An audit should be conducted at least how often by a designated staff member or outside consultant?
A. Every six months
B. Once per year
C. Once every two years
D. Once every five years
Answer: B
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Which of the following statements concerning a patient who received electrical burns to his hand after grabbing a live wire is true?
a. The burning will continue for hours, perhaps days. b. The patient will remain an electrocution hazard to rescuers for several minutes after being removed from the source of electricity. c. The extent of tissue damage may be much greater than it appears on the surface. d. Inhalation of gases is dangerous.
Which of the following is NOT true about using GEMs to assign codes for patient encounters?
a. Doing so would be misuse of data. b. There are very few exact one-to-one matches between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10- CM. c. Forward mapping is taking ICD-10-CM codes and mapping them to the corresponding ICD-9-CM codes. d. The GEMs were developed by CMS and the CDC.
A ____________________ is defined as a confederacy between two or more persons for the purpose of committing an unlawful or criminal act
a. robbery b. conspiracy c. larceny d. murder
Once the provider has created a patient instruction sheet, what option does the provider have to get the document to the patient?
A. Patients can only receive this information verbally. B. E-mail patient instruction sheet only. C. Print patient instruction sheet only. D. The patient may receive a printed copy or instructions via e-mail.