chapter 1-3: OST-248 Practice Questions and Answers
By communicating using codes rather than word, you can
successfully conveyed to others involved __________. - Answer✔️✔️-
exactly what happened during a provider patient encounter and
why it occurred
Requiring medical necessity ensures that health care providers are -
Answer✔️✔️-not performing test or giving injections without a good
medical reason
What are some of the uses that research organizations and
government agencies use statistical data from codes? - Answer✔️✔️-
developing programs, identifying research areas, allocating funds
Who are the three parties involved in virtually every encounter? -
Answer✔️✔️-The health care provider, the patient, and the insurance
company
Diagnostic descriptions in the alphabetic index of ICD-10-CM are
listed by - Answer✔️✔️-eponym, condition
What must administrators and managers ensure are used in the
most efficient and effective manner whether in one-physician offices
or large hospitals? - Answer✔️✔️-resources
What is the appropriate location for the period between code
characters? - Answer✔️✔️-third and fourth characters
The purpose of using health care coding languages is to enable the
________ of information, in a specific and efficient way, between all
those involved in health care. - Answer✔️✔️-Sharing
If another physician or health care provider referred a patient for a
consultation, what source document is that information found on? -
Answer✔️✔️-Referring authorization form
Coding professionals use the physicians _________ or _________ to
assign ICD-10-CM codes describing why the patient was seen -
Answer✔️✔️-As a coding specialist, it is your job to translate this
explanation and to a diagnosis code so that everyone involved will
clearly understand the issues of a particular patient and a
particular time
Which of the following providers would code for radiology imaging? -
Answer✔️✔️-Radiologist
What code explain why the individual king to see the physician and
support the physician's decision about what procedures to provide?
- Answer✔️✔️-Diagnosis
What is the term for reading the entire patient record and pulling
out the details necessary for determining the correct codes? -
Answer✔️✔️-abstracting
What is the alphabetic index in The ICD- 10-CM code book also
known as? - Answer✔️✔️-Index to diseases and injuries
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