Describe patients' rights to be provided by insurance companies as defined by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
What will be an ideal response?
Under the PPACA, insurance companies must cover children up to age 26 on their parents' health insurance policy. Insurance companies must also phase out annual and lifetime limits to coverage, no longer limit or deny coverage to patients under 19 with preexisting conditions, phase out arbitrary withdrawals of insurance coverage, and remove insurance company barriers to emergency service. There are additional privacy rights contained in the PPACA.
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A facial developmental cleft occurring to the right of the philtrum of soft tissue of the lip that extends through the alveolar bone to the nasopalatine canal could be classified as _____ cleft of the _____
a. Incomplete; palate b. Incomplete; lip c. Complete; palate d. Complete; lip e. Combined; lip and palate
The ICD-9-M is used to:
a. restore and retrieve patient data. b. classify patients. c. diagnose diseases. d. organize insurance claims.
Place the steps of a composite procedure in order
1 . Cavity prep 2 . Select shade 3 . Place etching agent 4 . Place bonding agent 5 . Finishing/polishing 6 . Place composite material a. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 b. 1, 3, 4, 2, 6, 5 c. 2, 1, 3, 4, 6, 5 d. 2, 1, 4, 3, 6, 5
Which of the following skills/tasks is/are necessary for the compilation and processing of data for registry use?
A. Coding B. Confidentiality C. Abstracting D. All of these