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A clinical repository _____________________.

Your organization has a physician who performs total anterior lumbar arthroplasty with artificial discs on an outpatient basis. Unfortunately, after several procedures have been performed and billed, you get a memo from the business office stating that there are denials for Medicare patients. The billing manager states that the reason given is status indicator C. She would like you to review the CPT code assignment(s) and help resolve the problem because the charges for these procedures exceed $65,000 per case.After reviewing the cases, you find that the correct CPT code is assigned:*22857–Total disc arthroplasty (artificial disc), anterior approach, including discectomy to prepare interspace (other than for decompression), single interspace, lumbar * denotes a status indicator of C for that CPT code. What is status indicator C?

As HIM director for a critical access hospital (CAH), you track the facility’s average length of stay (ALOS). This is vital information since CMS requires that a CAH have an annual average length of stay of 96 hours or less per patient.

A data warehouse is ______________________________.

To calculate the LOS by the patient: Subtract the admission date from the discharge date (if in the same month) Add days when the admission extends into another month Add LOS days together to determine the overall total  

The nurse is caring for a telemetry patient and identifies the patient’s ECG rhythm as:

Which is the priority interventions after an emergency abdominal aortic aneurysm repair?

Second- or third-degree burns that cover more than 50% of the body would be classified under what stage of triage?

The order is for Vasotec 1.25mg IV now. It comes in a 50mL bag of NS. At what rate will you set the pump to deliver the medication in 10 minutes? [QUES_4210328_4421793_A15679758] mL/h answer in whole numbers only

An unresponsive 79-yr-old patient is admitted to the emergency department (ED) during a summer heat wave. The patient’s core temperature is 105.4° F (40.8° C), blood pressure (BP) is 88/50 mm Hg, and pulse is 112 beats/min. The nurse will first plan to