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The use of the outpatient code editor (OCE) is designed to: - ✔✔-Identify incomplete or incorrect claims
Medicare's identification of medically necessary
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CCS Exam Prep, Questions and
answers, 100% Accurate, rated A+
The use of the outpatient code editor (OCE) is designed to: - ✔✔-Identify incomplete or incorrect claims
Medicare's identification of medically necessary services is outlined in: - ✔✔-Local coverage
determinations
National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) are released how often? - ✔✔-Quarterly
In 2000, the CMS issued the final rule on the outpatient prospective payment system. The final rule: -
✔✔-Divided outpatient services into fixed payment groups
DRG's and ambulatory patient classifications are similar in that they are both: - ✔✔-Prospective
payment systems
Medicare exerts control of provider reimbursement through adjustment of this component of the
resource-based relative value scale - ✔✔-Conversion factor
The process of collecting data elements from a source document is known as: - ✔✔-Abstracting
What piece of claims data from Hospital A alerts a payer that the patient was transferred to Hospital B? -
✔✔-Discharge disposition
Which of the following is considered a complication or comorbidity? - ✔✔-Hypernatremia
Multiple choice queries must supply how many choices in order to be compliant? - ✔✔-No specific
number
Compliant queries include which of the following? - ✔✔-Relevant clinical indicators
Authentication of health record entries means to: - ✔✔-Prove authorship of documents
The requirements for documentation and record completion (such as H&P's, discharge summaries, and
consultations) as well as penalties for non-adherence must be specified in: - ✔✔-Medical staff bylaws
Generally, data quality is defined as: - ✔✔-Ensuring the accuracy and completeness of an organization's
data
The Joint Commission considers management that supports decision making to be important for safety
and quality. What kind of management supports decision making? - ✔✔-
Which type of conditions are always considered present on admission? - ✔✔-Congenital
A patient is admitted for seizures. What is the appropriate POA for the external cause code of W06.XXA
assigned because the patient fell out of bed during a seizure in the ER? - ✔✔-Y
The outpatient code editor (OCE) has all of the following types of edits except: - ✔✔-Valid diagnosis
code edits
Determining medical necessity for outpatient services include all of the following except: - ✔✔-
Requiring new HCPCS codes be developed to replace codes in the CPT code book
The National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Edits apply to services billed by: - ✔✔-The same provider,
for same beneficiary, on same date of service
If the principle diagnosis is an initial anterior wall myocardial infarction, which procedure will result in
the highest MS-DRG assignment? - ✔✔-Transbronchial lung biopsy
Medicare payment to physicians for services rendered is made under the: - ✔✔-Resource-based Relative
Value Scale
Inpatient procedures are coded with - ✔✔-ICD-10-PCS
Under the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS), what can be used to measure the cost of care
for inpatients? - ✔✔-Case-mix index
The abstracting of this data element has an impact on the DRG reimbursement: - ✔✔-Discharge
disposition
Which of the following is a data element that coders typically are tasked with abstracting? - ✔✔-Date of
surgery
When a patient goes home with an order for home health to start one week after inpatient admission,
this is categorized as a(n): - ✔✔-discharge
A patient is admitted with an acute inferior myocardial infarction and discharged alive. Which condition
would increase the MS-DRG weight? - ✔✔-Respiratory failure
A female patient is diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Which of the following will increase the MSDRG weight if present on admission? - ✔✔-State III pressure ulcer of coccyx
Major complications and comorbidities (MCCs) are determined to require the greatest degree of
resources with a payment group and also reflect the greatest: - ✔✔-SOI (Severity of Illness)
SOI - ✔✔-Severity of Illness
ROM - ✔✔-risk of mortality
ROI - ✔✔-release of information
SNF - ✔✔-Skilled nursing facility
Which of the following diagnoses qualifies as MCC? - ✔✔-Type 2 myoca
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