What is the name for the entity that is financially responsible for the account?
What will be an ideal response?
Guarantor
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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. The period of time included in the surgical package is determined by each individual third-party payer. 2. Supplies and materials usually included with the office visit can be billed separately. 3. When contrast materials are administered orally for radiological services, the coder should look for the term "without contrast" for the correct code. 4. Codes for services provided by an occupational therapist would be found in the Medicine section of the CPT code book. 5. An add-on code can be reported as a stand-alone code if the procedure was performed during a separate encounter.
Explain why healthcare reform is dependent on health informatics.
What will be an ideal response?
Your patient is a 68-year-old female who is being treated for colon cancer. She is conscious and alert, in mild distress, and complaining of progressive weakness over the past three days. Palpation of her abdomen reveals tenderness to the lower right quadrant. Her skin is pale, cool, and dry, and you note the smell and appearance of melena in her stool. HR = 108, BP = 100/60, RR = 12, SaO2 = 97%
Proper treatment of this patient might include: A) IV of normal saline with a 250 mL fluid challenge, repeated if necessary. B) IV of 5 percent dextrose solution at 30 mL per hour. C) two large-bore IVs of lactated Ringer's solution, wide open. D) two large-bore IVs of normal saline, 20 mL/kg fluid bolus.
Infants who have Tetralogy of Fallot can have ____, in which the infant becomes suddenly cyanotic and has a syncopal episode.
A. hyperglycemic episodes B. generalized seizures C. gastroenteritis D. TET spells