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Use the following key related to status indicators utilized by CMS to answer the question below SI Key: T – A significant procedure with multiple reductions S – significant procedure that is not discounted when multiple procedures occur at the same encounter J2 – packaged APC payment if billed on the same claim as status indicator J1 The patient underwent several procedures during one enounter. They consisted of two procedures with the SI of T, one with the cost of $2500, the other with the cost of $1000. The patient also underwent one procedure at that same encounter with the SI of S which cost $3000. The patient underwent one last procedure with the SI of J2 with a cost of $100. What is the total payment the facility can expect to receive for the services rendered to this patient? 

The target tissue for prolactin is/are the:

Which of the following constituents of the glomerular filtrate is ordinarily almost completely reabsorbed?

An arrhythmia of the heart can be best detected by:

Which of the following case or cases qualifies as surgical within MDC 05 and why? ​ Patient A is treated for an acute myocardial infarction. During the inpatient hospital stay, a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty is performed in the operating room. Patient B is treated for an acute myocardial infarction; testing procedures were performed during the stay.

How are patient diagnoses identified in the Major Diagnostic Categories (MDCs) within the DRG system?

Gastrin increases the secretion of:

The anterior fibrous tunic of the sclera is highly modified to form a transparent area of the eye know as the:

One of the endocrine glands develops withing the sympathetic nervous sysstem during embryological development. Considering your knowledge of function, this endocrine gland is the:

Instructions Analyze the provided image and answer the questions that follow. Source Poster for the film Space Is the Place, c. 1974 Space is the Place by North American Star System, 1974. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. CC.0.  Text along the top edge reads “A North American Star System Production.” Next, larger letters across the middle read “Sun Ra” and, curving along the bottom, “in Space Is the Place.” In the top half, the heads and bodies of six African American people have been cut from black and white photographs and layered against a starry, celestial-blue sky peppered with musical notes. Two women and one man dance, another sings, a doctor pulls on a glove, and the sixth wears a helmet and gestures with arms outstretched. In the bottom center of the lower half is the darkly shaded face of another African American man wearing a pharaoh’s headdress and chest piece. Atop the headdress has a gold orb the same size as the man’s head settled in the bottom curve of a tall, narrow U shape. He looks steadily out at us with his head slightly tipped back. Red sunbursts curve in from each side, and the bottom edge of the design is lined with tiny palm trees, pyramids, and an observatory. Text along the bottom edge of the poster reads, “with Ray Johnson, Christopher Brooks, Barbara Deloney, Erika Leder, Morgan Upton, Walter Burns, John Bailey, Clarence Brewer, Sinthia Ayala, La Shaa Stallings, and the Intergalactic Myth-Science Solar Arkestra featuring John Gilmore and June Tyson. Screenplay by Joshua Smith, Produced by James Newman, Directed by John Coney, A Film from North American Star System in Cooperation with El Saturn Research.”