CPT coding offers the uniformed language used for reporting medical services and procedures performed by physician and nonphysician practitioners. Clinicians are paid based on calculated resource costs that are calculated based on practice components
Which of the following are part of the components used to calculate the per CPT code payment rate?
a. Clinician education loans
b. Clinician practice liability and malpractice expense
c. Clinician reported cost reduction efforts
d. Clinician volume of patients treated
ANS: B
You might also like to view...
You are assigning tasks to nursing assistants in a nursing home. Which would be the most appropriate instruction to give to the assistant who will care for Mrs. Scott, a frail 80-year-old woman with arthritis?
a. Tell the NA to give her a bed bath, comb her hair, and brush her teeth b. Tell the NA to help her use a bedpan c. Tell the NA to "let her do as much as she can for herself," such as brushing her teeth, combing her hair, and walking to the bathroom with assistance d. Tell the NA to be sure to bring Mrs. Scott's meal trays to her bed each day
Strong problem-solving skills can improve a person's physical and mental health
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The nurse learns that a client is married and has no children living at home. Which type of family should the nurse document for this client?
1. Extended. 2. Nuclear. 3. Childless. 4. Blended.
The nurse is doing discharge teaching with a patient who has a C6 spinal cord injury and their family. A family member asks why autonomic dysreflexia is considered an emergency. What would be the nurse's best answer?
A) "The sudden increase in blood pressure can raise the ICP or rupture a cerebral blood vessel." B) "The suddenness of the onset of the syndrome tells us the body is struggling to maintain its norm." C) "Spinal cord patients cannot maintain their neurologic responses and bring their body back to its normal state." D) "The sudden, severe headache can create enough stress in the body cause problems."