Medical Ethics
(ANS- Standards of conduct based on moral principals. Acting within ethical behavior boundries means carrying out one's responsibilities with integrity, decency, respect, honesty, competence, fairness an
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Medical Ethics
(ANS- Standards of conduct based on moral principals. Acting within ethical behavior boundries means carrying out one's responsibilities with integrity, decency, respect, honesty, competence, fairness and trust.
Compliance Regulations
(ANS- Most billing related cases are based on HIPAA and the False Claims Act.
HIPAA is an acronym for
(ANS- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
Category 1 CPT codes
(ANS- Medical Procedures.
Category 2 CPT codes
(ANS- Supplemental Codes for Performance Measures.
Category 3 CPT codes
(ANS- Emerging Technologies.
Add on Codes
(ANS- Used for procedures that are always performed during the same operative session, as another surgery in addition to the primary service/procedure and is never performed separately.
Anesthesia is found
(ANS- 00100-01999, 99100-99140.
Evaluation and Management (E&M) codes
(ANS- Are listed first in the CPT manual because they are used by all the different specialties.
Brackets
(ANS- Used to enclose synonyms, alternative wording or and explanatory phrase.
Bullets
(ANS- Represents a new procedure or service code added since the previous edition of the manual.
Chief Complaint (CC)
(ANS- The reason the patient came to see the physician.
Circle with a line through it (?)
(ANS- Exemption from modifier 51.
CPT
(ANS- Used to report services and procedures by physicians.
E&M codes
(ANS- 99201-99499
Guidelines are found
(ANS- At the beginning of each section and used to provide specific coding rules for that section.
History (HX)
(ANS- The set of information the physician gathers from the patient concerning his/her past.
History of Present Illness (HPI)
(ANS- A chronological account of the development of the complaint from the first sign or symptom that the patient experienced to the present.
Indented Codes
(ANS- Listed under associate and stand alone codes.
E Codes
(ANS- For durable medical equipment for use in home.
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