ICD-9-CM codes.
What will be an ideal response?
Revenue codes associated with specific services will require specific diagnosis or procedure code assignments. If a revenue code indicates pulmonary services were provided and the diagnosis indicates the patient's problem was an ankle sprain, there is no connection between the two. Edits will result.
You might also like to view...
A confused and cyanotic patient is breathing 8 times per minute with poor chest rise and fall. Which instruction would you give your partner about the respiratory care of this patient?
A) "Deliver a ventilation with the bag-valve mask only when he breathes." B) "Ventilate him at 10 times per minute." C) "Ventilate him with the bag-valve mask in between each of his breaths." D) "Since he is breathing, let's go ahead and put him on a nonrebreather mask with 15 lpm of oxygen."
The medical assistant performing a venipuncture for a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) test must ________.
A. wash hands thoroughly B. maintain temperature at a certain level C. tell the patient to fast for 8 hours prior D. take the blood sample while the patient is lying down