A 7-year-old with Trisomy 21 presents for a routine health m…

A 7-year-old with Trisomy 21 presents for a routine health maintenance visit. He is in second grade with an individualized education plan. His parents have questions about surveillance. Which combination of health maintenance measures is most appropriate at this visit?

An EMT crew is dispatched to a long-term care facility to tr…

An EMT crew is dispatched to a long-term care facility to transport an 84-year-old patient to the emergency department for evaluation of an acute medical complaint. To ensure proper reimbursement from Medicare or Medicaid, the EMTs must document on the Patient Care Report (PCR) that ambulance transport was medically necessary—meaning it would have been unsafe or impossible to transport the patient by any other means. Which of the following clinical documentation entries provides the required objective evidence that a patient meets the definition of being “bed-confined” for medical necessity reimbursement?