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HC255 IPPS Class

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What is the Outpatient Prospective Payment System pricing unit that is comparable to DRGs for inpatient services?   ambulatory payment classification (APC)  
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What are the three types of CCI edits?   Column 1/Column 2 Code Pair Edits Mutually Exclusive Edits Medically Unlikely Edits  
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What is the difference between fraud and abuse?   Fraud is an intentional act of deception to take advantage of another person. Abuse is an action of misusing government allocated money; it is not necessarily intentional.  
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What is a compliance plan?   a process for finding, correcting, and preventing illegal practices  
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MDC is an abbreviation for   major diagnostic categories  
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A software program used to assign DRGs   MS Grouper  
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Conditions that develop as problems related to surgery or other treatments   complications  
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Average of the DRG weights for all discharged patients during a certain time period is a hospital’s   case mix index (CMI)  
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MCE is the abbreviation for:   Medicare Code Editor  
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Medicare’s national policy on correct CPT coding   Correct Coding Initiative (CCI)  
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Identification of services that could not have reasonably been done during a single patient encounter:   CCI mutually exclusive edits  
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Programs that align financial incentives with the delivery of high-quality care:   pay-for-performance programs  
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