What is the abbreviation for the "national provider initiative"?
A. NPP
B. MUE
C. NPI
D. NCCI
C
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You are a new EMT in a very busy urban EMS system. Before joining this agency, you worked as a volunteer in a rural EMS system, where you did not experience many EMS calls. You are working with a seasoned EMT when you are requested to respond to a residential home for an unresponsive 13-year-old male patient. Upon your arrival, the family escorts you into the garage, where the boy is being cradled by his crying mother. The boy is unresponsive. As you draw nearer to the boy, your partner says to you, "Hey, you smell that moth ball smell? I know what might be going on." Given your partner's statement, how might the odor be related to the patient's condition?
A) Chloral hydrate overdose B) Camphor overdose C) Organophosphate overdose D) Acetone overdose
A(n) ________ is a financial incentive provided by another physician, laboratory, hospital, or pharmaceutical representative for using their services.
A. professional incentive B. kickback C. upgrade D. upcode
Procedure and diagnostic codes should be appropriate to the patient's:
A) age. B) gender. C) health condition. D) all of the above.
Earwax is known as ________
A. cerumen C. cholesteatoma B. keratin D. epistaxis