Reimbursement

Ethics in decision making Course: Clinical Practice Roles In this class, we discussed several ethical issues such as end-of-life decision making, advance directives, insurance reimbursement and interdisciplinary conflict. It is always hard to make decision when health care providers encounter ethical issues. There are several principles can guide us in our decision making. For example: Principle-Based Model is one of principle, which include autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, justice,…

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Anemia ICD-9 CM is a code assigned for blood loss anemia. Anemia is a condition where there is a reduction in number of circulating red blood cells. The amount of hemoglobin, or the volume of packed red cells causes a decrease in the ability of blood to deliver oxygen to the body tissues and organs. Blood loss anemia can be classified into two categories which are acute and chronic types of blood loss anemia under these two categories we have various minute categories respectively. Acute Blood…

The patient is the consumer of health care making them also the prime drivers for change in any health care system. It is through their reported HCAHPS satisfaction score that reimbursements are made from Medicaid and Medicare systems. It is these cardiac patients that have the power though their choices of preferred services to change the current used interventional policies. Barriers to being able to accomplish these changes would be the patients lack knowledge that there is a more…

I’m in SNF and some of the diagnoses I will be treating are generalized weakness, balance deficits, and wound care. The therapy department has 8 clinicians: 1 PT, 2 PTAs, 2 OTs, 1 COTA and 2 Speech therapists. There are no support personnel. One of the PTAs is the rehab director and all the clinicians report to him. One thing I found interesting is that every morning we have a 10 minutes meeting during which the director of rehab discuss new admission, update notes , discharges, home assessment…

CAT Scans, ultrasounds, mammograms and regular x-rays are common in the healthcare system. To a patient, these are normal tests that one may experience during their life. However, in the world of medical billing and coding, these are not any regular test. These and other tests completed by the radiology department are coded unlike most treatments. Radiology coding is often billed by technical and professional components. When components are used is when the total cost of service is separated. By…

afford employees in the specific career. Some of the benefits that can be offered include; house and car insurance, retirement plans and pensions, health and lifetime insurance, sick leave, paid vacations, tuition assistance, travel and expense reimbursement among others. Benefits however vary from one company to another. The big companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft…

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After completing the self-assessment tool, one area identified as needed further professional development was incorporating the use of physical agent modalities into my treatment interventions. This was not surprising to learn, as I have always been less comfortable using mechanical and electrotherapeutic modalities due to my lack of extensive training and experience. When I started working as a COTA, I was working in a nursing home where modalities were used infrequently. The combination of…

codes, level of details and specificity. Therefore, measure the impact and tracking changes would be valuable. o Cheryl responded certainly there will be a learning curve, and she hasn’t heard that CMS will forgive bad coding especially for reimbursement. •…