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LTC Chapter 1 Set 4
Learning to Code with ICD-9-CM 2010, Thomas J. Falen, Introduction to ICD-9-CM coding
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11/26/2010

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Term
Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups
Definition
What does MS-DRG stand for?
Term
MS-DRG
Definition
For the 2008 FY, the DRG system was refined to the _____ system
Term
October 1; September 30
Definition
Federal fiscal years begin on _______ and end on ______.
Term
major complication or comorbidity
Definition
What does MCC stand for?
Term
regular complication or comorbidity
Definition
What does C/C stand for?
Term
MS-DRGs
Definition
______ established a new three-tiered payment system for DRGs that distinguished between a MCC, C/C, or no complication or comorbidity.
Term
complication
Definition
After admission, the patient develops a catheter-associated UTI.  This is an example of a ___________.
Term
comorbidity
Definition
A patient was admitted for pneumonia with pre-existing chronic systolic left heart failure.  This is an example of a ________.
Term
True
Definition
T or F: MS-DRGs payment rates to hospitals are affected depending on where a patient is discharged to (home, nursing home, etc.)
Term
MS-DRGs
Definition
_________ represent classifications of diagnoses in which patients with similar conditions within the same group will consume similar types and amounts of hospital resources
Term
True
Definition
T or F: Payment systems will be linked on positive patient outcomes for their severity of illness level
Term
grouper
Definition
a software application that assigns MS-DRGs.
Term
base rate
Definition
What a relative weight is multiplied against; it reflects individual hospital monetary adjustment factors for geographic status
Term
False
Definition
T or F: A hospital's location will not affect its reimbursement rate
Term

False

 

MS-DRGs control provider's ways of utilizing resources by setting limits

Definition
T or F: MS-DRGs tell providers how to practice medicine
Term
True
Definition
T or F: Coding is used to determine and plan for the types of services that are needed within communities
Term
True
Definition
T or F: Coding can help develop and implement local, state, and national health care policy (such as cessation of smoking) and to determine mechanisms to contain health-care costs
Term
True
Definition
T or F: Coding ensures disease management through various health-care settings (i.e. a patient's information will follow them from a doctor's office to a hospital).
Term
Federal Register
Definition
a daily publication of the federal government that contains proposed rules, public notices, and federal agency regulations--as well as each year's new and revised codes
Term
alphabetical index, tabular
Definition
A coder must look up a disease or procedure in the ________ and then numerically in the ________ section
Term

False

 

A coder should code to the highest level of specificity

Definition
T or F: A coder should always code to the lowest level of specificity
Term
f
Definition

What codes have the highest level of specificity?

a) two digit

b) three digit

c) four digit

d) five digit

e) all of the above

f) c for procedures, and d for diseases

Term
category
Definition
Three digit codes are ______ codes.
Term
subcategory
Definition
Four digit codes are _______ codes
Term
subclassification
Definition
Five digit codes are _________ codes.
Term
When they are not further subdivided
Definition
When are three digit codes assigned?
Term
2
Definition
The Alphabetic Index to External Causes of Injury and the Table of Drugs and Chemicals are  found in volume ___.
Term

False

 

Definition
T or F: V codes cannot be used as a principal diagnosis
Term
V58.11
Definition

CODE

 

Admission for chemotherapy

Term
reason for contact with health services
Definition
V codes are used as a principal diagnosis when describing ___________.
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